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Filing Date: 2019-04-26

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 2; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt">Defendant Celadon Group, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), pursuant to authority granted by the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors reflected in Attachment B, and the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section (the &#8220;Fraud Section&#8221;) and the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Southern District of Indiana (the &#8220;Office&#8221;) enter into this deferred prosecution agreement (the &#8220;Agreement&#8221;).</div>

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