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Fine, probation, and community service. Jacob Alexander Wohl (born December 12, 1997) is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, fraudster, and convicted felon. Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have been responsible for multiple unsuccessful plots to frame public figures for fictitious sexual assaults. The pair were allegedly behind plots in ...
Wohl, No. 20 Civ. 8668 (VM), 2021 BL 50070, 2021 Us Dist Lexis 27059, 2021 WL 480818 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 12, 2021), Court Opinion Pagination * BL Majority Opinion > UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK NATIONAL COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION, et al., Plaintiffs, - against - JACOB WOHL, et al., Defendants.
Dec 1, 2022 · Jacob Wohl, pictured here surrounded by police officers at a 2020 protest in Washington D.C., is one of two right-wing activists who were behind a 2020 robocall scheme that targeted minority voters.
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Court of Appeals of Washington Division 1. May 16, 1983. [663 P.2d 1369] David Wohl, Washington Appellate Defender Ass'n, Seattle, for appellant. Norman K ...
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- FINANCIAL SCHEMES AND BIKINI MODELS
- SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Jacob Wohl, a former hedge fund manager turned pro-Trump conspiracy peddler, was a small-time but persistent figure on the far-right for the past two years. Then came the revelation of his apparent involvement as a central character in a bizarre plot to smear special counsel Robert Mueller. Now the FBI has been asked to investigate the alleged scheme, and Wohl may achieve the notoriety he’s been chasing for years.
The details of that plot to discredit Mueller were revealed on Tuesday, when journalists reported receiving suspicious emails from a woman claiming she had been offered money to fabricate accusations of sexual misconduct against the special prosecutor investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. NBC News traced a document outlining the Mueller allegations to a company whose website and telephone were registered to Wohl and his family.
Wohl, a self-described “Trumpenomics expert,” was perhaps best known on the internet for his dispatches from “hipster coffee shops” where Democrats supposedly secretly disclosed their love for the president. But as a writer on conspiracy sites, with 178,000 Twitter followers along for the ride, Wohl also earned a place among President Donald Trump’s most ardent and trolly online defenders. He was the first to tease that allegations were coming against Mueller, tweeting early Tuesday: “Several media sources tell me that a scandalous story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow. Should be interesting. Stay tuned!"
Those allegations, called “very credible,” by Wohl, were dropped hours later in a dossier on Gateway Pundit, a far-right, often inaccurate website for which Wohl writes. That dossier seems to have been written by Surefire Intelligence — the company tagline for the self-described “private intel agency” appears on the header of each page, and at least one woman has come forward with an email signed by an agent of Surefire, asking her for allegations against Mueller in exchange for money.
Wohl denied any connection to Surefire Intelligence, telling NBC News: “I don't have any involvement in any investigations of any kind. I'm not quite that cool.” But Surefire Intelligence is linked to Wohl in numerous ways, including domain records and a company phone that redirects to a number registered to Wohl’s mother.
After news hit of Wohl’s apparent connection to Surefire, Gateway Pundit pulled the dossier and replaced the text with a statement that founder Jim Hoft would be investigating both the dossier and Wohl’s involvement.
Wohl, 20, has a history of schemes. He was once billed as a teenage financial guru, but his penchant for lying — about his success and credentials — cut his investment career short and attracted investigations by government and industry regulators.
Wohl got his first taste of fame at 17, in a local news profile of his hedge fund. Calling him the “Wohl of Wall Street,” the spot gave Wohl publicity for Wohl Capital, a fund that he claimed had grown to 20 investors — students, parents, grandparents and teachers — and offered returns of over 22 percent.
By 2016, Wohl had shut down the hedge fund, and instead of college, he was running two new projects from Los Angeles. One was Montgomery Assets, which Wohl claimed invested in equity, fixed income and commodity markets, and started with “seed money from a Chinese family office.” The other was NeX Capital Management, a commodity trading adviser.
Wohl ran his businesses in an unorthodox way, attracting clients in part with bikini models he had found on Craigslist and Backpage. An ex-employee described the practice to an investor news website and it was documented in real time with screenshots posted by Twitter users who made it a hobby to follow Wohl’s activities.
“We need models for promo modeling events including conferences, trade shows, seminars, etc.,” read one Orange County, California, Craigslist ad viewed by NBC News. “We also have other modeling opportunities including bikini modeling and fashion modeling if you fit the type for that sort of modeling.”
Wohl blamed the posts on “trolls of mine in 2016,” whom he “immediately reported” to the FBI, he told The Daily Beast.
Wohl’s history with financial regulators and unhappy clients might have hurt someone else’s career prospects. But in a post-fact era, Wohl’s support of Trump, coupled with his devotion to conspiracies and tireless self-promotion on social media, has fueled his rise in online far-right circles.
In February 2016, Wohl appeared on Dr. Drew’s HLN show as a Trump fan and critic of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. By September, he was shaking hands with then-candidate Trump.
When Trump was elected, Wohl directed all of his focus on politics. Trump, Wohl says, is “the greatest president of all time,” and his greatest accomplishment, according to Wohl, is “blowing up the cancer known as political correctness.”
Wohl is often one of the first and most flattering to reply to Trump’s tweets. In the summer of 2017, Trump retweeted Wohl twice.
In February, Wohl launched The Washington Reporter, a conservative news website and home for his new political podcast, which he called “Offended America.” Wohl copied word for word the code of ethics for his new site from the watchdog journalism outlet Propublica, and early stories on the site included “Hillary Clinton Is Still Paying Private Spies to Dig Up Dirt on Trump,” and “As Mueller’s Witch-Hunt Continues, Links to Soros Emerge.”
Domain records show the site used to belong to Malia Zimmerman, the Fox News reporter sued this year by the parents of Seth Rich, the Democratic aide whose murder was seized on by conspiracy theorists, including Wohl. (The case was dismissed.)
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Court of Appeals of Washington Division 1. May 2, 1983. Rehearing Denied June 8, 1983. Raymond Thoenig, David Wohl, Washington Appellate Defender (appointed) ...
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