Infamous con artist Jacob Wohl is back in the headlines years after his career ending phone scam upended any chance at an ordinary life. This time according to reports, Wohl has been found to have been posing as a lobbying executive.
The Lowdown
Jay Klein and Bill Sanders seemed like two ordinary business-y people in Washington DC seeking to accomplish generally what would be considered ordinary these days: deploying artificial intelligence inside their projects but make it the lobbying kind.
READ: Bazaar Daily ‘s informative history on Jacob Wohl and his many scams.
As uncovered by the lobbying firms own employees, Jay Klein and Bill Sanders do not actually exist and are actually convicted felons Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman. The duo back in 2022 was the subject of a criminal case that accused them of deploying fake robocalls in Black neighborhoods in an effort to get Black voters to not vote. They were sentenced to 500 hours of registering voters; $5m in fines, and are basically the bottom of the barrel.
But it gets worse. According to Politico, they were only uncovered after a crafty employee got suspicious and took a photograph of Wohl on the sly. That photograph later turned up Jacob Wohl in Google searches which later resulted in mass resignations across the firm as a whole.
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