He was chief technology officer for Millennial Realty and
Investments. He described the email engine he built in a filing to the divorce court —
the same year he told that court he was earning three to four hundred dollars a
month. Nine months after that, he made an email attack on a courthouse, and published
the write-up under the job title.
What is established and what is claimed are marked separately on this page. The
2016 reprimand is a regulator’s published finding. The guilty plea to
attacking the courthouse email system is a conviction.
Almost everything else here is his own description of his own work, given in his own
filings and on his own LinkedIn page. It is quoted because he wrote it, not because anyone has
verified it. No court has found that he used his employer’s systems for anything,
and this page does not suggest it.
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The record, in order
North Carolina Real Estate Commission · Nos. DR-20-382383,
CV-22-965121, CV-22-969917 and CV-22-971495 · Tennessee Secretary of State
2015 – 2018 · North Carolina
He held a North Carolina broker’s license, and the state Commission reprimanded him
Before Ohio, William Easton Horner was a licensed real estate broker in North
Carolina. On 2 March 2016 the North Carolina Real Estate Commission
reprimanded him by consent. Its own bulletin records the finding: acting as
listing agent for two adjacent properties with different owners, he
“failed to communicate with seller B concerning the buyer’s failure to
make another offer for seller B’s property, believing that to do so would adversely
affect the sale of seller A’s property.”
A reprimand is the lowest formal sanction the Commission
issues, and this one was entered by consent rather than after a contested
hearing. It concerns a 2016 property transaction, four years before the divorce and six before
anything else on this site.
North Carolina Real Estate Commission, Disciplinary Action bulletin,
May 2016 · bulletins.ncrec.gov
9 August 2021 · His own filing
William Easton Horner cites a 5-day Air Force Academy visit as the origin of his hacking skills
In a filing he captioned “in civil disobedience,” he gave the court an
account of his own training:
“I was an intelligence recruit in the rising freshman class of 2005,
I never served, but was well trained as part of the selection process and was
one of the best at social engineering hacking and cybersecurity. These talents
were first identified at the United States Air Force Academy during my Summer Seminar. It is
the reason I am a professional data scientist and cybersecurity specialist today.”
Elsewhere in the same period he described himself to a magistrate as
“a certified data scientist with a specialty in cybersecurity and digital
forensics.”
This is his description of himself. No part of it is corroborated
by any record here, and he concedes in the same sentence that he never served. The
Air Force Academy’s
Summer Seminaris a five-day recruiting visit for rising high school seniors, which is when he
attended it; the Academy states on that page that it is “not a prescreening or
preselection program.” It is quoted because
it is the vocabulary he brought to everything that followed.
Rejection of the trial order, filed 9 August 2021 · No. DR-20-382383
William Easton Horner told the court he was only earning $300 to $400 a month
At an oral hearing on temporary support, before Magistrate Sharon Ditko-Bevione, he gave
evidence about his own work. Her order of 1 June 2021 records it:
He testified that he is a “Data Security Specialist”, and
a licensed realtor in North Carolina working to become licensed in Tennessee
as well.
He is “currently working on building a consulting business as a Data
Security Specialist” but says he cannot take on clients, because he believes
his phone has been compromised and he has “an ethical obligation to maintain secure
communications as a licensed broker.”
He is “currently making $300 to $400 per month, and is on track to make $600
per month.”
He also produced his severance agreement from his last employer, which records the separation
as “pursuant to the employee’s resignation” with two weeks’
pay.
The magistrate accepted his account. Income of $20,000 was
imputed to him, the court finding “credible evidence that Defendant is unable to
earn at that capacity at the present time” despite having earned significantly
more in the past. Support stayed at $196.71 a month for two children. He filed
no objection, which is why the appellate court could later review it only for plain error.
His mother claimed the same thing in October. Her sworn affidavit of
5 October 2021 states that he lacks “business machines and
supplies” including “his business computer,” and the
“possessions needed to sustain livelihood activities”; she lists among the
plaintiff’s conduct “not permitting her spouse to gain access to the marital
residence in a timely fashion which had a direct negative result in his ability to earn a
living.”
Her affidavit is an allegation and no court ruled on it. The magistrate’s
finding on his earning capacity is a court finding, and it was made in his
favor.
Magistrate’s order under Civ.R. 75(N)(2), hearing of 16 April 2021, filed
1 June 2021 · affidavit of Kathy H. Horner, 5 October 2021 · No. DR-20-382383
His own report covers the same twelve months, and describes a full year’s work as a firm’s chief technology officer
In a notarized filing of 21 December 2021 William Easton Horner set out his role at
Millennial Realty and Investments, a North Carolina brokerage, and attached his
own 2021 MRI Technology Improvement Review, bylined “Easton Horner,
CTO” and dated 14 December 2021.
It is a report on the whole of 2021. It opens on
“2021 technical objectives” and “the year’s technology
development,” and its charts plot the firm’s email volume and website traffic
month by month from January 2021 to November 2021 — the month of the
divorce trial. In his own numbered paragraphs:
“As CTO of MRI, Defendant worked with business partner Stanley Jones, to
expand MRI as a business entity into three states (NC, TN, and GA).”
He “built out the entire MRI digital website infrastructure,”
which he says required him to learn four new computer languages —
HTML/CSS, PHP, SQL and JavaScript — “integrating them with his native
Perl.”
He “built a proprietary email marketing engine” with a
real-time analytics dashboard, a platform he says “exceeds commercially available
solutions like SalesForce.”
He had positioned the firm for venture capital investment, with
negotiations “expected to begin in the next six months.”
The review itself describes “a ground up build on a basic website hosting Unix
box,” an email database built “to achieve critical email marketing
mass,” and a year-end figure: “In 2021, ARIEA sent over 476K emails for
the Firm.” Planned capacity for the following year was double
that.
