Report: Browns' Owner Heard On Secret Recording Discussing Fraud

 While Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has been mentioned by others multiple times in the ongoing trial of former Pilot Flying J executives, Tuesday marked the first time his voice was heard on tape in court discussing the massive rebate fraud scheme for which so many sales people and executives have been accused, and pleaded guilty.

In a Facebook post (above) Jamie Satterfield with the Knoxville News Sentinel described the secret FBI recording, in which Haslam can be heard discussing the scam with former Pilot Flying J president Mark Hazelwood.  "It was detailed how you commit fraud at one of the sessions. It's not clear from this recording exactly which session that Jimmy Haslam was in, but as Mark Hazelwood was discussing a move to expand to get more business from smaller trucking companies, and he was describing a competitor's situation and saying that the competitor would offer a discount to these smaller trucking companies and that Pilot would be able to undercut them, but not pay them the full amount that they promised." 

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