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Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters as penance for phony robocalls . .
. . . targeting black voters
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2022/11/jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-must-spend-500-hours-registering-voters-as-penance-for-phony-robocalls-targeting-black-voters-in-cleveland.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two right-wing conspiracy theorists behind robocalls that sought to intimidate Black voters here out of casting mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula placed each on two years of probation, fined each $2,500 and ordered them to wear GPS ankle monitors with home confinement beginning at 8 p.m. each day for the first six months of their probation.
. . .
Gutierrez said that Wohl admitted to probation officers during a pre-sentencing investigation that the robocall scheme was “a political stunt meant for attention and profit.”
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation identified 12 people who received the calls who were willing to testify had the case gone to trial, Gutierrez said.
After the hearing, Gutierrez told reporters that the call amounted to voter intimidation and suppression.
“We’ve made convicted felons out of these two conspiracy theorists who did a political stunt that actually worked,” Gutierrez said.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge John Sutula placed each on two years of probation, fined each $2,500 and ordered them to wear GPS ankle monitors with home confinement beginning at 8 p.m. each day for the first six months of their probation.
. . .
Gutierrez said that Wohl admitted to probation officers during a pre-sentencing investigation that the robocall scheme was “a political stunt meant for attention and profit.”
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation identified 12 people who received the calls who were willing to testify had the case gone to trial, Gutierrez said.
After the hearing, Gutierrez told reporters that the call amounted to voter intimidation and suppression.
“We’ve made convicted felons out of these two conspiracy theorists who did a political stunt that actually worked,” Gutierrez said.
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