Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman pleaded guilty in Cleveland Monday to a charge of telecommunications fraud.
by a disgruntled former associate—were accused of placing robocalls to more than 85,000 people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and New York. In Ohio alone, they reportedly placed 3,500 calls.
, the calls targeted minority voters and claimed that “police and debt-collection companies could use personal information that voters put on their mail-in ballots to track down people who have outstanding warrants and credit-card debt” and that the CDC would use voter information to force people to take vaccines.Burkman and Wohl were charged with 15 counts of bribery and telecommunications fraud.
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