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):
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.
I was asked to fly in to Atlanta to film video of our miners being on and to do so me educational pieces for our community. When we got there Greg and picked us up from the airport along with his business partner Mason Song. They took us to the facility and we were able to meet some of the team. We quickly learned that the Miners that were supposed to be installed and running, still had not even been inventoried appropriately by the Atlanta Team.
Greg told me that he had received about 2600 of our machines, but none of them had been checked in or tagged. Additionally the containers that were supposed to be prepared and ready with our miners installed, didn’t even have the power or networking installed in the units.
They were filled with old incompatible wires and equipment that they still had yet to remove. I was told multiple times by Greg and Mason Song that they would have 5 guys to help us while we were there to install rigs and get things taken care of. That never happened. It seemed like they were horribly understaffed. Greg and Mason were running around doing other things the whole time and meeting with other clients. What was supposed to be a one day visit, ended up extending out to 4 full days.
They weren’t getting things done so we offered to hire temp workers to assist in doing the job that they should have already done. We hired 3 workers the first day and then another, 6 the second day. We inventoried the miners based on their inventory system, and began the installation process on the last day that we were there because they had finally run power to one of the units.
I was taken on a tour of the facility and noticed that many units were on and running, but was told that they weren’t ours. They showed me the Power supplies that had been installed on the property as well as many other machines that were for diverting power to different places. When asked if power was hooked up to our containers the answer was no, but that they would be working on it.
I was shown 8 Containers and told that those where the containers that our machines would be going in. A couple of the containers had been damaged in transit. Also they were stacked in two rows, each row two containers high and two containers deep. While there they mentioned that they wanted the doors of the containers on the other side from where they had been installed. They started removing and adjusting two of the containers, while I was there. They also did not have stairs for the containers on the top level, so there was no access to them.
Overall i was not impressed by their lack of service, and lack of attention to our situation. The whole time we were doing the job that they had said and contracted to do. I know that I felt i had to stay longer to get done what we were able to get done and had we not been there, I am sure that it wouldn’t have moved forward. There was just no urgency shown from them.
What's worse is now we were able to confirm that our mining servers were running and producing. All rewards have been withheld. We asked for access to remove our machines from their facility and they refused to give us access. They have stolen our property now as well as the rewards that our mining servers have produced.
They only turned on a part of our inventory and have now kept all the rewards, and I have recieved nothing now from all my efforts.
Vc Mining Enterprises, Inc. Reviews
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):
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.
I was asked to fly in to Atlanta to film video of our miners being on and to do so me educational pieces for our community. When we got there Greg and picked us up from the airport along with his business partner Mason Song. They took us to the facility and we were able to meet some of the team. We quickly learned that the Miners that were supposed to be installed and running, still had not even been inventoried appropriately by the Atlanta Team.
Greg told me that he had received about 2600 of our machines, but none of them had been checked in or tagged. Additionally the containers that were supposed to be prepared and ready with our miners installed, didn’t even have the power or networking installed in the units.
They were filled with old incompatible wires and equipment that they still had yet to remove. I was told multiple times by Greg and Mason Song that they would have 5 guys to help us while we were there to install rigs and get things taken care of. That never happened. It seemed like they were horribly understaffed. Greg and Mason were running around doing other things the whole time and meeting with other clients. What was supposed to be a one day visit, ended up extending out to 4 full days.
They weren’t getting things done so we offered to hire temp workers to assist in doing the job that they should have already done. We hired 3 workers the first day and then another, 6 the second day. We inventoried the miners based on their inventory system, and began the installation process on the last day that we were there because they had finally run power to one of the units.
I was taken on a tour of the facility and noticed that many units were on and running, but was told that they weren’t ours. They showed me the Power supplies that had been installed on the property as well as many other machines that were for diverting power to different places. When asked if power was hooked up to our containers the answer was no, but that they would be working on it.
I was shown 8 Containers and told that those where the containers that our machines would be going in. A couple of the containers had been damaged in transit. Also they were stacked in two rows, each row two containers high and two containers deep. While there they mentioned that they wanted the doors of the containers on the other side from where they had been installed. They started removing and adjusting two of the containers, while I was there. They also did not have stairs for the containers on the top level, so there was no access to them.
Overall i was not impressed by their lack of service, and lack of attention to our situation. The whole time we were doing the job that they had said and contracted to do. I know that I felt i had to stay longer to get done what we were able to get done and had we not been there, I am sure that it wouldn’t have moved forward. There was just no urgency shown from them.
What's worse is now we were able to confirm that our mining servers were running and producing. All rewards have been withheld. We asked for access to remove our machines from their facility and they refused to give us access. They have stolen our property now as well as the rewards that our mining servers have produced.
They only turned on a part of our inventory and have now kept all the rewards, and I have recieved nothing now from all my efforts.