Right-Wing Operatives Plead Guilty in Voter-Suppression Scheme

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two right-wing political operatives have pleaded guilty in Ohio to a telecommunications fraud charge for arranging thousands of robocalls that falsely claimed that the information voters included with mail ballots could be used by law enforcement and debt collectors, prosecutors said.

The operatives, Jacob Wohl, 24, of Los Angeles, and Jack Burkman, 56, of Arlington, Va., entered their pleas on Monday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland, prosecutors said.

The men were indicted in 2020 after they were accused of using the robocalls to intimidate residents in minority neighborhoods to refrain from voting by mail at a time when many voters were reluctant to cast ballots in person because of the coronavirus pandemic. The calls also claimed that the government could use mail-in voting information to track people for mandatory vaccination programs, prosecutors said.

“These individuals infringed upon the right to vote, which is one of the most fundamental components of our democracy,” the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, Michael C. O’Malley, said in a statement announcing the guilty pleas on Monday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/right-wing-operatives-plead-guilty-in-voter-suppression-scheme/ar-AA13mLIn

[Coventina]

1. How are these dopes not in prison already?

[marble falls]

2. Jacob Wohl is a nitwit. He just thinks he's an operative. He's going to jail in at least two ...

... jurisdictions. And I am so good with that. He should have been canned the last time.

[Takket]

3. i remember reading about this at the time....

that was TWO YEARS ago now and they are only just pleading guilty today? WTF took so long to get this in front of a judge?

Regardless, eff them both. complete scumbags. they better not just get a slap on the wrist.

[Hassler]

4. Lock. Them. Up.