Notorious Cultists Hit With $11M Racketeering Suit

February 6, 2024 Extremists, Trump cultists

The Daily Beast reports:

In the fetid swamp of far-right politics, two names are infamous for having unleashed a torrent of particularly ludicrous stunts, lies, and scams. Now, one of the pair’s targets is fighting back. A Marine veteran and attorney claims his life fell apart after Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman falsely tarred him in a 2021 video as a child sex predator, according to an $11 million racketeering lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast.

In the aftermath, the unidentified Maryland man was let go from his law firm, lost a paid internship at Johns Hopkins University, was thrown out by his landlord, and forced him into bankruptcy, the lawsuit states. “John Doe” contends in the suit that Wohl and his co-defendant, soon-to-be-disbarred lawyer Jack Burkman, caused “irreparable harm” by laying waste to his reputation, wrecking his ability to earn a living, and turning him into a “critical casualty” of their “ongoing, illegal scheme.”

Reuters reports: 

Burkman and Wohl, pleaded guilty in October 2022 to telecommunications fraud after using robocalls to intimidate people from voting by mail during the 2020 U.S. presidential election. They were sentenced to two years of probation, fined each $2,500, and work 500 hours of community service. The U.S. Federal Communications Commissions in June 2023 hit Burkman and Wohl with a $5.1 million fine for making more than 1,100 unlawful robocalls in August and September 2020.

According to the suit, Wohl and Burkman lured the plaintiff to a DC apartment as part of their “Predator DC” web series and falsely accused him of seeking to meet up with a teenage girl.

But in fact the woman posing as his Tinder match “Sarah” had stated, the plaintiff says, that she was 36 years old. The plaintiff says that upon his arrival, he was surrounded by five men, including Wohl and Burkman, who prevented him from leaving at gunpoint.

The now-deleted “Predator DC” episode reportedly accused the plaintiff of being a “disgusting pedophile.”

As many longtime JMG readers will surely recall, during the 2016 campaign Wohl and Burkman hired actors to falsely accuse multiple prominent Democrats and Robert Mueller of various sexual offenses. In addition to the conviction noted above, Wohl and Burkman are awaiting a ruling on multiple felony charges in Michigan.



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