A Sense Of Vindication
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We’ve all experienced it; that moment in life where all of your effort and hard work is rewarded with a feeling of joy. A sense of vindication.
That moment came for BTIFN on 2/28/25. After six years, the efforts of a group people determined to hold a criminal accountable finally paid off. Brian Anthony Thornton, already sitting in jail in Fort Wayne, Indiana, facing extradition to Jacksonville, Florida on unknown charges (to us, anyway), was finally exposed.
A local news station, WANE-TV, published a story about Brian, finally providing some context to the arrest. Over those six years, we’ve reached out via email, sent messages, and tagged them and other local stations in countless posts asking for help in exposing him. Finally, it happened.
The article stated that Brian was being held on a $500,000 bond. As we’ve been told by a handful of other businesses who had hired the faux Salesforce CTA, Brian had duped a large railroad company, CSX, into believing he was actually going to do work for them. The article states that Brian conned them out of $13,413 in salary in the time he was employed by them. He also provided a false address, social security number, and birth date. Additionally, no state tax was withheld due to the false address. He is also accused of stealing a CSX issued computer worth approximately $3,000, a crime Brian has most certainly committed before. A few years ago, we received some frantic messages from a recruiter who had found work for him and when Brian pulled this same stunt, she wanted his contact info in order to retrieve the laptop he’d stolen from the employer she connected him with.
The WANE article goes on to say that he performed no actual work while employed by CSX, didn’t attend mandatory meetings, and even used a Mouse Mover program to make it seem like he was active at his workstation. The article also includes known history of Brian, that he worked for Salesforce and NAHETS, but that his employment there couldn’t be verified. A simple search of the Salesforce website should have been a major clue that Brian was a fake, but we digress.
An arrest warrant was issued for him on February 10th and he was ultimately found and arrested in Fort Wayne on February 26th.
While we’d love to take credit for this arrest, we cannot. What we can say though is that we spent six years attempting to warn local media and provided plenty of easily accessible info to prove that Brian was phony Salesforce CTA. Ultimately though, CSX and others took a gamble on him without doing their own due diligence.
We’re happy with this outcome and we’ll now do everything thing we can to make sure the charges are maximized for him. One victim, Dustin Ellenwood, shared his reaction to Brian’s arrest on Facebook, after him and his family, and Dustin’s business endured years of attacks by Thornton.
What’s next for us? We’ll continue to add known information about Brian and his criminal history to our Substack in hopes that other previous employers will come forward. But for now, we’ll go to work on gathering info and reporting on how Brian likes to roofie women who piss him off.
Stay tuned..