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The settlement breaks down to $66.25 million in principal and $9.75 million in interest that goes to the truckers. Legal fees comprise $14 million. The company spent $4.5 million on audits plus other expenses.
The truckers' lawsuit alleged a variety of violations, including fraud, unjust enrichment, fraudulent concealment, breach of contract and other claims, all of which were dropped with the settlement.
U.S. District Judge James Moody said Monday that he was satisfied that the settlement was fair,Wholesale Adidas Shoes China, reasonable and equitable.
"The advantage to Pilot Flying J is demonstrating clearly and unequivocally that they were committed to doing the right thing. Where there were things that happened improperly, they were committed to make them right," Harwell said.
The settlement doesn't put to rest a federal investigation in which seven company employees have already entered guilty pleas.
Harwell stressed that the Haslams had no involvement in any wrongdoing.
Pilot Flying J has annual revenues of about $30 billion.
Prosecutors alleged in court documents that the scheme to cheat customers out of rebate and discount money was well known among sales staff. Plea agreements allege sales staff took part in a training session that taught employees how to defraud trucking companies without getting caught.
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Attorney Aubrey Harwell Jr. of Nashville said Jimmy Haslam,Cheap Shoes China Free Shipping, owner of the Cleveland Browns and CEO of the truck stop chain, had no knowledge that employees were cheating customers. The company is co-owned by Haslam's brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, who has said he isn't involved with Pilot Flying J's operations.
Don Barrett, an attorney for the truckers, said the settlement makes his clients whole.
Lawyers on both sides stressed that no one among the 5,500 companies agreeing to the settlement filed an objection and that only about 1 percent of affected companies opted out of the agreement so they could file their own lawsuits.
Moody also approved $14 million in fees that will go to the truckers' lawyers,Dirk Nowitzki Jersey.
"What Pilot was required to do was done well and ... honorably," Barrett said.
"They're already paying it out. They've paid out most of it already" Barrett said.
He said many clients received their money before the settlement was approved.
Harwell said it was in the interest of the company to reach a settlement quickly.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge in Arkansas approved a settlement Monday that pays $84.9 million to 5,500 trucking companies that were cheated out of promised rebates by Pilot Flying J, the nation's largest diesel retailer.
Barrett praised Jimmy Haslam for opening the accounts in question to auditors and striving to make trucking companies whole.
"I don't have any reservation about giving final approval here," Moody said at the end of an hourlong hearing in Little Rock.
"We couldn't have had this result in this short amount of time had not Mr. (Jimmy) Haslam stepped up to the plate, said he was going to do the right thing and in an honorable way and he did it. ... That's the comment of the 5,800 truckers that I represent," Barrett said.
"The federal government took documents, they've interviewed witnesses, they're subpoenaing people to the grand jury and they'll get to the bottom of what they think occurred. In terms of any impact ... there will be charges brought, there have been some guilty pleas already, there will likely be more," Harwell said.