Secret gas-discount network links NFL coach and GOP financiers

A Politico report ties the Freedom Fuel Network LLC to a 25-site discount gasoline scheme in the Philadelphia area run by New Jersey businessmen, including Ravens special-teams coach Randy Brown and former commodities trader Yoni Gontownik. The stations offered up to 50-cent-per-gallon discounts around Independence Day, prompting questions about who funds and operates the effort, even as the White House says it’s a private company willing to cut margins to ease pump prices. A linked figure, Shamikh Kazmi, is associated with 17 New Jersey stations leased to Blue Owl, and Kazmi has faced lawsuits; Freedom Fuel Network says its price cuts are meant to help drivers and bolster the local economy.