On Monday Sept. 9, 2019, Judge Kelly Lee Ellerbe, Fulton County Superior Court, awarded an injunction against VC Mining Enterprises for in behalf of Blockchain United Mining Services a Wyoming company. (Civil Action File No. Plaintiff, 2019CV326248)
Blockchain United Mining Services complaint is that VC Mining Enterprises, Inc. an Atlanta company, has been and may still be stealing bitcoin from multiple families across the country, and has unlawfully seized bitcoin mining equipment belonging to these families.
VC Mining is located at 2380 Godby Road and is owned by Michael Oken with additional owners and employees Greg Ohanessian, Jeffrey Jones, Justin Gerry, and Lisa DeKalb. It's registered agent is an Atlanta attorney, Justin Daniels with the law firm Baker Donelson.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vcmining
https://vcmining.com/
Pictured at links above: Michael Oken, Greg Ohanessian, and Lisa DeKalb. Not pictured: Jeffrey Jones and Justin Gerry.
I represent one family that has property in this Atlanta facility. They continue to refuse to release my property and I understand it is the same for others. I am being told there is a contract dispute, but I don't understand how that is possible since I have no contract with VC Mining.
The injunction states that VC Mining is holding in excess of 2000 high performance servers, an estimated $6MM. This facility’s owners and employees are justifying the seizure of this property, WHILE still operating the equipment and further stealing the bitcoin rewards ( estimated at $12,000 per day in BTC) that rightfully belong to the families hosting their personal equipment with Blockchain United Mining Services.
From the ruling (Civil Action File No. Plaintiff, 2019CV326248):
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- FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
The Court finds: (1) there is a substantial threat that Plaintiff will suffer
irreparable injury if the injunction is not granted; (2) the threatened injury to
Plaintiff outweighs the threatened harm that the injunction may do to Defendants;
(3) there is a substantial likelihood that Plaintiff will prevail on the merits of its
Claims at trial; and (4) granting the interlocutory injunction will not disserve the
public interest.
Ruling goes on to state that the defendant is “ENJOINED and RESTRAINED” from accessing any of the plaintiffs equipment.
Further, Michael Oken, Greg Ohanessian, Jeffrey Jones, Justin Gerry and Lisa DeKalb have all been personally served in connection with this affair.
At least four different customers from across the country have been in contact with authorities (the police, FBI, and other civil authorities in Atlanta) to file criminal charges and other complaints against VC Mining and it’s principals.
What VC Mining is doing is no different than a land owner saying that because the bank leasing their land has defaulted on the lease (or some other alleged contract breach) gives them the right to the property in the safe deposit boxes, AS WELL AS the daily bank deposits going to the bank.
The property in those safety deposit boxes and the customers' daily money deposits clearly still belong to the customers of the bank, not the land owner. Even if the bank defaulted on its lease, the landlord has no right to the bank customer’s information, property, or money.
In my home state, the authorities call that ‘THEFT.’ Given the amount of customers this is affecting, it’s likely felony THEFT, at least as far as I understand Georgia statute 16-8-1.
My purpose in issuing this letter is to give warning to anyone that has business dealings with VC Mining and ask for your help sharing this warning. If these individuals are willing to brazenly steal from me and other families, I can only imagine that they believe this is an acceptable business practice and likely have done it to many others.
It’s disappointing that anyone would consider themselves justified in seizing personal property without permission, no matter how desperate their situation may be. And all I can figure is that the named individuals at VC Mining must be very very desperate.