Pilot Corp. Suspected of Fraud in Diesel Rebates, FBI Agent Says
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Pilot Corp., the truck stop service business whose headquarters was searched by the FBI on April 15, is suspected of withholding diesel fuel price rebates and discounts from customers to boost profits, according to a court document.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Robert H. Root, in a 120-page affidavit unsealed yesterday by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Bruce Guyton in Knoxville, Tennessee, told the court probable cause existed to search the headquarters in that city and other premises for evidence of a “conspiracy and scheme to defraud executed by various Pilot employees to deceptively withhold diesel fuel rebates and discounts from pilot customers.”