{"id":50605,"date":"2023-03-10T07:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=50605"},"modified":"2023-03-10T07:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T12:15:43","slug":"two-conspiracy-theorists-who-tried-to-suppress-black-vote-in-2020-lose-lawsuit-by-ny-attorney-general-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/two-conspiracy-theorists-who-tried-to-suppress-black-vote-in-2020-lose-lawsuit-by-ny-attorney-general-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Conspiracy Theorists Who Tried to Suppress Black Vote in 2020 Lose Lawsuit by NY Attorney General james"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Letitia James<\/p><\/div>\n

Two conspiracy theorists who tried to suppress Black voters ahead of the 2020 election have lost a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

James filed a lawsuit in federal court against Jacob Wohl<\/strong> and Jack Burkman<\/strong> in May 2021 after an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General<\/strong> (OAG) found that Wohl and Burkman, while hiding behind their organization \u201cProject 1599<\/strong>,\u201d violated state and federal laws by orchestrating robocalls to threaten and harass Black communities through disinformation, including claims that mail-in voters would have their personal information disseminated to law enforcement, debt collectors, and the government.<\/p>\n

The Wohl and Burkman robocall campaign reached approximately 5,500 New Yorkers. Damages and relief will be determined at a later date.<\/p>\n

In August 2022, Attorney General James announced a settlement with robocalling platform Message Communications<\/strong> for its role in sending out the illegal robocall designed by Wohl and Burkman.<\/p>\n

Wohl and Burkman robocalled roughly 85,000 voters across Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n

In Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court<\/strong> sentenced them in November 2022 to two years of probation, six months of monitoring with a GPS ankle bracelet, $2,500 each in fines and 500 hours of registering voters in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two conspiracy theorists who tried to suppress Black voters ahead of the 2020 election have lost a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. James filed a lawsuit in federal court against Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman in May 2021 after an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) found that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":48699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[13033,13030,13029,8699,13032,11083,13031],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Letitia-James-AG.jpg?fit=429%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-dad","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50606,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50605\/revisions\/50606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}