Before Anthony Tomashefsky sold journalism, he sold leads. The business model in both ventures, as documented in public records and complaints, shares a skeleton: collect money upfront, deliver something difficult to verify, and leave the customer to discover the difference.
Venture one: Advice Chaser
Advice Chaser LLC was a lead-generation company serving financial advisors, a firm that promised client introductions to professionals who paid for them. Its pitch, per the complaints that followed, was access to a stream of prospective clients that traditional marketing could not deliver. According to the Better Business Bureau's complaint history, dozens of complainants alleged they paid Advice Chaser upfront fees ranging from $6,000 to $14,000 for services they say were never delivered. The complaints describe a consistent shape: a confident pitch, money collected before any work, and then results that never materialized.
Public records reviewed by TROH document how that venture ended. A September 25, 2023 UCC filing in Washington shows Tomashefsky and Advice Chaser pledging "all tangible and intangible personal property" to a secured creditor. In New York, Revenued LLC sued Advice Chaser and Tomashefsky in 2023 over a merchant cash-advance agreement, the kind of high-cost financing businesses turn to when conventional credit is unavailable, and obtained a $42,128 default judgment, filed of record February 13, 2024. One day earlier, February 12, 2024, Properties by Landmark Inc. filed an eviction action against Tomashefsky in Clallam County Superior Court. The company's listed address on Taylor Cutoff Road in Sequim was a storage facility.
One more detail from that era matters to this story: per his public professional profile, Ben Mavy was co-founder and vice president of Advice Chaser from 2018 to 2022. Mavy is the man who later obtained a one-year stalking and harassment protection order against Tomashefsky in Clallam County, the man whose ex-wife Tomashefsky dates, and the man the Olympic Herald would go on to cover in 17 articles.
Venture two: the Olympic Herald
The Revenued judgment and eviction were filed in February 2024. Twenty-two months later, on December 26, 2025, the domain olympicherald.com was registered, per RDAP registry data, two months after Judge Brent Basden's October 21, 2025 opinion denying Tomashefsky's bid to undo the protection order. The first articles appeared in January 2026.
The new venture's revenue model is again upfront payment for an intangible: the archived donate page solicits one-time gifts of $25 to $500 and memberships of $10 a month or $100 a year, with Stripe checkout and the disclaimer "Contributions are not tax-deductible." What donors receive is "the reporting", a body of 425 articles, all written by Tomashefsky, concentrated on the judge, the commissioner, the petitioner, and two psychologists connected to his own court record.
The continuity runs deeper than the payment structure. Both ventures present themselves in the language of trusted institutions. Advice Chaser presented a professional services firm; its listed address was a storage unit. The Olympic Herald presents a newsroom; its staff page does not exist, and the About page its ethics page points to for "the receipts" does not load. Both ask for money before value can be inspected. And both, on the documented record, left the other party to the transaction holding the loss: complainants at the BBB in the first case, and, if readers fund coverage without knowing it targets the owner's courtroom opponents, donors in the second.
At Advice Chaser, complainants alleged they paid thousands upfront for services that never arrived. At the Olympic Herald, donors pay upfront for "independent journalism" that the article census shows is dominated by its owner's litigation opponents: 109 articles about Judge Basden, 58 about Commissioner Parker, 17 about Mavy, 6 about Dr. Steve Tutty, 5 about Dr. William Singer. The wrapper changed. The pattern, money first, scrutiny later, did not.
Readers considering a contribution should know the history of the hands they are putting money into. It is documented, it is recent, and it is entirely a matter of public record: the BBB complaint file, the Nassau County judgment, the Clallam County eviction docket, the Washington UCC filing, and the registry entry for the domain itself.
This article relies on public court records and public complaints. TROH welcomes a response from Mr. Tomashefsky and will publish it in full.