MI Supreme Court Hears Case Of Racist Robocallers

November 10, 2023 Extremists, Trump cultists

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 with the following: One count of election law – bribing/intimidating voters, one count of conspiracy to commit an election law violation, one count of using a computer to commit the crime of election law – intimidating voters, using a computer to commit the crime of conspiracy.

The Michigan Advance reports:

In New York, a federal judge found that Burkman and Wohl violated several federal and state civil rights laws in the robocall scheme, including the Ku Klux Klan Act, which prohibits interfering with a qualified voter’s right to participate in an election. In Ohio, a judge ordered Burkman and Wohl to spend 500 hours registering members of minority and low-income communities to vote in November 2022, among other repercussions, after pleading guilty to one count of telecommunications fraud. “The defendants in this case are not sympathetic,” Timothy Doman, attorney for Burkman told the Supreme Court justices, noting he is not attempting to defend the motives of his client, but rather to address that the election laws they are charged under are ill-equipped to address current election practices.

In July 2023 the pair was fined $5.1 million by the Federal Elections Commission for their racist robocalls in which a woman calling herself Tamika Taylor falsely warned, among other claims, that voting by mail would alert credit card companies to seek outstanding debts. In the above-cited New York case, the state is seeking a $2.5 million fine.

Wohl appeared on JMG in September 2020 when he showed up outside the Supreme Court with a bullhorn to ridicule those mourning the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 

In 2019, Wohl earned national headlines for falsely reporting death threats against himself and Loony Laura Loomer while in Minneapolis to “investigate” Rep. Ilhan Omar. In fact, the death threats Wohl showed to local police came from a Twitter account he had created.

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.



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