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Just what I've always wanted -- a calendar of two scantly clad Odessa 5's hanging up on my kitchen wall!

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  On 12/24/2020 at 4:16 AM, Biff Tannen said:

I didn’t even realize they were in jail, so this bump was pretty good for me. 

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It was like they insisted on going to jail.  A year straight of doing everything they could to acquire felonies.

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  On 5/12/2021 at 10:50 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Wait, when did they get out of jail?  I rely on this thread to keep me up to date and the last post still had them nestled in their cells snug as a bug.

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Detroit Magistrate Joseph Boyer set bond Thursday for conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman at $100,000 in a voter intimidation case, even as the attorney general's office argued for a $1 million bond and Burkman's lawyer called the charges "a publicity stunt."

Wohl and Burkman on Thursday turned themselves in at the Detroit Detention Center. Assistant Attorney General Richard Cunningham said they "made a mockery of our system of government" and came with a camera crew and hundred dollar bills to pay the bond. 

The evidence will show there have been ongoing efforts by Burkman and Wohl to affect the upcoming election, Cunningham said, noting prosecution had witness testimony and email and phone records to support the charges. 

Jacob Wohl
 

"What we want is to get their attention and to hold something over their head that if they engage in this type of conduct in the future, in the next few weeks, they'll not only be subject to further criminal prosecution, but they'll lose a lot of money," he said. 

In addition to a $100,000 bond, Wohl and Burkman were prohibited from initiating any further robocalls or other mass communication to voters through Nov. 4. 

 
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Let's check in and see what our old friend Jacob Wohl is up to these days.    

 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/22/23273280/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-predator-dc-film-shoot-assault-allegations-payment

 

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 Right wing activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are known for political stunts, including bizarre attempts to apparently engineer sex scandals around high-profile political figures. They’re facing criminal charges in multiple states over an alleged election robocalling scheme. But in recent months, employees say the pair have also been responsible for a bizarre and dangerous environment on the set of their Washington, DC-based imitation of To Catch a Predator.

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Three former Wohl and Burkman employees went on the record with The Verge to speak about the third season of Predator DC, a web series that promised to ensnare high-profile sexual predators with sting operations around the DC metropolitan area. In interviews and on social media, they describe being stranded in a Maryland Airbnb under hellish working conditions, subjected to sexual assault by the show’s targets or physical assault by Wohl himself. When they complained, they allege Wohl and Burkman denied them thousands of dollars in promised payments and harassed them. 

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Over email, the team behind Predator DC denied the assault claim against Wohl. “Ms. Spealman invented these false allegations as retribution for her dismissal from the show,” said a statement attributed to Wohl.

It’s a bleak reminder of how the new online blend of politics and entertainment can chew up workers and how few options they still have for reporting abuse. In most cases of workplace misconduct, victims’ last resort is going public — but for provocateurs like Wohl and Burkman, all publicity is good publicity.

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The calls were among more than 85,000 total that prosecutors said specifically targeted minority voters in heavily democratic areas in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland.

 
 

Several states expanded the use of absentee voting to accommodate voters weary of casting their ballots in person at crowded precincts during the coronavirus pandemic.

 
 

Sutula last month denied a motion filed by the men’s attorneys asking Sutula to find the robocalls were protected by the First Amendment and to throw out the charges.

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A couple of Roger Stone wannabees.

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You should hear the calls, especially those placed to Detroit area minority voters. I hope they become birthday cake for the whole cell block in prison.

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  On 7/23/2022 at 12:43 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

Let's check in and see what our old friend Jacob Wohl is up to these days.    

 

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/22/23273280/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-predator-dc-film-shoot-assault-allegations-payment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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So wait...the FCC suggested a 5.1 million fine and they're getting 2500 in a plea deal? And best case is a year in jail, which means they'll spend 3 months?


