Republican Crime Blotter: Dirty Trickster Poetic Justice Edition

 

LOL:

In the summer of 2020, tens of thousands of people across five states received robocalls urging them not to vote by mail. The calls falsely warned that mailing in their ballots that fall could lead to their information being harvested by police, debt collectors or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ohio prosecutors in October 2020 charged right-wing operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl with telecommunications fraud in connection with the scheme, and two years later, the two men pleaded guilty.

Now, they have their punishment: They must spend 500 hours helping register people to vote.

Judge John Sutula in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court also sentenced Burkman and Wohl to two years of probation, fines of $2,500 each and electronic monitoring from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. for six months, according to the county prosecutor’s office.

“I think it’s a despicable thing that you guys have done,” the judge said on Tuesday, comparing the robocall scam to efforts to suppress Southern Black voters in the 1960s, Cleveland.com reported... (our emphasis)

It's satisfying that, as part of their punishment, they'll be spending time helping register people to vote.  That's what's called poetic justice.

Burkman and his protege Wohl have been engaging in "pranks" and spreading lies for years about, for example, Robert Mueller, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and a (bogus) FBI raid on Burkman's home.  Related cases in Michigan and New York are ongoing, and they face a $5 million fine from the FCC for the robocall scheme.

(Photo:  Wohl and Burkman -- who's laughing now, asshole? / Cuyahoga Sheriff's Dept.)