Right-wing operatives sentenced in racist robocall scheme targeting Detroit voters

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(Detroit Metro Times) Two right-wing political operatives who orchestrated a racist robocall campaign to suppress turnout among Black voters in Detroit dodged jail time Monday and were sentenced to one year of probation.

Jack Burkman, 59, and Jacob Wohl, 27, pleaded no contest to felony charges for creating and funding a series of robocalls in 2020 that pushed falsehoods about voting by mail.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Margaret VanHouten handed down the sentence under a Cobbs agreement between the defendants and the court.

A Cobbs agreement allows a judge to give defendants an advance estimate of their sentence in exchange for a plea. The Michigan Attorney General’s Office was not part of that agreement. ..................(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-detroit-news/right-wing-operatives-sentenced-in-racist-robocall-scheme-targeting-detroit-voters/

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1. If they were sentenced to jail time, trmp would have pardoned them....

this is where we are today.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl deserve to be in prison

Someone attempted a similar stunt in the Tennessee race

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