I think he just lives in his own world at this point and thinks we are all just stupid...
"I am sorry, and I certainly didn't mean to bother you. This is NOT a fraud. I'm just trying to carry on with my small business because I am now unemployed and I have to support my family, having left MRG back in May 2020. I had to take out a personal loan to be able to purchase the remaining inventory of MRG from the trustee and I am just trying to recoup the funds so I can pay the loan back.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT:
I need people to understand that I did NOT create a scam or a fraud here. I and my family worked for this company for three years and we all took a pay cut to work here. We all believed very very strongly in what we were doing and we were excited to get such an amazing product out to the public. Unfortunately, other people had other ideas. We have numerous witnesses and documentation to prove that neither I, nor our employees, had anything to do with this.
I created a document summarizing some of the unfortunate events that transpired while I was at MRG, and I have shared it with many people. If you would like a copy, I would be happy to give it to you... just let me know. Hopefully, it will clarify some of what happened.
I also worked very hard to make sure that none of this would happen, but my ex-partners had other plans and I was simply out-maneuvered at every turn. These are dishonorable people who had a different agenda (apparently from day one.)
To this day, I do not understand why they would want to intentionally wipe out a successful business and cause so many customers to lose out on the product for which they paid. My mind simply doesn't work that way. All I wanted to do was get the customers the product that they paid for.
I spent three years fighting with people to do that... that's not how I envisioned my career going. And now I am unemployed because of their deliberate (IMO) sabotage. And it is unlikely that the customers will ever see their product. This is a horrible situation and it weighs on me painfully every single day.
Right up until the end, I felt very strongly that we were going to complete the HAL project and get them all shipped. We paid engineering consultants and the factory in China enormous amounts of money for design, development, tooling and to actually start production. The money did not go into big paychecks for anyone. All the money went to manufacturing, overhead, and the typical things needed to run a small business for three years.
Unfortunately, my ex-partners refuse to communicate with me in any way and I've had to hire a lawyer. I found out that the company filed for chapter 7 on the Internet as many other people did. They didn't even inform me, or give me a chance to input or vote on anything. This is a massive violation of our company bylaws.
MRG filed for chapter 7 on October 16th against all of my efforts to stop it. We had a board meeting back in April of 2020, where I presented numerous plans to reorganize the company and get the product finished. I also clearly stated that I absolutely refused to agree to bankrupt the company. I also clearly stated that I absolutely refused to agree to bankrupt the company. I said that I would not allow MRG to “burn the customers.” One of the partners replied: “Steve, we are going to burn the customers.” The partners insisted on bankrupting the company. I was out-voted and could not stop them, as I was never informed of any subsequent meetings after that date. They filed for Chapter 13 (and subsequently Chapter 7) without my knowledge or agreement.
I am so sorry this has happened. I literally have no words to express the pain I feel right now for everyone. If you can get a refund through Paypal, or your credit card company, I urge you to do so.
We are working on a plan to resurrect the project. I am waiting from approvals from several people. If we can do that, I will be personally raising the funds to complete the project and get the HALs shipped to all of the customers who we didn’t refund before MRG filed for bankruptcy. (I refunded as many people as I could before I resigned.) My partners had their lawyer send me a letter to stop doing that, BTW...
I will let everyone on this mailing list know as we learn more and if we can move forward."
"I am sorry, and I certainly didn't mean to bother you. This is NOT a fraud. I'm just trying to carry on with my small business because I am now unemployed and I have to support my family, having left MRG back in May 2020. I had to take out a personal loan to be able to purchase the remaining inventory of MRG from the trustee and I am just trying to recoup the funds so I can pay the loan back.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT:
I need people to understand that I did NOT create a scam or a fraud here. I and my family worked for this company for three years and we all took a pay cut to work here. We all believed very very strongly in what we were doing and we were excited to get such an amazing product out to the public. Unfortunately, other people had other ideas. We have numerous witnesses and documentation to prove that neither I, nor our employees, had anything to do with this.
I created a document summarizing some of the unfortunate events that transpired while I was at MRG, and I have shared it with many people. If you would like a copy, I would be happy to give it to you... just let me know. Hopefully, it will clarify some of what happened.
I also worked very hard to make sure that none of this would happen, but my ex-partners had other plans and I was simply out-maneuvered at every turn. These are dishonorable people who had a different agenda (apparently from day one.)
To this day, I do not understand why they would want to intentionally wipe out a successful business and cause so many customers to lose out on the product for which they paid. My mind simply doesn't work that way. All I wanted to do was get the customers the product that they paid for.
I spent three years fighting with people to do that... that's not how I envisioned my career going. And now I am unemployed because of their deliberate (IMO) sabotage. And it is unlikely that the customers will ever see their product. This is a horrible situation and it weighs on me painfully every single day.
Right up until the end, I felt very strongly that we were going to complete the HAL project and get them all shipped. We paid engineering consultants and the factory in China enormous amounts of money for design, development, tooling and to actually start production. The money did not go into big paychecks for anyone. All the money went to manufacturing, overhead, and the typical things needed to run a small business for three years.
Unfortunately, my ex-partners refuse to communicate with me in any way and I've had to hire a lawyer. I found out that the company filed for chapter 7 on the Internet as many other people did. They didn't even inform me, or give me a chance to input or vote on anything. This is a massive violation of our company bylaws.
MRG filed for chapter 7 on October 16th against all of my efforts to stop it. We had a board meeting back in April of 2020, where I presented numerous plans to reorganize the company and get the product finished. I also clearly stated that I absolutely refused to agree to bankrupt the company. I also clearly stated that I absolutely refused to agree to bankrupt the company. I said that I would not allow MRG to “burn the customers.” One of the partners replied: “Steve, we are going to burn the customers.” The partners insisted on bankrupting the company. I was out-voted and could not stop them, as I was never informed of any subsequent meetings after that date. They filed for Chapter 13 (and subsequently Chapter 7) without my knowledge or agreement.
I am so sorry this has happened. I literally have no words to express the pain I feel right now for everyone. If you can get a refund through Paypal, or your credit card company, I urge you to do so.
We are working on a plan to resurrect the project. I am waiting from approvals from several people. If we can do that, I will be personally raising the funds to complete the project and get the HALs shipped to all of the customers who we didn’t refund before MRG filed for bankruptcy. (I refunded as many people as I could before I resigned.) My partners had their lawyer send me a letter to stop doing that, BTW...
I will let everyone on this mailing list know as we learn more and if we can move forward."
