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arotrios@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 10d (3 replies)

Ok - I started looking into KSRM and things look really weird.

KRSM, Inc. is a Domestic Profit Corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey. The business was filed on July 7, 2017 and is currently listed as Inactive with the New Jersey Division of Revenue. The official file number for this entity is 450182281.

Mailing correspondence may be sent to 117 Petal Ln Ewing, NJ 08638.

The Registered Agent on file is Syed Kazmi, located at 117 Petal Ln Ewing, NJ 08638.

Syed Kazmi is the sole principal on record and serves as Agent and is associated with an address at 117 Petal Ln Ewing, NJ 08638.

https://www.bizapedia.com/nj/krsm-inc.html

So this company is inactive according to the state revenue service, and only has one principal, who also happens to be its sole registered agent.

Now things get weirder when you start looking around the web. This is their employment graph from the last 5 years:

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Do you know any company that consistently maintained a headcount of 240 employees for 5 years? No turrnover? No new hirings? And it's been inactive in the state's revenue rolls?

This smells like a mob front to me. It's certainly acting like one by refusing to pay its bills. I'll bet Kazmi is already out of the country, laughing his ass off on the way to the bank.

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d (2 replies)

Yeah 47 let some people use the gas station as a laundry mat, and some people get kick backs. What did you think it was? Legal?

arotrios@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 10d (1 reply)

I'm more surprised the NJ state revenue service hasn't stepped in - five years of lost tax revenue on 240 employees in a multimillion dollar company should have set off some alarm bells. I mean, it's not like Kazim is an Italian name - they shouda been on him like a hawk...

Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 10d

You scratch my back, I scratch yours. The Romans said quid pro quo or some shit. If he’s cleaning money & everyone gets a little piece, what’s the problem? Maybe the overseeing officials were ”busy?”