Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters as penance for phony robocalls ...

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Source: The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer

Courts and Justice

Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters as penance for phony robocalls targeting Black voters in Cleveland

Published: Nov. 29, 2022, 2:47 p.m.



Jack Burkman, left, and Jacob Wohl, right, shown here at a September court hearing where they pleaded guilty to a felony telecommunications fraud charge tied to a series of robocalls containing false information about mail-in voting they made before the November 2020 election that targeted largely minority and Democratic cities. Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com

By Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com

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.

Sutula, 71, said that most of the civil rights advances in the United States have occurred in his lifetime. He compared the men's effort to those who used violence to suppress southern Black voters in the 1960s. ... "I think it's a despicable thing that you guys have done," he said.

Wohl, 24, and Burkman, 56, attended the hearing via Zoom along with their attorneys. When given the chance to address their charges in court for the first time since they were charged, each man was brief.

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What did those neighborhoods ever do to this judge

" A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman...to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area." https://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

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[GentryDixon]

1. I would not trust them with this task. They're scam artists. 😬

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. They'll be supervised. NT

[Coventina]

3. Too right! Ok you lousy foxes! You must now guard the henhouse!!

[riversedge]

5. i thought the same-they need someone reliable and honest with them.

[marble falls]

4. No jail? This isn't their first run in.

[Midnight Writer]

6. They need jailtime. They will turn this into a stunt.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

7. I bet they only register 2 people.

and they will be GQP members

[riversedge]

8. "ordered them to wear GPS ankle monitors with home confinement beginning at 8 p.m. each day for the

Good. They will have early nights for 6 months.--and ankle monitors. te he.


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.

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



Sutula, 71, said that most of the civil rights advances in the United States have occurred in his lifetime. He compared the men’s effort to those who used violence to suppress southern Black voters in the 1960s.

“I think it’s a despicable thing that you guys have done,” he said.

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The men each faced a maximum sentence of one year in prison after they pleaded guilty in September to a telecommunications fraud, a fifth-degree felony. The charge is connected to thousands of robocalls placed in Cleveland in the run-up to the 2020 election between then-President Donald Trump and the Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This makes me smile

[Hela]

10. I actually laughed out loud when I read that headline.

I think Judge Sutula may be a fan of "The Mikado."

"My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time –
To let the punishment fit the crime –
The punishment fit the crime!
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment –
Of innocent merriment!"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. That passage entered my mind too. NT

[Bengus81]

12. Ridiculous BS sentance for what they actually did