Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, the bumbling duo facing legal trouble in multiple states for sending out robocalls that were allegedly intended to intimidate minority voters, informed a federal judge Friday that they have complied with his order to send out some remedial robocalls to correct the false information.
We may think they are bumbling buffoons, but they seem to have deep pockets. They have been doing these calls in multiple states, have been arrested multiple time and charged with multiple crimes all of which must be costing them thousands of dollars and here they are. They have private legal counsel, no problem posting bond and apparently had no problem with paying for the corrective calls.
So who is paying for all this? Maybe they should be charged too.
I think it was a good plan by the judge anyway. And they probably hated every second of having to do it- like a 7th grader having to write a full page apology letter to a teacher. It doesn’t mean they won’t try to pull that kind of crap again but they definitely had to squirm.
And I hope it cost them personally ($$) although dwward may be on to something in the earlier comment. Who is paying for their penance?
Any of the dark money PAC’s could be funding these guys. Really think that the judge should require them to reveal the source of funding since that makes the donor an accomplice in the crime. At least in my world.
a script to follow: “At the direction of a United States district court, this call is intended to inform you that a federal court has found that the message you previously received regarding mail-in voting from Project 1599 contained false information that has had the effect of intimidating voters, and thus interfering with the upcoming presidential election, in violation of federal voting-rights laws.”
Weak tea, and potentially counterproductive. Depending on the various states’ deadlines to receive the ballot, telling voters now that they should mail their ballots could result in their ballots being rejected. Also, make the wonderdummies place the calls in person, one at a time, 12 hours a day, from prison.
Conspiracy charge. Lock the clownpair up, then see if they want to flip on anyone. You have 1 year from date of sentencing to “remember” things that may interest the prosecution.
Kris Kobach-ordered to attend remedial lawyering classes for misrepresenting voting fraud and immigration issues.
Wohl and Burkman- ordered to make remedial robocalls for intimidating minority voters.
They as well as others have more than enough in common to fill some prison classrooms.
I don’t believe the case is over. This isn’t their sentence for violating the law - this is a judge trying to undo the damage before the case proceeds any further.