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New York Attorney General Letitia James has moved to take legal action against two notorious conspiracists who used threatening robocalls to target and suppress Black voters. According to a press release provided to theGrio, approximately 5,500 New Yorkers were subjected to discriminatory and harassing robocalls ahead of the 2020 election. James filed a request to intervene in a federal court proceeding against two conspiracy theorists over their voter suppression efforts. An investigation conducted by the Office of the Attorney General found that Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman hid behind a sham organization, “Project 1599,” and violated state and federal laws by orchestrating robocalls to threaten and harass Black communities. ....
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia Jamesannounced on Thursday that the state is seeking to join an existing action against Wohl and his similarly bungling tag team partner-in-ineptitude, Jack Burkman, over a robocall scheme designed “to suppress Black voters ahead of the 2020 election.” That action has been brought by a civil rights organization in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Wohl and Burkman are already facing charges in Michigan and Ohio in connection with the robocalls. They are accused of contacting some 85,000 voters in urban areas across the country and providing them with false information about voting. The calls were intended to discourage people from voting via mail by spreading lies about arrest warrants, debt collection, and “mandatory vaccines.” ....
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EXCLUSIVE: Fake news tricksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are subpoenaed in New York over their voter suppression robocall campaign, as state gets ready to join Ohio and Michigan in prosecuting pro-Trump pair Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General over a voter suppression robocall campaign, DailyMail.com can reveal The subpoenas order the men to turn over material to the New York Attorney General’s Office by 10am on January 5, 2021 Wohl, 22, and Burkman, 54, set up robocalls that phoned more than 80,000 people across the US in late August The calls aimed to dissuade voters from mailing their ballots for the November election, targeting mainly black neighborhoods, according to prosecutors ....