With the clock ticking on his fate in a scheme to rip off trucking companies, former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood wants to ditch a Texas law firm with a roster of celebrity clients and tap a Knoxville attorney instead, court records show.
Attorney Brad Henry on Monday filed a motion in U.S. District Court on behalf of Hazelwood, seeking permission to take over the ex-president's defense.
Hazelwood faces sentencing before U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier in August for both heading up a band of thieving sales executives at the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer and pushing them to think bigger in their defrauding of Pilot Flying J's trucking customers.
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