Jacob Wohl & Jack Burkman’s Latest Dingbattery Results in $11MM Lawsuit
OK, we’re going to have to be VERY CAREFUL with this posting, because lawsuits and arrogant stupidity are a volatile mix at the best of times, and these are clearly not said best of times.
However, for those longtime readers of this site, the duo of Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have been responsible for some truly off-the-wall behavior over the last decade or so, and have been called out, fined, punished, warned, charged with crimes, fined, and banned from pretty much any half-decent organization.
Their latest brainstorm apparently focused on their impression that Washington D.C. was just awash in child-molesting sex predators, so … Wohl & Burkman to the rescue!
Their plan of action was something that even the reckless fruitcakes over at Project Veritas would have rolled their eyes at: setting up sock-puppet accounts on dating sites and enticing men to connect … and then leaping out, screaming, guns pointed, to make a “Citizen’s Arrest.”
The “production” was riddled with problems from the get-go and that resulted in a Daily Dot article that quite accurately, predicted that they would be “sued into oblivion.”
In interviews and on social media, they describe being stranded in a Maryland Airbnb under hellish working conditions, subjected to sexual assault by the show’s targets or physical assault by Wohl himself. When they complained, they allege Wohl and Burkman denied them thousands of dollars in promised payments and harassed them.
Wohl and Burkman were obsessed with nailing a Democrat - apparently targeting Joe Biden (!!!!) - as a child-molesting sexual deviant.
As Predator DC filming stretched on, that began to change. According to Sirus and Spealman, Predator DC’s sting operations were motivated as much by Wohl and Burkman’s conservative political activism as the hunt for criminals. “Their whole thing was that they wanted to get a big fish. They wanted a congressman. They wanted Biden,” says Spealman. “That was very unrealistic — you can’t just turn people into pedophiles.”
Wohl’s solution was apparently to hide the age of the show’s fictitious teenagers as long as possible — in some cases, until they were on their way to the house. “What you’re doing borders on entrapment,” Spealman says she complained to Wohl at one point.
Here’s a link to the lawsuit that predictably resulted
The plan ensnared a former soldier, quite likely African-American, who allegedly thought he was talking to a 36-year-old woman named Sarah. He set up a date to meet Sarah. The lawsuit claims that “Doe” (they’re not using his real name because Google Search results for this guy are already pretty rife with the results of this sting operation), did not send dick pics or engage in the type of sexual banter that is all too prevalent on dating platforms.
When Doe showed up at Sarah’s tidy, two-story home on Aug. 29, 2021, he was greeted at the door by a woman he “believed was the woman he was expecting to meet (i.e., Sarah, age 36),” the lawsuit continues. The woman, whose real name is Anastasia, according to the lawsuit, invited Doe inside, which is when he immediately “realized that there were hidden cameras in the apartment,” it says, noting that as Sarah went upstairs, Wohl, Berkman, and some five other men surrounded him: one wore a tactical vest, another ballistic gloves, a third, armed with a handgun, blocked the front door.
They folded like a cheap suit when “Doe” said he was going to call the cops on them because what they were doing was illegal. Despite that, despite promises that they wouldn’t use the footage, yep, you guessed it:
On May 23, 2022, Doe’s landlord told him he had to “immediately leave the apartment unit he had moved into just the day before,” according to the suit. “[Doe] later learned that this was due to the landlord seeing the video after the posting had become the third result on Google when [Doe’s] name was searched.”
Three weeks later, Doe was notified he was being dismissed from his job at a New York immigration law firm “due to an online post, now second in Google results when searching his name,” the lawsuit states. “They said they found the site from [Doe’s] prior landlord. It was not safe to return [to work] due to threats relating to the post.”