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Pilot Flying J lockdown: Reports say IRS involved, CEO releases statement

The latest reports from Knoxville, Tenn., following Monday’s reports that Pilot Flying J headquarters in West Knoxville had been locked down by the FBI say now that the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Internal Revenue Service is involved in the lockdown as part of an “ongoing investigation,” according to a report from Knoxvillebiz.com.

The site also reported that dozens of agents from the FBI and the IRS entered Pilot’s headquarters and ordered all employees to turn off their computers, cell phones and other electronics, and employees not essential to day-to-day operations were asked to leave Pilot premises.

Cleveland.com reported Monday evening that Pilot CEO Jimmy Haslam — majority owner of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns and brother of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam — issued a statement saying that he trusts “there has been no wrongdoing” and the “integrity of [Pilot Flying J] always has been job No. 1.”

Haslam returned to Pilot Flying J in February after short stint away tending full time to the Cleveland Browns, which he bought in August.

More information will be published as it becomes available.

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