Every word of this is his own account of his own work,
filed by him. It is not a finding, and nobody has verified the figures. Nothing here
suggests the firm knew of or authorized anything that came later — on his own
account he was a principal, not an employee acting under direction.
Defendant’s Motion to Include Evidence, 21 December 2021, at pp. 49–52
and 121–124 · No. DR-20-382383
See also.These are not different periods. In
April 2021 he told the court he was making $300 to $400 a
month and could not take on clients. This report, filed in December, claims that across
the same year he expanded the firm into three states, built its entire digital
infrastructure and sent 476,000 emails. Both are his own statements to
the same court.
1 – 2 September 2022 · The attack, and the byline
William Easton Horner cyber attacked a courthouse, then bragged about it as CTO of
Millennial Realty and Investments
Nine months after telling the court he had built an email engine capable of half a million
sends a year, he used one against the Cuyahoga County Courthouse on the morning his ex-wife’s
protection-order hearing was listed. He pleaded guilty.
The day after, he published an account of it on LinkedIn — and signed
it with the job:
“Easton Horner · CTO at Millennial Realty and Investments /
White Hat Hacker”
The article describes the method in the language of the trade — a
CRON job sending “two emails a minute…every minute…round
the clock,” fired from three servers, and a closing section of
“Good Faith Suggestions for Improvement from Attacking White Hat.” It was
later filed in court against him.
The engine he described to the court in 2021 was built for a brokerage, and
the attack came in 2022. No court has found that the two are the same system,
and this page does not say they are. What the record shows is the same person, the same claimed
skills, and the same job title on both.
His article of 2 September 2022, filed as Exhibit BB to the complaint of
12 October 2022 · No. CV-22-969917
William Easton Horner repeatedly used his technology expertise to threaten people
In three separate disputes he offered the same currency — not a legal argument, but his
technical capability.
To a city law department, 23 September 2022, over records he wanted:
“either produce the documents or I am going to use my superior
cybersecurity skill and training, penetrate your firewalls, and tear the information
out by force. I will then leave your servers in a melting heap of slag.”
He copied roughly forty city employees, and signed it “Easton Horner, Attorney
Pro Se.”The recorded offense date for ten counts of telecommunications
harassment and intimidation is the following day.
To a hospital’s lawyer, 9 May 2023, over discovery:
“be advised I am fully authorized to crack the digital security of
SVCMC and extract through Cyberforce those documents and evidence needed… Not
making a threat, just making you fully aware of my minuteman credentials.”
He had used the same formula on the Cleveland Clinic seven months earlier, threatening to
“use his MinuteMan cybersecurity clearances to extract” its records.
Both institutions obtained protection orders against him, as did his
victims’ law firm.
No. CV-22-965121, motion of 5 October 2022 · No. CV-22-971495, email of
9 May 2023 · Rocky River Municipal Court, No. CRB 2401647
A corporation registered at his parents’ address, dissolved unfiled
Spent Grains Brewpub and Pizzeria Inc, file no. 001423180,
was incorporated in Tennessee on 4 May 2023 with
William Easton Horner as sole principal and registered agent. Its principal
office was 3902 Emerald Avenue, Morristown —
property owned by his parents. The 2024 annual report was never
filed and the corporation was administratively dissolved.
Registering a company is not wrongdoing and nothing suggests it traded.
It is here because it is part of the employment record, and because it is a third independent
record system placing him at that address.
Tennessee Secretary of State business entity record, file no. 001423180 ·
tnbear.tn.gov
Captured 4 and 19 August 2026 · The firm’s own page
Millennial Realty and Investments still lists him — as a “retired” broker
running its technology
Their brokers page describes him under the heading
“Retired Broker / ARIEA Technology”:
“Easton is a retired broker who now focuses on the ARIEA
technology layer. He builds the data systems, valuation tape, scoring logic, hot sheets, and
deal packages that help MRI evaluate investment opportunities with stronger evidence.”
The contact block on that page gives williamehorner@gmail.com — the
same address on every filing in this record. The page was captured twice, fifteen days apart,
and is word-for-word identical on both.
The listing, as it stood on 19 August 2026. The address of the
page is printed along the top of every sheet and the date and time along the bottom.
The whole page is reproduced, exactly as captured — nothing altered,
nothing covered, nothing left out. The photograph, the telephone number and both email
addresses are the firm’s own publication.
Open all nine pages
Neither state’s regulator lists him as a licensed broker. The North
Carolina Real Estate Commission’s public register — which holds every
active and inactive license in the state — does not contain him. In
Tennessee he was licensed on 20 May 2021, five weeks after
telling the divorce court he was working to become licensed there, and he
held it as principal broker of his own firm. The Commission’s record now
shows that license expired on 19 May 2023, and carries an
“Errors & Omissions Suspension” alert.
Tennessee requires every active licensee to carry errors-and-omissions insurance,
and suspends the license of anyone who does not. It is automatic. The statute also provides that
a suspended license will not be renewed — which is what the record shows
happened.
“Retired” is the firm’s word, and the page gives no
reason for it. Nothing here establishes why he stopped practicing. North Carolina has
no retired license status at all; Tennessee does, and reaching it takes a filing
with the Commission — his record shows expired instead. The Commission’s record does
not date the suspension. No allegation is made against the firm or against anyone else
named on its page, none of whom is mentioned in any court record on this site.
millennialrealtyandinvestments.com/brokers.php, captured 4 August and
19 August 2026 · Tennessee Dept. of Commerce & Insurance license verification, No.
361535 · North Carolina Real Estate Commission licensee search ·
T.C.A. § 62-13-112
