New York’s attorney general wrote to a federal judge on Thursday, asking to be tagged into an ongoing lawsuit against the right-wing hucksters Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who allegedly sent robocalls targeting Black voters in an attempt to suppress voter turnout ahead of the 2020 election.
Talk him down Emo!
(MST3K fans will get it)
Amateurs. Roger Stone would be embarrassed by their ineptitude. Throw the book at them.
among other steps including a financial penalty of $500 for each violation of New York civil rights law committed against New Yorkers who received the robocall.
5500 NY calls mentioned, that’s $2.75 million. That’ll leave a mark, and will leave them without resources for further shenanigans. But stick their sorry asses in jail anyways. It’s the only deterrent that matters with white collar criminials and politcal operative wannabes.
I’m rather baffled as to why this isn’t also a federal criminal case?
IIRC the feds have shown an interest, but are letting the various states have their bites at the asses. If I get to choose I’d rather see them rot in a state prison than in club fed.
It’s not Cancel Culture.
It’s Accountability Culture.
Aren’t they serial jerks? Shouldn’t that be enough for finally getting to spend some quality time in the Big House?
Maybe because each state wants to get their pound of flesh from each of these jerks?
So Trump can’t pardon them when he returns from Elba and reclaims the throne.
NY AG James Wants In On Lawsuit Against Wohl And Burkman Over Racist Robocall
Circle Jerks.
For Wohl and Burkman, “cancel culture” = Jail time. That’ll cancel their asses for awhile.
David M. Schwartz, an attorney for the defendants, told TPM that “This case is nothing more than a furtherance of the cancel culture movement and that only people holding a certain opinion have a right to be heard.”
“If you listen to the calls, there is nothing threatening about any of the calls,” Schwartz asserted. “We will fight this case in court and we look forward to a trial challenging all of these fictional claims.”
Yeah,…this sounds like a total trumpian “attorney” who wouldn’t be able to defend his way out a paper bag. Pro tip: any “attorney” that uses cancel culture as part of a defense, stiff them on their payment.
“This case is nothing more than a furtherance of the cancel culture movement and that only people holding a certain opinion have a right to be heard.”
I’m sure he’d make the same argument for Bernie Madoff or Charles Ponzi.
Looks like the payment is finally due on these cretins and their assholery. Book 'em.
Hell, even James O’Keefe would be embarrassed by their ineptitude. The unzipped fly press conference was one of the high points of the MAGA era.
Yes. And they will have to defend charges in multiple jurisdictions.
The uncool are always the first to latch on to a phrase, thinking that it erases years of bigotry and being surrounded only by people precisely like themselves.
It has always reminded me of people who equate “learning a language” with copping some curse words.