A Judge Just Shut Down New York's Biggest Techno Promoter. Its Own Founders Did The Rest.

For over a decade, Teksupport turned Brooklyn's leftover industrial real estate, navy yard hangars, submarine factories, even a corner of Grand Central Station, into some of New York's most reliable warehouse techno. That run is now being wound down by court order, not by choice.

What did the court actually order?

Judge Thomas D. Mcloskey ordered TCE Presents, the company behind the Teksupport brand, to cease operations. The ruling came down on October 5, 2026, the product of a dispute between the company's two co-founders, Rob Toma and Mike Vitacco. Under the order, TCE Presents had to terminate non-essential employees by October 9. Event production under the TCE Presents banner ends November 7, 2026, the same date every TCE-related entity gets frozen and the company moves into liquidation.

A separate figure in the case, Judge Troncone, remains the court-appointed mediator overseeing the broader dispute between Toma and Vitacco, a role distinct from Mcloskey's operational order.

What happens to Toma and Vitacco now?

The order doesn't just end TCE Presents, it clears a path for its founders to walk away from each other. Both Toma and Vitacco are permitted to set up separate companies and keep producing events on their own, independent of the other and of the TCE entity being liquidated. Financially, each is due $500,000 out of the company's Morgan account, though that payout is explicitly subject to the funds actually being there when the liquidation plays out.

All TCE-related entities freeze on November 7, 2026, the date the company enters liquidation.

Why does this matter beyond one company's paperwork?

Teksupport wasn't a side promoter. It was one of the few operators capable of consistently locking down and legally running massive one-off spaces in a city that makes warehouse techno logistically brutal. A fight between its two founders ending in a judge ordering the whole operation shut is a reminder of how fragile even the biggest independent promoters are once a partnership breaks down in court rather than at the negotiating table.