Before Anthony Tomashefsky published the Olympic Herald, he sold financial-planning services. Public records in two states sketch what that business left behind: a five-figure default judgment in New York, an eviction filing in Clallam County, a lien against everything his company owned, and a listed business address that turns out to be a self-storage facility.
The judgment
On Sept. 19, 2023, Revenued LLC sued Advice Chaser LLC and Tomashefsky personally in Nassau County, New York, according to the case docket indexed by Trellis.Law. The complaint alleged breach of contract and breach of guarantee. The docket shows the plaintiff moved for a default judgment and that on Nov. 24, 2023, Judge Dawn M. Jimenez-Salta granted it; a decision and order on the motion followed on Jan. 25, 2024.
A commercial background report records the result: a civil judgment for $42,128, filed Feb. 13, 2024, in Nassau Supreme Court in Mineola, naming both Advice Chaser LLC and Anthony Tomashefsky as debtors.
The same week, at home
One day before that judgment was filed in New York, a different case was opened against Tomashefsky in his own county. Clallam County Superior Court records indexed in the same background report show an eviction filing on Feb. 12, 2024, brought by Properties by Landmark Inc., naming Tomashefsky at a Sapphire Place address in Sequim. The outcome of that case is not detailed in the report; the filing itself is a matter of public record.
Less than five months earlier, on Sept. 25, 2023, a UCC financing statement filed with the Washington Secretary of State had recorded a security interest against both Tomashefsky and Advice Chaser LLC, covering, in the filing's words, all tangible and intangible personal property of the debtors, including accounts, equipment, inventory, commercial tort claims, patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The secured party's representative is listed as Corporation Service Company. In plain terms: in the same season the Olympic Herald's future publisher was being sued for default, a creditor had filed a public claim on essentially everything his business owned.
The office
The Better Business Bureau profile for Advice Chaser LLC describes a company offering "financial, estate, retirement, college and tax planning services," started Oct. 19, 2020, with a BBB file opened Dec. 17, 2022. The profile lists the business as not BBB accredited and not rated. "BBB does not have sufficient information to issue a rating on this business."
The profile's listed address is 40 Taylor Cutoff Rd., Sequim. That address is not an office park. Public business listings identify it as Sequim Self Storage, a storage facility whose main office also hosts a pack-and-ship counter and a UPS shipping outlet. A commenter in a local Reddit thread who traced the address wrote that it "was traced back to a storage unit on Taylor Cutoff Road in Sequim, not a business office." The address check is easily repeated; the BBB listing and the storage facility's own website resolve to the same street address.
The BBB profile also lists, as the company's member and principal contact, Tomashefsky's partner, the ex-wife of the man a Clallam County court later found he stalked.
The complaints
The BBB profile currently displays no published reviews or complaints; BBB states that its profiles generally cover a three-year reporting period. But complaints about Advice Chaser circulated publicly while the company was active, and they were quoted at length in a Reddit thread about the Olympic Herald posted early this year. One commenter there posted what he described as a public warning, writing that the Olympic Herald's author "previously operated a business called Advice Chaser, which has dozens of reviews from people claiming they paid between $6,000–$14,000 upfront and never received the services promised," and linking the company's BBB profile. Those are the complainants' allegations, not adjudicated findings, but they echo a paper trail that ends in a $42,128 default judgment.
The same commenter questioned the company's résumé claims, writing that Tomashefsky "also worked at another financial company call Off Ball Services as a 'Manager' for 6 years," adding, "there's no paper trail or existing address." The background report does show Tomashefsky, born in July 1996, working in sales development roles at a California financial-technology firm in 2016 and 2017, entry-level positions, years before Advice Chaser's founding.
The shells
The Olympic Herald's finances are opaque. The Reddit thread that identified Tomashefsky as the site's publisher alleged that he "owns several LLCs for the purposes of monetizing content and shielding himself from personal liability for the publishing of libel," linking a business-registry profile. That characterization is the poster's opinion, but the corporate record it points to is real: the background report shows Advice Chaser LLC registered to Tomashefsky at a Sequim home address, the 2023 lien against the company, and the New York judgment that reached through the company to him personally.
Judgments, liens, and eviction filings are the ordinary residue of failed businesses. What makes this record newsworthy is what came next. The man whose financial-planning company ended in default and whose listed office was a storage facility relaunched himself, less than two years later, as a financial and civic watchdog, publishing, among other things, articles about other people's money, other people's courts, and other people's character.
The public record behind that relaunch is not hidden. It is filed in Mineola, in Olympia, and in Port Angeles, under his own name.
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