Anthony Tomashefsky runs his olympicherald.com operation from Sequim, Washington, presenting himself as a local journalist covering local courts. The public record documents where he was before, and what followed him out of it.
The address trail
A commercial records report on Tomashefsky lists an address history that reads like an itinerary: Auburn and Foresthill in California; Decatur, Georgia; Afton, Wyoming; Watertown, Massachusetts; Lakeland, Florida; and, in late 2022, the New York metropolitan area: Belford, New Jersey, in September 2022, and North Plainfield, New Jersey, in November 2022. Sequim, Washington addresses appear from 2022 forward, with a brief Talkeetna, Alaska listing in 2024.
Aggregated address data is an imperfect instrument, and TROH does not treat any single entry as proof of residence on a given day. But the pattern it documents, frequent moves across at least eight states in under a decade, is not in dispute. It is in the report.
The New York case
What is not ambiguous is what happened in a New York courtroom.
On September 19, 2023, Revenued LLC, a business-funding company, represented by attorney Theodore J. Cohen filing c/o Pearl Capital Business Funding LLC, sued Advice Chaser LLC and Anthony Tomashefsky in Nassau County Supreme Court, before Justice Dawn M. Jimenez-Salta. The complaint, per the public docket's summary, alleged breach of contract and breach of guarantee. Tomashefsky was not shielded by his company; he was named beside it, personally, on a guarantee.
The docket shows Revenued moving for a default judgment on November 22, 2023, supported by an affidavit from its chief underwriting officer, Elie Friedman, with proof of service on all defendants filed December 5, 2023. The docket records the default-judgment motion as granted. Opposition and reply affidavits appear on the docket dated January 2, 2024; the motion was heard January 3, 2024 and marked fully submitted. A decision and order on the motion issued January 25, 2024. On February 13, 2024, a $42,128 civil judgment was filed in Nassau County Supreme Court records, filing number 6151522023, against both the company and the man.
The docket classifies the matter as commercial contract litigation, a business deal that ended in court, with the businessman who signed a personal guarantee on the losing end of it.
The lien
Six days after the New York suit was filed, on September 25, 2023, a UCC financing statement appeared in the Washington Secretary of State's records naming Anthony Colin Tomashefsky and Advice Chaser LLC as debtors at 11 Sapphire Place, Sequim. The collateral: "all tangible and intangible personal property of debtor", accounts, equipment, instruments, inventory, commercial tort claims, patents, trademarks, copyrights, and more. The secured party is listed as Corporation Service Company, as representative. The filing runs through September 25, 2028.
A creditor with a judgment is a creditor with leverage. A security interest in everything a debtor owns is leverage of another kind. By February 2024, the record shows Tomashefsky carrying both.
The phone number that stayed behind
One small detail ties the Sequim operation to the New York trail. The Better Business Bureau profile for Advice Chaser LLC, business started October 19, 2020, listed at 40 Taylor Cutoff Road, Sequim, displays the contact number (917) 470-9109. The 917 area code belongs to New York City. The company moved west; the number did not.
What the record does not show
The documents establish the sequence: New York metro addresses in late 2022; a New York contract suit in September 2023; a lien-style filing six days later; a granted default-judgment motion; a $42,128 judgment in February 2024; and, one day before that judgment, an eviction filing against Tomashefsky at his Sequim address in Clallam County Superior Court.
The documents do not establish why Tomashefsky left New York, and this article does not invent a motive. What they establish is that when he arrived on the Olympic Peninsula to build a new identity as a watchdog journalist soliciting donations, a contract-breach trail, suit, guarantee, lien, judgment, was already a matter of public record behind him.
If there is another side to this sequence, Mr. Tomashefsky is welcome to provide it.
This article relies on public court records and public complaints. TROH welcomes a response from Mr. Tomashefsky and will publish it in full.