Someone please tell me an FCC fine will be independent of this court plea deal bullshit. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 4:46 PM, SydneyCarton said:

So wait...the FCC suggested a 5.1 million fine and they're getting 2500 in a plea deal? And best case is a year in jail, which means they'll spend 3 months?


Someone please tell me an FCC fine will be independent of this court plea deal bullshit. 

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It would be.  That's an Ohio state prosecution, nothing to do with the FCC.

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once again... if i looked around and saw i was on the same 'team' as these people, i'd seriously be questioning my ideology 🙄

then again, i'm deeply self-reflective.

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  On 10/25/2022 at 5:59 PM, mchookem said:

once again... if i looked around and saw i was on the same 'team' as these people, i'd seriously be questioning my ideology 🙄

then again, i'm deeply self-reflective.

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You dont understand how little those people see these folks in their "news."

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These two were hilarious there for a long while. The jailbait sting? Not sure whether to point and laugh at these two again and extend that to all involved or to take pity on the “actress” and the “producer.” They might have certain powers of persuasion Wohl lacks. Judging by research spurred on by a post up thread. 
 

Anyway the voter fraud thing should have landed them in prison for at least five years 

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He's not aged well.  You can go upthread and see some of my thirsty posts.  I hereby retract them.  He didn't have a long shelf life.

But I will never not find the banjo player outside one of his "press conferences" hilarious.

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Didn’t Karl Rove engineer similar disinformation campaigns in minority communities back in 2000? My recollection is that he was sending out mailers that listed the date of Election Day being a week later than it actually was, or something like that. I recall my staunchly Republican older brother dismissing it by pointing out that he was doing it in Democratic districts and I was like, duh, he’s not going to use disinformation to try to flip a Republican district. I did a brief online search but most of the hits were related to the 2020 election or just Rove in general.

Anyone else remember that?

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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 suppression campaign four years ago that used robocalls to spread election-related misinformation to Black voters and others in an effort to discourage voting.

A federal judge found the two men liable last year for targeting Black voters in New York, saying in a lengthy ruling that they “set into motion a full-scale voter suppression operation during the summer of 2020 to discourage eligible voters from voting by targeting mail-in voting in the 2020 Election.”

Under the deal reached by Wohl and Burkman with James’ office, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and several individual plaintiffs, the two men have agreed to pay a $1 million judgment to those parties, according to the attorney general. If the pair “fail to pay at least $105,000 by December 31, 2024, and do not address the failure to pay within 30 days, the amount will increase to $1.25 million,” James’ office said.

“Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate,” James said in a statement. “My office will always defend the right to vote.”

A judge must still approve the agreement.

David Schwartz, an attorney for Wohl and Burkman, said his clients are satisfied with the settlement and are “pleased to put this case behind them, so they can focus on their families and careers.”

As part of their voter suppression campaign in New York, Wohl and Burkman targeted Black voters in the state through robocalls “falsely claiming that voting by mail would cause the voter to be tracked for outstanding warrants, credit card debt, and mandatory vaccines,” James’ office said. An estimated 5,500 people received the calls.

According to James’ office, the script of one such call told recipients in part: “Mail-in voting sounds great, but did you know that if you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debts?”

Wohl and Burkman have previously faced penalties for running similar schemes elsewhere during the 2020 election. In 2022, an Ohio judge ordered the two men to spend 500 hours registering low- and middle-income voters in the Washington, DC, area after authorities in Ohio accused them of running a voter suppression campaign in multiple states.

And in 2021, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a record $5 million fine against them after an investigation found they appeared to have violated US robocalling laws.

Other criminal charges against Wohl and Burkman are pending in Michigan.

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  On 4/9/2024 at 10:44 PM, Gil Bang said:

If the pair “fail to pay at least $105,000 by December 31, 2024, and do not address the failure to pay within 30 days, the amount will increase to $1.25 million,” James’ office said.

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Lol over 7 fucking months to start payment

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Let's check in on our boys and see how they're doing!!!!  Oh . . . oops.  Not so good apparently. 

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