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Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam knew about sales scheme: former Pilot exec

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  • When the FBI opens an investigation into you or your company, you are in a world of Sheet.

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
    #23

    I other news... water is wet.

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    When the FBI opens an investigation into you or your company, you are in a world of Sheet.

    Unless of course you are making America great again?

  • jrb12711J jrb12711 wrote on last edited by
    #24

    Eh, while I could easily believe he knew I could also easily believe he didn't. One guy very much trying to save his butt from the feds saying he knew doesn't sway me one way or the other.

    The simple truth is that while you're responsible for a company you lead, your hands as a CEO aren't in every cookie jar. 

  • D domcucch1994 wrote on last edited by
    #25

    Good.

    Let this man surrender the team to the league because he is a shitty owner who can't hire successful men to put this team into playoff contention..

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Dumb hillbilly was bringing a knife to a gunfight.

    As someone whose family one way or another has been involved in trucking since the 40s, when my grandfather started his trucking business, Haslam can rot in a jail cell. 

    I've just been reading more on this. Try this number. $450,000a month is what they were defrauding truckers out of on their fuel.  And emails were sent from execs to Jimmy StupidShmuckinghillbilly informing him.  If he loves the analytics he set in place for the Browns, I wonder what he'll think of the analprobing he can get in the federal lockup.BBC anyone? 

    DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
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    @flyingfooldoug said:

    I've just been reading more on this. Try this number. $450,000a month is what they were defrauding truckers out of on their fuel.  And emails were sent from execs to Jimmy StupidShmuckinghillbilly informing him.  If he loves the analytics he set in place for the Browns, I wonder what he'll think of the analprobing he can get in the federal lockup.BBC anyone? 

    They put people like Haslam in a Federal Prison Camp.  He would never go to a maximum security prison.  

  • I other news... water is wet.

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    When the FBI opens an investigation into you or your company, you are in a world of Sheet.

    Unless of course you are making America great again?

    DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
    #27

    @tour2ma said:

    I other news... water is wet.

    Unless of course you are making America great again?

    Big difference.  The FBI doesn't work for Haslam.

  • Eh, while I could easily believe he knew I could also easily believe he didn't. One guy very much trying to save his butt from the feds saying he knew doesn't sway me one way or the other.

    The simple truth is that while you're responsible for a company you lead, your hands as a CEO aren't in every cookie jar. 

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
    #28

    @jrb12711 said:

    The simple truth is that while you're responsible for a company you lead, your hands as a CEO aren't in every cookie jar. 

    While true this was a company wide program with major implications for the bottom line meaning costs projections were done. While I grant you that upside surprises garner less scrutiny than shortfalls, the less-than-expected cost of this program would be apparent to any engaged CEO.

    If Jimmah dis not know, then it was because he was he either did not want to know or simply was curious enough.

  • @tour2ma said:

    I other news... water is wet.

    Unless of course you are making America great again?

    Big difference.  The FBI doesn't work for Haslam.

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Big difference.  The FBI doesn't work for Haslam.

    And historically the FBI doesn't "work" for the President.

  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
    #30

    Well, the FBI director does.  Ask Comey.

  • When the FBI opens an investigation into you or your company, you are in a world of Sheet.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    When the FBI opens an investigation into you or your company, you are in a world of Sheet.

    They did that....and he has scraped by.  I doubt any testimony of this nature will change that status.

  • Good.

    Let this man surrender the team to the league because he is a shitty owner who can't hire successful men to put this team into playoff contention..

    nickersN nickers wrote on last edited by nickers
    #32

    @domcucch1994 said:

    Good.

    Let this man surrender the team to the league because he is a shitty owner who can't hire successful men to put this team into playoff contention..

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

  • Well, the FBI director does.  Ask Comey.

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Well, the FBI director does.  Ask Comey.

    Pretty sure that's a bad example... on many levels.

  • "The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the jury in the federal fraud trial of former Pilot Flying J executives and sales representatives heard a recording of former vice president John "Stick" Freeman saying Haslam was aware of the scheme to deprive trucking customers of the diesel discounts they had negotiated.

    In Freeman's words: "He knew — absolutely."

    This is a recording of "hearsay evidence" not a recording of Jimmy himself. It means absolutely nothing in a court of law unless witnesses in Jimmy's trial attest that he "knew everything". You'd think one or more who knew would have turned on him in a plea bargain by now.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @texasag1969 said:

    "The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the jury in the federal fraud trial of former Pilot Flying J executives and sales representatives heard a recording of former vice president John "Stick" Freeman saying Haslam was aware of the scheme to deprive trucking customers of the diesel discounts they had negotiated.

