Freedom Fuel gas stations sold stolen fuel, lawsuit claims
Freedom Fuel gas stations, which the Trump administration promoted last month, sold fuel that its supplier never paid for, a lawsuit filed earlier this month claims.
The suit, which attorneys for Mansfield Oil Company filed in U.S. District Court in Eastern Pennsylvania on Aug. 19, alleges that foreign corporation KRSM obtained in excess of 1.1 million gallons of fuel from the former company’s account from May 21 through July 7.
The fuel cost nearly $4 million, the 179-page lawsuit states. But as of Aug. 17, KRSM had not paid for the fuel, despite Mansfield — a foreign corporation with offices in Gainesville, Ga. — sending revised invoices to the defendant on July 17.
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A Trump affiliated company was committing a crime? Surely something like this has never happened before.
At this point if Trump endorses a company the DOJ might as well just automatically launch an investigation into them because it's practically guaranteed their guilty of something even if it's just false advertising.
It's kind of the opposite. If Trump endorses a company, his DOJ immediately goes into coverup mode for the company. And if the company is seeking government contracts, it will get them at a better rate than any other company and probably get a no bid contract.
This is part of how kleptocracy works. Coming up next, accusing your enemies of tax fraud and throwing them in prison.
Why would the DOJ investigate itself?
wouldn't it be a differen't agency?
Pretty easy to sell cheaper product if you don't actually pay for the product.
Lmao fencing stolen gas, how low do you get
I'll give you a hint, he got to "raping children" and then kept going.
uh, i kinda feel like you got the order backward there stranger.
No, he said "Well, I raped children on child rape island, what else could I do? Genocide? Nazi Resurgence? World War Three? Why not all of the above!"
ah gotcha. i had a few more layers of abstraction in between krasnov and the specific franchise, but i can see where you're coming from. also my brain went "uh, it's just gas"
Given that this is a page right out of Trump's playbook, one wonders if it was his idea passed down, or if they just sought to emulate him. Either way it's going to be more common to stiff people as this becomes a norm.
This will be the state of business going forward. No one pays anyone until forced into it. Should be fun.
I did a little looking into it, and as far as I can tell:
So headline is a bit clickbaity, but whatever. Take my comments above or don't, up to you.
That in itself is a crime.
That's the best definition of "freedom" (the Southern kind), though, isn't it?
What i like about this is that it likely stiffed people who voted for him and I love that for them
Trump behaves like he always has, world shocked