A lawsuit filed this month alleges that there’s a simple reason some stations in the Freedom Fuel Network — the chain of discount gas stations promoted by the White House — have been able to sell gas so cheaply: Some $4 million worth of the gas is stolen.KRSM, the business named in the suit, denies this accusation.Freedom Fuel stations located around Philadelphia and New Jersey burst into public view in the run-up to the July Fourth holiday, when President Donald Trump posted praise for their discounted pump prices, writing “They are doing this because they love the U.S.A.” The White House later posted a video of drivers filling up at one of the stations and thanking Trump for the low prices — at the time, $3.47 a gallon in honor of the 47th president, though they’ve since crept up.Neither the White House nor the network’s owners would explain exactly how the stations were able to sell fuel far cheaper than their competitors. The White House told reporters that Freedom Fuel was simply a private company lowering its margins for patriotic reasons and declined to disclose the people behind it — who turned out to be a former New Jersey mayor and NFL special teams coach for the Baltimore Ravens, a GOP donor.>https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/28/lawsuit-freedom-fuel-gas-stations-trump-01055248
>>1532930 (cont)POLITICO’s reporting also linked six of the stations via business records to a New Jersey fuel businessperson named Shamikh Kazmi who, along with his brother Syed Kazmi, have been involved in several lawsuits. The Freedom Fuel Network’s website said that despite “misinformation and baseless speculation … Freedom Fuel Network is proudly lowering prices to benefit our community and strengthen our local economy.”But according to a complaint filed Aug. 19 by Georgia-based fuel supplier Mansfield Oil Co. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Syed Kazmi’s company KRSM acquired over 1 million gallons of fuel from a Sunoco terminal in Twin Oaks valued at around $4 million — and never paid for it. KRSM sold some of the fuel, the lawsuit alleges, to stations within the Freedom Fuel Network, which now claims to operate 29 locations.“KRSM was able to sell such fuel for such low prices and garner such publicity because it never paid Plaintiffs for such fuel,” reads the complaint.KRSM disputed the allegations in an emailed statement, calling the case “an accounting dispute over fuel invoices misplaced by Mansfield Oil” and continuing: “We will not be commenting further on this pending litigation.” A message to Freedom Fuel sent via its website was not returned. Shamikh Kazmi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.“Syed Kazmi is a principal owner, and President, of KRSM, Inc,” said Urs Broderick Furrer, a lawyer for Mansfield, in a statement. “KRSM has failed to pay for fuel that they lifted off of Mansfield’s account. That is not an accounting dispute. The fuel was delivered to at least 10 of the Freedom Fuel Network locations, as listed on the Freedom Fuel Network’s website.”
>>1532931A White House official said that “the Administration has had zero contact or dealings with the defendant: KRSM Inc or Sayed Kazmi.” And a source familiar with the Freedom Fuel business said that “KRSM Inc and Sayed Kazmi are not associated with the Freedom Fuel Network in any capacity.”Companies associated with the Kazmis have previously been subject to other lawsuits alleging fraudulent activity and theft. For instance, a federal judge entered judgment in February in favor of a fuel distributor that alleged in a civil lawsuit that Shamikh Kazmi’s company had taken roughly $667,000 worth of fuel over 10 days in August 2021 without fully paying for it. Shamikh Kazmi denied the allegations, but the court entered a default judgment after what the judge described as the defendants and their lawyers’ “serial flouting of Court orders and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure” during the case.In another suit, 7-Eleven accused Syed Kazmi’s KRSM in 2022 of stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes, and the judge again found in favor of the plaintiff in 2024. KRSM disputed 7-Eleven’s allegations of breach of contract, claiming 7-Eleven was the one that breached the contract.The current lawsuit also alleges that KRSM is not authorized to conduct business in Pennsylvania or New Jersey at all. New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs declined to comment. The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office did not respond to a request for comment.OTHER SOURCES:>https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/trump-promoted-gas-stations-accused-of-selling-stolen-fuel/>https://www.rawstory.com/freedom-fuel-2677793186/
>>1532930TL;DR: These guys aren't directly backed by the white house, but Trump promoted the shit out of them for having really low gas prices and being "patriotic".And now it turns out the reason they could sell for so cheap is because it's actually very easy to make a profit when you don't pay for at least a massive chunk of your product.
>>1532930>KRSM INC. AND SYED KAZMIlol working with browns backfires again.Also, the gas stations bought the fuel from this man, a third party, not invested in the Freedom Fuel gas stations.So the headline is misleading.
>>1532935Did you read and understand the part where the distributer of the gas was being sued, and not the gas stations?Sorry you got fooled AGAIN, piggy.
>>1532936>Also, the gas stations bought the fuel from this man, a third party, not invested in the Freedom Fuel gas stations.He's not a third party; he and his brother are leasing at least half of their locations>https://6abc.com/post/is-behind-freedom-fuel-network-nfl-coach-evesham-twp-mayor-gop-fundraiser-new-jersey-brothers-records-show/19544365/Even if they were, the fact remains these stations literally are selling stolen product. The only reason they were able to sell so cheap isn't because they're dedicated to the community, but instead because their supplier literally just stole at least part of their supply.