    In Freeman's words: "He knew — absolutely."

    This is a recording of "hearsay evidence" not a recording of Jimmy himself. It means absolutely nothing in a court of law unless witnesses in Jimmy's trial attest that he "knew everything". You'd think one or more who knew would have turned on him in a plea bargain by now.

    I would not call that statement hearsay.  Hearsay would be:  " I John Freeman heard  from Mr. Daffy Duck that Jimmy Haslam told Daffy Duck to rip off truckers". 

    If John Freeman said:  Jimmy Haslam told me to rip off truckers.....that is not hearsay.

  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on last edited by
    #35

    Pretty sure it's not 'homey'.😁

  • @domcucch1994 said:

    Good.

    Let this man surrender the team to the league because he is a shitty owner who can't hire successful men to put this team into playoff contention..

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

    Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by
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    @nickers said:

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

    Pretty sure the last (and only?) woman to own an NFL franchise won a SB.

    Just sayin'...

  • Tour2maT Tour2ma wrote on last edited by Tour2ma
    #37

    Two "pretty sures" in a row? By different posters? On different topics?

    Must be the Parma water factor...

  • @tour2ma said:

    I other news... water is wet.

    Unless of course you are making America great again?

    Big difference.  The FBI doesn't work for Haslam.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Big difference.  The FBI doesn't work for Haslam.

    Right....Haslam cannot obstruct an investigation into himself by the FBI.

  • @domcucch1994 said:

    Good.

    Let this man surrender the team to the league because he is a shitty owner who can't hire successful men to put this team into playoff contention..

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
    #39

    @nickers said:

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

    Don't forget the involvement of the son  (or was that son-in-law?)

  • @texasag1969 said:

    "The Knoxville News Sentinel reports the jury in the federal fraud trial of former Pilot Flying J executives and sales representatives heard a recording of former vice president John "Stick" Freeman saying Haslam was aware of the scheme to deprive trucking customers of the diesel discounts they had negotiated.

    In Freeman's words: "He knew — absolutely."

    This is a recording of "hearsay evidence" not a recording of Jimmy himself. It means absolutely nothing in a court of law unless witnesses in Jimmy's trial attest that he "knew everything". You'd think one or more who knew would have turned on him in a plea bargain by now.

    I would not call that statement hearsay.  Hearsay would be:  " I John Freeman heard  from Mr. Daffy Duck that Jimmy Haslam told Daffy Duck to rip off truckers". 

    If John Freeman said:  Jimmy Haslam told me to rip off truckers.....that is not hearsay.

    T TexasAg1969 wrote on last edited by
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    @the-gipper said:

    I would not call that statement hearsay.  Hearsay would be:  " I John Freeman heard  from Mr. Daffy Duck that Jimmy Haslam told Daffy Duck to rip off truckers". 

    If John Freeman said:  Jimmy Haslam told me to rip off truckers.....that is not hearsay.

    But you would still need him to testify under oath would you not? The recording by itself would not suffice. Correct?

  • @nickers said:

    That won't happen .. Dee Haslam is our new owner.. Let that sink a minute.. An Emo broad who went "Nuclear".. Now owns our team.. My worst fear just became a reality...

    Pretty sure the last (and only?) woman to own an NFL franchise won a SB.

    Just sayin'...

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @tour2ma said:

    Pretty sure the last (and only?) woman to own an NFL franchise won a SB.

    Just sayin'...

    You are referring to Georgia Frontiere.....but...Several women own NFL teams.

      Virginia McCaskey (daughter of George Halas)  is and was owner of the Bears when they won in 1985.

    Martha Ford......wife of the late William Clay Ford owns the Lions

    Susan Smith and Amy Strunk...both nee  Adams....daughters of old Bud Adams own the Titans (plus with a brother I believe)

    Kim Pergula and Husband Terry are co-owners of the Bills

    Carol Davis....wife of Al...plus son Mark...own the Raiders.

    And now it seems that Dee is being listed as "co-owners" of the Browns....particularly on the team's own website:

    http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/team/front-office.html

  • @the-gipper said:

    I would not call that statement hearsay.  Hearsay would be:  " I John Freeman heard  from Mr. Daffy Duck that Jimmy Haslam told Daffy Duck to rip off truckers". 

    If John Freeman said:  Jimmy Haslam told me to rip off truckers.....that is not hearsay.

    But you would still need him to testify under oath would you not? The recording by itself would not suffice. Correct?

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on last edited by
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    @texasag1969 said:

    But you would still need him to testify under oath would you not? The recording by itself would not suffice. Correct?

    In certain circumstances  under the exception to hearsay rule, it may.  A question may be:  why is this person not available to come into this court and testify?