On one hand, the defendant Mark Hazelwood "was clueless" about the rebate scam carried out in Pilot, said his attorney, Andy Drumheller. On the other hand, his attorney made his client look like a "genius", the Titan of the Truck Stop Industry. “They’re going to ask you to infer he knew the contents of over 8,000 (trip reports),” he said. However, "the government can't prove" that his client "actually read them", said Drumheller.