FBI raids home of conservative conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman (UPDATE... fake)
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Source: WaPo
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the home of lobbyist, conspiracy theorist and right-wing operative Jack Burkman early Monday morning.
Burkman confirmed the raid and said he was not arrested. His associate Jacob Wohl said the agents took computers, papers and cellphones from the home but that it was unclear what the federal investigators were seeking.
"It's quite strange," Wohl said. He said neither he nor Burkman, to his knowledge, have been questioned by the FBI.
A spokeswoman for the Washington Field Office of the FBI said, "We cannot confirm that at this time."
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/fbi-raids-home-of-conservative-conspiracy-theorist-jack-burkman/2020/09/14/cced27cc-f6a0-11ea-be57-d00bb9bc632d_story.html
UPDATE:
[div class"excerpt"]Jacob Wohl Staged Fake FBI Raid on Business Partner, Actor Hired for Production Says
A supposed FBI raid of a home of an infamous Republican dirty trickster appears to have been a ruse--one that began falling apart even as its perpetrators managed to dupe a major national newspaper.
On Monday, a Virginia man who responded to a Craisglist ad seeking actors to play FBI agents for a television pilot came forward to say that he'd been roped into the latest hoax orchestrated by bumbling right-wing smear merchants Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl.
Tommy Abraham told The Daily Beast in an interview on Monday that the Craigslist ad offered $400 cash payments to white male actors who agreed to don FBI badges and windbreakers and film a series of scenes at Burkman's home in Arlington, Virginia. In the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, Abraham said that he and a handful of others who responded to the ad converged on Burkman's home and were filmed acting out an FBI raid there. Abraham supplied documentary evidence to back up his assertions, including emails from an address bearing the name of a company Wohl once ran.
By Monday afternoon, news of the fake raid had already been reported as genuine by The Washington Post, and Burkman was insinuating that high-level government officials were retaliating against him for his efforts to root out corruption in Washington. A person going by he name Bev Donahue sent a series of photos and video clips of the "raid" to reporters, and shared them on an eponymous twitter account created in August. But there's evidence that "Donahue" is just a pseudonym for Wohl. That Twitter account is associated with an email address beginning with "ja" and a cell phone number that, like Wohl's, ends with the digits 91.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-staged-fake-fbi-raid-on-business-partner-actor-hired-for-production-says
stillcool
(32,626 posts)they may not have been questioned, but others have.
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)I want to stay optimistic about this.
pandr32
(11,581 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)I saw pictures of the bust earlier, but they were from a tweeter with a total of 7 tweets on its account, so I said, hmmm, this could be bogus, stay cool...
but ITS TRUE!! I am DELIGHTED, I tells ya!!! DELIGHTED!!
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getagrip_already
(14,741 posts)The fbi doesn't normally ask a target questions until they are ready to charge them. They start at the bottom and work their way to the top.
Well, that was before barr corrupted the place that is.
Brother Buzz
(36,419 posts)Judi Lynn
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ck4829
(35,069 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)demmiblue
(36,841 posts)neohippie
(1,142 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....as though it was real could violate federal law.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)Seriously, why aren't those two con artists in jail already?
George II
(67,782 posts)....as though it was real could be a serious matter. If not a crime, it might give the Washington Post grounds for a hefty lawsuit.
Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)catrose
(5,065 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)They probably belong in jail right along with him too.
Javaman
(62,521 posts)they are just minor players in something larger.
when the do get questioned, they will be squeezed and will cough up what they know about who pulls their strings
Warpy
(111,253 posts)I do hope this gets a lot of press and not for the reasons he wants it to.
There is plenty of FAKE NEWS out there, but it's not where Il Douche says it is.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 14, 2020, 07:50 PM - Edit history (2)
The Washington Post reported the hoax as fact.
WRITTEN BY ANDREW BEAUJON | PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
The FBIs Washington field office says it did not raid the home of Arlington conspiracy theorist Jack Burkman, despite a Washington Post story that apparently took Burkmans word that his home had been tossed by federal agents.
The FBI Washington Field Office was not present at the specified location for law enforcement activity, a spokesman tells Washingtonian. Earlier Monday, the FBI said it cannot confirm or provide additional information.
A Washington Post spokesperson tells Washingtonian:
The Post earlier today published an erroneous story about a purported FBI raid on the home of conservative operative Jack Burkman. The FBI has since said that the raid did not take place. Our story was published because we failed to obtain appropriate confirmation.
{snip}
Andrew Beaujon
SENIOR EDITOR
Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was previously with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington City Paper. His book A Bigger Field Awaits Us: The Scottish Soccer Team That Fought the Great War was published in 2018. He lives in Del Ray.
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)These two amatuer-hour assclowns need to disappear. Permanently.