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MAGA Bullsh*tters Jacob Wohl And Jack Burkman Slapped With Very Real $5M FCC Fine

To go along with those felony indictments in Michigan and Ohio.

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Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have done some stupid shit in their time. From attempting to frame Special Counsel Robert Mueller for sexual misconduct, to attempting to frame Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for sexual misconduct, even going so far as attempting to frame Dr. Anthony Fauci for — you guessed it — sexual misconduct, these two doofuses have cranked out some doozies.

Will anyone ever top the “former Marine” turned rentboy alleging that he’d been in a sexually submissive relationship with the much older Senator Elizabeth Warren? Probably not. But the blast radius from Wohl and Burkman’s robocall antics during the 2020 election will do a lot more damage than the “lime green strap on dildo” Burkman and Wohl were ranting about.

Dumb and Dumber commissioned approximately 85,000 robocalls last summer targeting minority neighborhoods in swing states using this script:

Hi. This is Tamika Taylor from Project 1599, the civil rights organization founded by Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl. Mail-in voting sounds great. But did you know that if you vote by mail your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used for credit card companies to collect outstanding debts? The CDC is even pushing to use record from mail-in voting to track people for mandatory vaccines. Don’t be finessed into giving your private information to “the man.” Stay safe, and beware of vote by mail.

They’re already facing criminal charges in Michigan and Ohio, in addition to a civil suit by New York Attorney General Letitia James. And now the Derp Squad is looking at a fine from the Federal Communications Commission for making calls to mobile phone numbers without the owners’ consent. A big fine.

“The Federal Communications Commission today proposed a $5,134,500 fine against John M. Burkman, Jacob Alexander Wohl, and J.M. Burkman & Associates LLC for apparently making 1,141 unlawful robocalls to wireless phones without prior express consent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act,” the agency wrote in a press release last night.

The FEC also pointed out that this was the first penalty assessed under a 2019 amendment to the TCPA which removed the agency’s obligation to issue a citation to non-FCC-regulated parties before coming down on them like a ton of bricks. Sucks to be a couple of dumbasses making their first foray into major communications violations, huh?

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Whether these nitwits have $500, much less $5 million, is unclear. But with the 2022 midterms quickly approaching, the FCC is sending a strong signal to any would-be ratfuckers that using robocalls to suppress the vote will be a very expensive error.

Git ’em, boys.

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Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

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