Current Events > LeBron James helped get 2 Republican scam artists arrested

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In an ESPN story about how athletes worked together in the bubble to bring awareness to social injustice, a story about the apparent voter suppression attempt was found.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30213500/what-work-political-change-looks-lebron-james-star-athletes

In May, Benson's office began hearing from people in Detroit who'd received a robocall from a woman who introduced herself as Tamika Taylor from Project 1599 and suggested that police will use information from mail-in voting to track down voters, credit card companies will then use their personal information to collect outstanding debts and the CDC will use it to administer mandatory vaccines.

"Don't be finessed into giving your private information to the man," the call stated. "Stay home safe and beware of vote by mail."

On Aug. 27, Benson tweeted that the robocall "was targeting Detroit voters using racially charged stereotypes and false information to deter voting by mail" and called it "an unconscionable, indefensible, blatant attempt to lie to citizens about their right to vote."
James retweeted Benson and a More Than a Vote post, which stated: "They'll use every trick in the book to try to stop us from voting but we won't fall for the okey-doke. If you're in Detroit, fight back and report mess like this to [email protected]."

Soon, Benson's office was flooded with calls and emails from people who had been targeted by the false robocall. Ultimately she ascertained that 85,000 calls had gone out around the country.
"People knew it was false. They knew they were being targeted. And we were able to quickly get the word out," she said. "So there was no conversation about, 'Is it really happening? Is it just hyperbole?' Because we've got the backing of our most influential athletes backing us up and telling people what to do if they got a phone call."
Michigan's attorney general launched a multistate investigation, which led to felony charges being filed against two Republican operatives, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, on election law and conspiracy crimes that could bring up to 24 years in prison if they are convicted.
On Tuesday, a grand jury in Cleveland indicted Burkman and Wohl on eight counts of telecommunications fraud and seven counts of bribery in connection with 8,000 calls placed to residents in Cleveland and East Cleveland.

This is really cool. These people knew they were being scammed and LeBron encouraged them to do something about it.


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Shablagoo posted...

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl

Throw them under the prison

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Ill throw a party if those two get real prison sentences, they fucking deserve it

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King_Hutton posted...

Ill throw a party if those two get real prison sentences, they fucking deserve it

Don't they have multiple charges in multiple states pending?

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I'm glad they caught these guys. I hope they have a long stay in prison.

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Don't they have multiple charges in multiple states pending?

I think so

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Hahaha I wondered why I havent heard anything about Jacob Wohl in a few months. Reading this made my morning.

Give them the maximum sentence.
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St0rmFury posted...

Give them the maximum sentence.

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TimmyTinsel posted...

Hahaha I wondered why I havent heard anything about Jacob Wohl in a few months. Reading this made my morning.

nice lol

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bump

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Hopefully they're convicted after Trump is out of office though, since he'll just pardon them.

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Shablagoo posted...

Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl

I mean it doesnt take LeBron James to dunk on these two fools, but its good that he did nonetheless

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just left a hipster coffee shop, etc

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