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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,319 posts)
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 03:55 PM Sep 2020

Sealed Docs: FBI Investigating Jacob Wohl Over Roger Stone Trial Leaks

Source: The Daily Beast

Sealed Docs: FBI Investigating Jacob Wohl Over Roger Stone Trial Leaks

The hapless operative and his sidekick are being probed for potential witness harassment, criminal contempt, and obstruction of justice, according to a sealed filing.

Will Sommer
Updated Sep. 26, 2020 3:35PM ET / Published Sep. 26, 2020 3:19PM ET

The FBI is investigating blundering conservative operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman for a series of possible crimes, according to a document filed by federal prosecutors. ... Ironically, the document revealing the investigation was filed just days after Wohl and Burkman staged a fake FBI raid on Burkman's home in a bid for media attention.

The FBI investigation centers on Wohl and Burkman's February release of confidential juror questionnaires from the trial of Trump associate Roger Stone. The FBI is investigating the pair for potential witness harassment, criminal contempt, and obstruction of justice, according to the filing. {snip} The Sept. 18 document, filed by prosecutors from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, asks for a court order mandating voice-over-IP company HD Carrier LLC not reveal the existence of a grand jury subpoena related to the FBI investigation.

{snip}

The filing was first noticed by Offshore Alert, a website covering offshore banking, after an editor there was able to quickly grab it from the website of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia before it was sealed. (1) The document is no longer publicly available in the federal PACER court system, and a search for its case number brings up a sealed docket. ... "I'm in and out of PACER all day and just happened to be in the right place at the right time," Offshore Alert editor David Marchant told The Daily Beast in an email. "I believe the document was available only for a matter of minutes."

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While the FBI investigation and grand jury subpoena could portend new legal trouble, they're not the only problems for the pair. Wohl has been charged with two felony counts in California over alleged violations of securities law, while Michigan's attorney general is investigating a racist voter-suppression robocall that claimed to be from Wohl and Burkman. The duo have denied being behind the robocall. (2)

(1) https://www.offshorealert.com/GetDocument.aspx?id63579

(2) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-accused-of-starting-a-voter-suppression-scheme

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/sealed-docs-reveal-fbi-investigation-into-jacob-wohl-jack-burkman-over-roger-stone-trial-leaks



Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Jacob Wohl And Jack Burkman Under FBI Investigation
September 26, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/09/jacob-wohl-and-jack-burkman-under-fbi-investigation/

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https://www.offshorealert.com/GetDocument.aspx?id63579

USA v. Jack Burkman et al: 'Roger Stone Leak' Investigation

Application for Non-Disclosure Order for Grand Jury Subpoena in USA v. HD Carrier, LLC regarding an investigation into John M. Burkman, Jr., a.k.a. Jack Burkman, and Jacob Wohl for suspected criminal contempt, obstruction of justice, and witness harassment involving "the unauthorized public dissemination of confidential juror questionnaires completed by jurors in the matter of U.S. v. Roger Stone", filed at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Will Sommer Retweeted

https://twitter.com/willsommer

How did it take so long?




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https://twitter.com/JacobWohlReport

Of all their blundering nonsense, Wohl/Burkman are in trouble over releasing juror questionnaires from the Roger Stone trial




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Lol Wohl's mirror selfie from 14 hours ago still has 0 likes


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Sealed Docs: FBI Investigating Jacob Wohl Over Roger Stone Trial Leaks (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 OP
Good! Totally deserving pandr32 Sep 2020 #1
Very reassuring to see the FBI still functioning bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #2
Young Jacob will be a jail bird yet. It'll be funny when no one goes his bail. marble falls Sep 2020 #3
His father will take care of that. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #5
Jeepers. He looks like HE needs a defense lawyer! marble falls Sep 2020 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author marble falls Sep 2020 #9
Nah, James O'keefe is still lose. 3Hotdogs Sep 2020 #8
Why aren't they already both in jail BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #4
The world's shittiest intelligence agency strikes again! Initech Sep 2020 #7
kick/r abqtommy Sep 2020 #10
Here's Wohl's sidekick Burkman with his pants unzipped at their fake press conference Mrs. Overall Sep 2020 #11
It amazes me that these two idiots are not in prison yet Sapient Donkey Sep 2020 #12

bucolic_frolic

(43,064 posts)
2. Very reassuring to see the FBI still functioning
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:03 PM
Sep 2020

without apparent partisanship. They're still going after both sides, or finding miscreants wherever they lay.

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #5)

3Hotdogs

(12,332 posts)
8. Nah, James O'keefe is still lose.
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:58 PM
Sep 2020

He should'a been in the slammer years ago for infiltrating a senator's campaign office.

BumRushDaShow

(128,527 posts)
4. Why aren't they already both in jail
Sat Sep 26, 2020, 04:38 PM
Sep 2020

for fraud and defamation. I suppose for the same reason James O'Keefe isn't already in jail.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
12. It amazes me that these two idiots are not in prison yet
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 12:41 AM
Sep 2020

As far as I can tell, they are not even liked by their own kind because they are so awful at what they do.

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