ESPN Mike & Mike Today 11/21/2016 - Do Cleveland Browns have a coherent rebuilding plan?
Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has been subpoenaed to appear in a videotaped deposition in a civil lawsuit against his family business in Tennessee.
Haslam, CEO of the Pilot Flying J truck-stop chain, is scheduled to appear at the deposition in Knoxville, Tenn., on Dec. 13 to answer questions by lawyers involved in the lawsuit filed over diesel fuel rebate fraud.
The business is owned by the family of Haslam and his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam. A court notice was filed Friday in Franklin County, Ohio, for Jimmy Haslam to appear at the deposition.
The lawsuit was filed by companies that declined to participate in an $85 million settlement between Pilot Flying J and 5,500 trucking companies. Pilot also paid a $92 million federal penalty to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Haslam has denied any knowledge of the fraud and has not been charged. The company"s board of directors has admitted legal responsibility for the fraud.
In April 2013, the FBI and IRS agents raided Pilot"s corporate headquarters in Knoxville and seized company records.
Haslam bought the Browns for just over $1 billion in 2012.
Source: http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/NFL/2016/11/19/Cleveland-Browns-owner-Jimmy-Haslam-subpoenaed-for-deposition-in-lawsuit/2731479583370/
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