A team of Ellis George litigators led by Tom O’Brien and Jennie Wang VonCannon asked a federal judge to punish defendants associated with the marijuana venture Genius Fund Group for selling real property and assets in violation of an attachment order that Ellis George had previously obtained. On behalf of Ellis George client Francis Racioppi, the Ellis George team told the court that the defendants’ sale “will almost certainly render the further prosecution of this lawsuit largely fruitless.”
Ellis George had previously obtained a $3.7 million attachment order in this litigation, encumbering four parcels of real property and approximately $1.5 million worth of cannabis products, equipment and trucks. In its filing, Ellis George explained that Defendants Dmitry Borisovich Bosov, Gary I. Shinder, and their various entities had impermissibly transferred the attached assets to a new company they controlled and obscured the ownership of assets that had been attached, among other violations of the Court’s order.
In the ex parte application, Ellis George attorneys wrote, “Such a shocking and brazen violation of this Court’s orders is a direct affront to its judicial authority, and this Court should not hesitate to impose the full range of contempt sanctions at its disposal.”
