{"id":176007,"date":"2020-10-01T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/01\/boy-this-is-turning-into-a-sh-show\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:06:00","slug":"boy-this-is-turning-into-a-sh-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/01\/boy-this-is-turning-into-a-sh-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, This is Turning into a Sh%$ Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale creates the most convincing shirtless suspect audition tape for an episode of Cops ever<\/a>, and now serial securities fraudster Jacob Wohl, and his partner in crime Jack Burkman, have been charged with election fraud and face the prospect of decades in prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The wheels really do seem to be coming off of Trump’s Evil Minions\u2122 right now:<\/p>\n

Conservative operatives Jacob Wohl<\/a> and Jack Burkman were charged on Thursday for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November presidential election, Michigan authorities said. <\/p>\n

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a slew of charges against Burkman, 54, and Wohl, 22, including conspiracy to commit an election law violation and using a computer to commit the crime of election law – intimidating voters. Prosecutors allege the two political operatives were using a robocall system aimed at scaring Detroit voters away from using mail-in voting ballots. The calls, which were made in August, went out to nearly 12,000 Detroit residents. <\/p>\n

Both Wohl and Burkman face four felony counts and a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.<\/p>\n

The voice on the call attributed to Wohl and Burkman attempts to trick listeners into not sending in mail-in ballots, falsely warning that the information would be used to track fugitives, collect on credit card debts, and enforce \u201cmandatory vaccines.\u201d The calls also told residents to \u201cbeware of vote by mail.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n

Wohl and Burkman didn\u2019t respond to immediate requests for comment. In August, Burkman denied being behind the robocall, claiming it was suspicious that it was connected to his personal cell phone number.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one in their right mind would put their own cell on a robocall,\u201d Burkman told The Daily Beast.
<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ummmm \u2026\u2026\u2026We’ve seen your other frauds and scams<\/a> (also here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) <\/p>\n

You areally ARE<\/b> that f%$#ing stupid. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The attorney general’s office added that during the investigation into the robocalls, investigators communicated with officials in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois\u2014all of whom reported similar robocalls being made to residents in their states. All the calls, they said, were made to residents in \u201curban areas with significant minority populations,\u201d the Michigan attorney general’s office said.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

The Michigan charges aren\u2019t the only legal charges facing the pair. Wohl has been charged with two felonies over alleged violations of California securities law. On Saturday, The Daily Beast reported<\/a> on a secret FBI investigation into Wohl and Burkman over the leak of confidential juror questionnaires and grand jury testimony in the trial of Trump associate Roger Stone.<\/p>\n

Wohl and Burkman became notorious online in 2018, after a failed attempt to manufacture a sexual assault allegation against Robert Mueller collapsed in spectacular fashion. Since then, they have tried to create hoaxes against other Trump opponents, but the schemes always fail almost immediately, often due to Wohl and Burkman\u2019s own errors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously, these folks are flipping out. <\/p>\n

My deepest wish is that the inevitable shrapnel that results from their flying to pieces so spectacularly only injures their fellow travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale creates the most convincing shirtless suspect audition tape for an episode of Cops ever, and now serial securities fraudster Jacob Wohl, and his partner in crime Jack Burkman, have been charged with election fraud and face the prospect of decades in prison. The wheels really do seem to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,575,578,407,406,639,403,421],"class_list":["post-176007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-fraud","tag-incompetence","tag-justice","tag-stupid","tag-voting","tag-wanker","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}