Two men pleaded no contest to a series of felonies for their roles in a robocall scheme to spread inaccurate information around Detroit leading up to the 2020 election, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel's Office announced Friday, Aug. 1.
According to Nessel's office, Jacob Wohl, 27, and John "Jack" Burkman, 59, engaged in a scheme that circulated robocalls to nearly 12,000 residents with Detroit phone numbers in late August 2020. The robocalls made false claims about voting by mail, which was promoted that year as a way to avoid contracting COVID-19 during the then-ongoing pandemic.
The robocalls falsely alleged that voting by mail would place voters' personal information into databases that law enforcement and credit card companies could use to track down individuals, Nessel's office stated. The robocalls also falsely claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would use vote-by-mail records to track individuals for mandatory vaccinations, Nessel's office said.
Burkman and Wohl, both of Virginia, pleaded no contest to intimidating voters, conspiracy to violate election law, using a computer to violate election law and using a computer in a criminal conspiracy, Nessel's office...
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