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Cake day: January 30th, 2025

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  • 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.

    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.


















  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn’t_Steal_a_Car?wprov=sfti1

    Copyright concerns

    It was reported that the music in the announcement was itself used without permission.However, one source disputes this, saying the reporting is the result of conflation regarding a different anti-piracy ad that used stolen music composed in 2006.

    The “ransom note” typeface used in the campaign was FF Confidential, designed by the Dutch typographer Just van Rossum. Reports arose in 2025 that the copy of the font used to design the commercial may not have been properly licensed. In April 2025, Sky News reported via extraction from old campaign PDFs that the actual font used was Xband-Rough, a widely-distributed pirated version of FF Confidential. Van Rossum was aware of the font Xband-Rough, but was unaware that the advert has used the pirated font and described its use as “hilarious”. According to a different investigation by journalists, the pirated font was only in a domestic campaign by the British Federation Against Copyright Theft, who had no involvement in the making of the original PSA. The Federation responded by saying that everyone involved in the creation of the announcement was no longer at the organization.