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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 3, 2021

Federal officials say they will retry former Pilot Flying J president Mark Hazelwood and two co-defendants next February, Chattanoogan.com reports. The announcement comes after an appeals court threw out their convictions in a fraud case that lasted for months. The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals voted to void the convictions based on the fact that a jury was allowed to hear an inflammatory tape that included racist remarks by Hazelwood. Jury selection will begin on Feb. 1, 2022, at the federal courthouse in Chattanooga. The three company executives were originally charged in 2013 in a scheme to cheat trucking companies out of promised rebates.