>>1532937KRSM Inc leases at least half of their locations.
>>1532937Anon I don't know how to tell you this, but if you buy stolen product and then sell that stolen product to others, you're now liable. Especially when it's something like gas where the option of returning it to the legal owner is impossible.
>>1532939>. KRSM sold a portion of such fuel to its stations that are part of the Freedom FuelNetwork (freedomfuelnetwork.com) which, it has been reported, sold such fuel for significantly My mistake. They do own the stations.>Due to a data receiving error, Mansfield did not receive the information necessaryto send invoices to KRSM until early July of 2026. Looks like they also didn't invoice for the fuel.Anyway, I don't care about oil billionaires getting boned by thieves.
>>1532942>Looks like they also didn't invoice for the fuel.They still haven't paid for it, hence it is stolen. Hence the lawsuit.>Anyway, I don't care about oil billionaires getting boned by thieves.I do care about these these guys promoting themselves like "see, the gas situation isn't that bad!" and it turns out the only reason they were able to sell for that cheap was they literally just didn't pay for at least some of the gas they were selling. These low gas prices were literally only possible through straight up theft.
>>1532943>They still haven't paid for it, hence it is stolen. Hence the lawsuit.Yes, it is an ongoing contract dispute.
More likely they are buying up old expired gas at a discount that various gas stations need to get rid of.That's what the local station does here but still sells at a markup.
>>1532943wait until this guy finds out how we got the land
>>1532930They're doing a real good job turning America into Russia.
>>1532946>ongoing contract disputeThat's their excuse but per the lawsuit they literally just didn't pay them for the gas. Hell these guys literally have a history of doing this shit.
>>1532950>More likely they are buying up old expired gas at a discount that various gas stations need to get rid of.No, they literally bought gas and didn't pay for it. That's the lawsuit, and they've legitimately done it before too.>That's what the local station does here but still sells at a markup.Can't that really fuck up your engine over time?
>>1532935>it's actually very easy to make a profit when you don't pay for at least a massive chunk of your productTrump knows all about that.
>>1532936the gas stations were owned by the multimillionaire Trump donor guy, which makes it seem like the White House was more involved than they were letting on.
>>1533005I'll give them the benefit of the doubt they just jumped on this as the owner likely intended based on the branding.Unfortunately still on them for not checking where these guys were getting their gas from and just assuming "wow, they're so patriotic they're operating on a loss!"
>>1533006It's like if you go to a pawn shop and sell a stolen item then it makes you complicit in the theft of the item in the eyes of the law. The gas was stolen and both the distributor and the donor guy who owned the gas stations profited off of it. This seems like a open and shut case if there ever was one, but I expect them to get away with it. In fact, if any blue state like New Jersey tries to investigate what really happened and nail someone for it, Trump will fundraise off the news and claim evil radical leftists are using lawfare to target his friends and make gas prices higher.
>>1533007>This seems like a open and shut case if there ever was one, but I expect them to get away with itNah they got promoted by Trump, but stealing this much is gonna piss a lot of major oil suppliers off. Not to mention even if they get pardoned they're just gonna be reduced back to selling gas at normal price.
>>1533006>just assuming "wow, they're so patriotic they're operating on a loss!"Nah, this should generate an automatic and vigorous auditAnd anyone who accepts it as an answer should go to prison for terminal stupidity
FAKE NEWS. the liggerals will sabotage anything Trump does to help average Joe American folks with affordability!!! He's done so much for the poor of America and the MSM and liggerals just lie lie lie
>>1533038tone your trolling down a little, you're coming in too hot
>>1532930>Some $4 million worth of the gas is stolen.So 1000 customers were effected?
so the suit has been settled and the supplier has been found guilty? Is that what the article says?Yeah, didn't fucking think so liggerals
So a republican front to make it look like gas was cheap even though trump has doubled the price of it with his failed polices, only appeared to work because they just stole the gas.You cannot make this up.
>>1533078Don't forget the gas was 10% ethanol which is rough on cheap engines.
>>1533094Ten percent usually runs okay in even cheap-ass cars these days. The real trouble starts when they dilute it even further. I heard the Russians are moving to 25% because of their refineries getting fucked.
>>1533095It was wild how trump starts another way and gets the strait of hormuz shut down.To try to ease oil demand that he fucked up, and once again suck putin's cock, he lifts sanctions on russian oil.The russians will use clearly use the revenue in their illegal occupation and war against Ukraine.The ukrainians respond by fucking up everything possible for russian oil production, storage and transporting to the point even russians can't get gas anymore.Everything trump does blows up in his face
>>153309410% is fine. You're probably thinking of when he said he saw $1.80 gas that was 90% ethanol and left that bit out. Which, mind you, is a very important bit considering how said gas is literally unusable for the vast majority of cars.
>>1533099E90 is only like $.20 cheaper, so $2 gas?
>>1533063It's actual fact when the lying (>>1529518 >>1529639 ) esl shill is triggered by it.
>>1533098The Ukes have been fucking Russian fuel production pretty much as long as they have had the capability to do so. It's just fortuitous timing that they were able to cripple it before Putin could benefit meaningfully from the Hormuz Boogaloo.
