Two far-right activists agreed to pay up to $1.2 million to New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office for a robocall campaign in 2020 that sought to suppress the state’s black vote.
James said Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay the funds, which are drastically lower than a federal $5.1 million charge for making similar calls in other states.
“Wohl and Burkman orchestrated a depraved and disinformation-ridden campaign to intimidate Black voters in an attempt to sway the election in favor of their preferred candidate. Now they will pay up to $1.25 million,” James said in a statement announcing the agreement on Tuesday. She called the pair “conspiracy theorists” who “intimidated” black voters with “threatening” robocalls.
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