Long-Haul Crime Log EP17 Inside the hunt for the masterminds of a double-brokering scheme
Hundreds of trucking companies have been allegedly defrauded in an elaborate scheme utilizing a controversial practice called double-brokering. After months of investigating, co-host Clarissa Hawes got a tip that led to a series of bizarre phone calls with the man who owned a freight brokerage at the center of the operation. He told her: \u201cYou've got a lot of angry people \u2026 trying to find out who is trying to find them, who is trying to hurt their kids, their families.\u201d\xa0\nOur latest episode wades into Hawes' investigation into a network of companies in Southern California connected to the scheme, and her efforts to find the people responsible for it. It led her to a transportation executive named Steve Avetyan, who once boasted of handing out Rolex watches \u2014 he called them \u201cRollies\u201d \u2014\xa0 as bonuses to his best sales staff. Avetyan claimed to be someone else when Hawes first called him. He eventually admitted to being Avetyan, but denied any involvement in the double-brokering network.\xa0\nCo-host and producer Nate Tabak joins Hawes for the episode.\nRead more\nFormer employees shed light on sophisticated double-brokering network\nFreight fraud: Burgeoning double-brokering scheme like \u2018whack-a-mole\u2019\nCEO denies ties to sophisticated double-brokering scheme in Southern California\nFollow Long-Haul Crime Log on Apple Podcasts\nFollow Long-Haul Crime Log on Spotify\nMore FreightWaves Podcasts\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices