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Jacob Wohl, Jack Burkman must spend 500 hours registering voters as penance for phony robocalls ...
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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Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/court-jus...alls-targeting-black-voters-in-cleveland.html
