Infamous MAGA team facing $11M lawsuit for causing 'irreparable harm'
In 2023, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman — an infamous team of far-right MAGA conspiracy theorists — faced legal consequences for racist robocalls aimed at Black voters during the 2020 election. Prosecutors described the robocalls as a blatant attempt at voter suppression, and after pleading guilty to a felony count telecommunications fraud, they were given two years of probation and fined $2500 each in November.
Now, according to the Daily Beast's Justin Rohrlich, Wohl and Burkman are facing an $11 million lawsuit from a Maryland-based attorney and U.S. Marines veteran who says they falsely accused him of sexual misconduct.
In an article published on February 6, Rohrlich reports that the attorney "claims his life fell apart after Wohl and Burkman falsely tarred him in a 2021 video as a child sex predator, according to an $11 million racketeering lawsuit obtained by The Daily Beast."
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"In the aftermath," Rohrlich explains, "the unidentified Maryland man was let go from his law firm, lost a paid internship at Johns Hopkins University, was thrown out by his landlord, and forced him into bankruptcy, the lawsuit states. 'John Doe' contends, in the suit, that Wohl and his co-defendant, soon-to-be-disbarred lawyer Jack Burkman, caused 'irreparable harm' by laying waste to his reputation, wrecking his ability to earn a living, and turning him into a 'critical casualty' of their 'ongoing, illegal scheme.'"
The hardships the attorney suffered, according to the lawsuit, stem from the online series "Predator D.C."
Wohl and Burkman, Rohrlich notes, have a long history of making false accusations.
"In the fetid swamp of far-right politics," Rohrlich reports, "two names are infamous for having unleashed a torrent of particularly ludicrous stunts, lies, and scams. Among other things, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have lobbed phony sexual misconduct claims at former FBI director and Trump-era special counsel Robert Mueller, recruited a young Trump supporter to smear then-presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg as a rapist, and floated a preposterous tale that Sen. Elizabeth Warren was carrying on a kinky, BDSM-imbued extramarital affair with a 24-year-old soldier later found to have exaggerated his service record."
Read the Daily Beast's full report at this link (subscription required).
