A federal judge entered judgment in February in favor of a fuel distributor that alleged in a civil lawsuit that Kazmi’s company had taken roughly $667,000 worth of fuel over 10 days in August 2021 without fully paying for it. 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 a separate federal case, a judge ruled in January that Kazmi’s company had failed to pay more than $700,000 in rent at 17 stations it operated in Florida and that the franchisor lawfully terminated franchise agreements. Kazmi argued that his company had been unable to pay the rent because the franchisor withheld credit-card proceeds during a contract dispute…
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