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.
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.
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.
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