After decades of dubious vote suppression efforts, a history of fraudulent business practices, and the wholehearted support of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", the law has finally caught up with serial con men Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman.
Wohl was banned by the National Futures Association from trading for life before he was old enough to drink.
Both of them have been repeatedly implicated in political and financial fraud repeatedly:
Two right-wing operatives pleaded guilty on Monday in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of false robocalls in Ohio that told people they could be arrested or be forced to receive vaccinations based on information they submitted in votes by mail.
Jacob Wohl, 24, of Irvine, California, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Virginia, could each receive a year in prison when they are sentenced Nov. 29 in common pleas court. They were indicted in October 2020 on numerous counts of telecommunications fraud and bribery.
Wohl’s attorney, Mark Wieczorek, declined to comment about the his client’s plea. Burkman’s attorney, Brian Joslyn, did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment.
The two men were accused of arranging for a voice broadcast service to make about 85,000 robocalls to predominantly Black neighborhoods in Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois during the runup to the 2020 general election. Prosecutors said the pair were responsible for 3,500 calls to residents of Cleveland and East Cleveland.
I really hope that the plea deal includes a requirement to cooperate with further investigations, because someone has been knowingly funding their fraudulent activities.
There was a whole network behind their activities, and they knew Wohl's and Burkman's criminal methods, and they continued to support them in any number of ways.
That's a criminal conspiracy, and it should be pursued as far as the trail leads.
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