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.)

 

Republican Crime Blotter -- Risible Ratfuckers' Edition

 

Professional (no offense to "professionals") Republican ratfuckers Jacob "Asshole" Wohl and Jack "Fly" Burkman have managed to get caught in another fraudulent scheme:

After already having been indicted in Michigan for a robocall scheme to intimidate urban-area voters with misinformation, the fabulously inept duo of Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have now been indicted in Cuyahoga County for the same scheme.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost's office referred the case to local prosecutors.

Congresswoman Marcia Fudge was among those who noted after the Michigan case was unveiled that similar calls had been reported in Cleveland.

Wohl and Burkman face eight counts of telecommunications fraud and seven counts of bribery.

This is the same dynamic duo that tried to get Pete Buttigieg framed for sexual assault.  That was shortly after they failed to get Robert Mueller framed for a similarly bogus charge (but did manage to make a laughingstock of Burkman, who appeared at the news conference laying out the accusations with his fly down).  Oh, and there was their ludicrous attempt to link Sen. Elizabeth Warren to a younger ex- Marine boy toy (which the Senator dispatched with a witty "Go, Cougars!" shout out to her University of Houston alma mater's mascot).  If these duds were smart, they might be dangerous.

But, for their latest capers, they've graduated from performance art ratfuckery to multiple felony counts in both Michigan and Ohio.  They're due their day in court, after which we say, "Lock them up, lock them up!"

(Photo:  Wohl and Burkman -- psst, Jack, what do birds do?)