The Daily Beast reports:
Michigan state officials are investigating a voter-suppression robocall allegedly tied to blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman.
The robocall was aimed at scaring Detroit voters away from using mail-in ballots, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson tweeted on Thursday. Benson announced that her office and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel would investigate the call’s origins and “seek justice” against the people behind it.
The “Project 1599” cited in the robocall is the name of a nebulous political organization run by Wohl and Burkman, a play on the address of the home Burkman owns in Northern Virginia that plays host to bizarre press conferences in Burkman’s driveway. But Wohl and Burkman deny any involvement in the robocalls.
Wohl and associate Jack Burkman claim they’re not behind this robocall. But they’ve used robocalls before. In ’19, Wohl sent me a robocall Burkman recorded in an apparently failed effort to offer a cash reward for proof of Joe Biden saying a racial slur. https://t.co/GNltCgnDJA
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 27, 2020
Update: Whoever is behind the voter suppression call that claims to be from Jacob Wohl could face 5 years in prison, according to Michigan’s attorney general. https://t.co/GNltCgnDJA
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) August 27, 2020