A federal lawsuit claims that fuel distributor KRSM failed to pay for $4 million worth of gasoline it received. A fuel distributor is a company that buys gasoline in bulk from producers and resells it to gas station networks, without running the stations itself. Some of the fuel at the center of the dispute was sold by KRSM to the Freedom Fuel network, a gas station brand that former President Donald Trump has publicly promoted.
The $4 million covers the value of the fuel KRSM allegedly received without settling the bill. The lawsuit's accusation runs against KRSM as the distributor that failed to pay.
Freedom Fuel enters the case because KRSM moved some of the allegedly unpaid fuel into its stations. The complaint does not name Freedom Fuel as a defendant. Trump has publicly backed the Freedom Fuel brand. That puts his name adjacent to the legal dispute, but the claim for the $4 million points to KRSM.