The Power Play Behind the Teksupport - the New filings in Court

While two former brothers-in-law destroy each other in court, a British venue operator continues collecting revenue from their most valuable asset.

words by Nina K.Malik

photo by nolandlive.

​On a Friday night in April, a thousand people packed into Brooklyn Storehouse to hear a DJ whose name most of them couldn't pronounce. The venue is in Building 293 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 60,000-square-foot industrial venue with the lease nearly expired. The sound system–purchased at auction by Abe V. Systems for $2.5 million—was equipment that was never transferred and could be heard across the East River. By all appearances, Brooklyn Storehouse was thriving.

Underneath this surface, the venue's power struggle was imploding. The two men fighting over TCE Presents – the promotion company behind the Teksupport - were locked in legal battles across three jurisdictions. One of them was prohibited by court order from accessing company funds. The other operated freely. Sources say a third partner, who has been involved for 14 years since TCE’s inception and is absent from the litigation, might render the entire legal battle over Teksupport void.

They dancers didn't know that Broadwick Live, the British venue operator running Brooklyn Storehouse in partnership with TCE, was continuing operations while its American partners destroyed each other. Or that sources allege Broadwick is paying one partner $75,000 per show while the other receives nothing.

Rob Toma and Mike Vitacco were once brothers-in-law. Vitacco married Toma's wife's sister, creating the kind of family entanglement that makes business partnerships feel safer than they are. TCE Presents has been operating since early 2010s, the timeline here is a little blurry, depending on who you ask. Rob knew how nightlife works; he brought Vitacco in to handle the production side. Court documents describe their ownership as 50/50, though sources say there is a third partner who has not been named. For over a decade, it worked.

Then Vitacco divorced Toma's sister-in-law. The divorce was contentious, sources described it as “ugly”. By late 2025, the business relationship had deteriorated. Vitacco then transferred his shares to his mother, Rosemary Vitacco, reducing his direct ownership to 10% - a move he later explained as designed to shield assets from the divorce settlement.

Text messages filed in New Jersey Superior Court show exchanges between the partners that Toma's attorney described as "bad-tempered and abusive." Vitacco repeatedly stated he wanted out by January first. On January 2nd, Toma filed a lawsuit seeking an orderly separation. Vitacco asked the court to restrain Toma from running the company. A judge issued a temporary restraining order against Toma only.

The order created an asymmetry. Toma couldn't use company funds for legal fees without Vitacco's approval. Vitacco had no such restriction. Toma is facing a three-court legal war–New Jersey state court, New York state court, federal bankruptcy court–while prohibited from accessing the resources of the company he co-founded. Vitacco, meanwhile, was left as a minority owner to operate the company without any restrictions.

Abe V. Systems had been a partner in TAG. In January 2024, AVS exited the company holding a promissory note. When TAG defaulted on payments in August 2024, AVS–holding a UCC first position lien–foreclosed and scheduled an auction for November 2024.

AVS won by bidding $2.5 million. The winning bid was structured as $1,376,321.83 in credit (the outstanding debt TAG owed AVS) plus approximately $1.17 million in cash. AVS paid the cash portion. When AVS attempted to collect the equipment in late November 2024, TAG refused to release it. On December 4, 2024, TAG preemptively sued AVS in Bergen County Superior Court, seeking a declaration that the auction was illegal and that TAG retained ownership of the equipment. AVS countersued, claiming conversion and demanding the equipment. The parties battled in New Jersey state court throughout 2025. A special fiscal agent was appointed in May after AVS caught TAG attempting to sell the equipment while the case was pending. The trial was repeatedly rescheduled–first to July, then October, then November 18, 2025. The day the trial was set to begin, TAG filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Two days later, TAG removed the case to federal bankruptcy court. The equipment was never transferred.

TAG still claims ownership. The equipment remains under Vitacco's control.

Separately, Wachtel Missry, a Manhattan real estate firm, is suing Toma for approximately $80 000 in unpaid legal fees for work performed from May 2022 through November 2023, for what sources say involved the real estate legal fees for a Maspeth, Queens, former Amazon warehouse that TCE wanted to take over before their move into the Brooklyn Storehouse.

​Court filings reveal a corporate structure that shifted over time. In an April sixteenth certification filed in New Jersey Superior Court, Toma stated: "Mr. Vitacco created SAVI Productions LLC in October 2023. He made himself the sole Manager of SAVI without my knowledge or consent... In November 2024, Mr. Vitacco filed a Certificate of Amendment with the New Jersey Division of Revenue, making himself the sole Manager of TAG without my knowledge or consent."

In the months before TAG filed for bankruptcy, the company paid $493,000 to United Interiors, a company owned by Vitacco. TAG's bankruptcy schedules list this as a debt owed to a related party.

​The corporate web is complex. TCE Presents owns Technical Arts Group. TAG paid nearly half a million to United Interiors, owned by Vitacco. TAG owes money to SAVI Productions, which was created and is controlled by Vitacco. Money flows between entities, but the pattern suggests a single destination. Sources also told us SAVI has merged with TAG early 2024; which means Vitacco consolidates control over both the debtor and the creditor – a maneuver that would make unwinding the corporate structure nearly impossible.

This Friday, May 1st, Toma and Vitacco are scheduled for mediation in New Jersey. On May 14th, there's a contempt hearing if mediation fails.

While Toma and Vitacco wage war, Broadwick Live and Fever, the experiential events platform that announced the Brooklyn Storehouse partnership in a September 2024 press release promising to 'transform NYC nightlife,' continues processing ticket sales through DICE as if nothing has changed. Shows are booked through fall 2026.

Meanwhile, the question isn't whether TCE will collapse. The question is who takes over when it does–and whether the thousand people packing Brooklyn Storehouse next Friday will even notice.