A $1.25 million deal was reached by conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman to pay New York Attorney General Letitia James.
New York Attorney General Letitia James celebrated a $1.25 million win on Tuesday as conservative activists Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman reached a deal to pay James‘ office and others for running a voter suppression campaign during the 2020 election.
In March 2023, a federal judge ruled in James‘ favor in a lawsuit against Wohl and Burkman for their efforts to suppress Black voters ahead of the 2020 election. James had filed the lawsuit against Wohl and Burkman in May 2021 after an investigation by the Office of the Attorney General found that Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a broad voter suppression campaign that used robocalls to spread election-related misinformation to Black voters and others in an effort to discourage voting.
The federal judge had found the two men liable, saying in a ruling last year, that they „set into motion a full-scale voter suppression operation during the summer of 2020 to discourage eligible voters from voting by targeting mail-in voting in the 2020 Election.“
On Tuesday, a $1.
