Tag Archives: Jacob Wohl

The Michigan Advance reports: The Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a lower court’s decision which upheld criminal charges against Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, two far-right operatives who are accused of orchestrating a robocall election misinformation campaign in multiple states ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Investigators who’ve looked into the robocalls across Michigan, Ohio and …

Law & Crime reports: Right-wing scammers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are facing a $5 million lawsuit by a Washington, D.C., elementary school teacher over an alleged plot to cast him as a pedophile in a video sting in the style of “To Catch a Predator,” a reality TV series in which men arriving at a house to have sex …

Detroit’s CBS affiliate reports: The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled to uphold charges against two men accused of issuing robocalls to intimidate Detroit voters during the 2020 election. The court ruled there was enough evidence to show that the robocalls issued by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl were “intentionally false,” according to a news release. The decision comes after the …

Politico reports: A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business, according to four former employees as well as photo and email evidence. LobbyMatic was founded last year by Jacob Wohl, who in 2022 was …

Lansing’s CBS affiliate reports: Two men charged with voter intimidation in a 2020 robocall scheme were properly criminally charged by the Office of the Michigan Attorney General, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Jack Burkman, 57, and Jacob Wohl, 25, were charged in October 2020 “for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote of predominantly black …

CNN reports: Conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office and others for running a voter suppression campaign targeting Black voters during the 2020 election. The deal announced Tuesday by state Attorney General Letitia James represents the latest punishment the pair will face for orchestrating a broad voter …

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 …

Detroit’s CBS affiliate reports: On Thursday, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office gave oral arguments before the Michigan Supreme Court in the case of two men accused of being responsible for thousands of robocalls that attempted to discourage Detroit-area residents from voting by mail in 2020. Jack Burkman, of Arlington, Virginia, and Jacob Wohl, of Los Angeles, California, are both charged …

Law & Crime reports: This past March, a federal judge in New York found that Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman violated the Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan Act. The scathing ruling left only one remaining issue to determine at trial — how much the duo must pay in damages for their conduct. In a pretrial memorandum on Thursday, …

The Daily Dot reports: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially fined right-wing influencer Jacob Wohl $5 million. At the time it was proposed, it was the largest amount ever under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Wohl, along with his partner Jack Burkman, used robocalls to attempt to convince people of color that they could be arrested if they voted …

Law & Crime reports: Right-wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman’s robocalls targeting Black voters violated the Voting Rights Act and Ku Klux Klan Act — and the question isn’t close enough to require a jury, a federal judge ruled. He found that the evidence “establishes that the neighborhoods that Defendants targeted were not accidental or random,” finding that a …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two right-wing conspiracy theorists behind robocalls that sought to intimidate Black voters here out of casting mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area. Judge John Sutula placed each on two years …

The Associated Press reports: The Michigan Supreme Court agreed to take an appeal from two conservative political activists who were charged with crimes for robocalls that tried to discourage Black Detroit voters from mailing their ballots in the 2020 election. The court said Wednesday it wants to focus on whether a state law used against Jack Burkman of Arlington, Virginia, …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: Two right-wing conspiracy theorists who placed thousands of robocalls with false information to largely minority and Democratic voters in Cleveland in the months before the November 2020 election pleaded guilty on Monday to a felony charge. Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, face a maximum of a year …

First, a reminder about the case: Jacob Wohl, a conservative activist known for his largely bumbling attempts to stage political scandals, has been charged with running a robocalling scheme to spread false election information. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed four felony charges today against Wohl and his partner Jack Burkman. They’re accused of targeting Detroit residents with calls that …

The Daily Beast reports: Serial MAGA fraudster Jack Burkman has embarked on a new political venture: a website styled after celebrity gossip outlet TMZ—right down to the trademarked logo—that is smearing Democratic Reps. Conor Lamb and Eric Swalwell. Flyers posted Thursday around Capitol Hill and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., offer a $10,000 reward for information about an unsubstantiated …

Law & Crime reports: Facing criminal prosecution in two states, hard-right hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman had their civil liabilities dramatically expand on Wednesday, with a federal judge giving the green light to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) effort to stick them and others with a $2.75 million fine for robocalls allegedly designed for voter suppression. “There …

The Daily Beast reports: New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that her office has filed a lawsuit against bumbling right-wing conspiracy theorists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman over robocalls the pair allegedly made to suppress the Black vote ahead of the 2020 presidential election. James says 5,500 New Yorkers were affected; she’s asking for Wohl and Burkman to …

The Michigan Advance reports: Judge Margaret Van Houten of the state’s Third Circuit Court has rejected a motion by far-right conspiracy theorists and political operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl to quash information and dismiss the robocall intimidation case against the pair.  The defendants are each charged with one count of intimidating voters, a five-year felony; one count of conspiracy …

Law & Crime reports: Hard-right hoaxers Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman had wanted to pause a civil suit accusing them of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act through robocalls targeting Black voters until their criminal cases over the same conduct had ended. “It is also important to note that elections occur periodically,” U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero wrote in a …