Prosecutors seek to have 3 tossed Pilot convictions restored

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking to restore the tossed convictions for the former president of Pilot Flying J and two former employees related to a rebate scheme to cheat trucking companies out of millions of dollars. The petition filed this week asks a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel to reconsider a ruling that jurors shouldn’t have heard recordings of racist language by the former president, Mark Hazelwood. Hazelwood was convicted in 2018 of conspirac