1. Jack Burkman was involved in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2016 murder of Seth Rich, and in 2017 Jack Burkman was shot in the buttocks and thigh and hit with a car by a man he had hired to assist him in an independent attempt to solve Rich's murder.
Jack Burkman drew significant media attention in 2014 for organizing a protest against the Dallas Cowboys of the NFL after the team signed Michael Sam, an openly gay football player, to its practice squad.
Jack Burkman was the host of the Behind the Curtain podcast and radio talk show.
In September 2024, Jack Burkman claimed on X that he had taken on the role of acting campaign manager for Mark Robinson's gubernatorial campaign.
Also that day, Jack Burkman tweeted and Wohl retweeted that Parsons did not exist, denying involvement in the matter, and calling it "a hoax designed to distract the nation from [Jack Burkman's] press conference" to be held the next day.
Jack Burkman initially contacted Wohl, who was then posing as an investigator named Matthew Cohen on Craiglist, in hopes that he would help her recover some stolen money.
Jack Burkman then provided the recording to The Daily Beast, which wrote that it corroborated the man's claims with the aid of an audio forensics analyst who determined that one man in the recording was "highly likely" to be Wohl.
Jack Burkman said that he had to pretend that he was taking a nap in order to escape Burkman's residence, and that they had created the Medium profile and a Twitter profile claiming to be him without his permission.
On Friday, October 11,2019, Jack Burkman announced via Twitter that he and Wohl had scheduled a news conference for Monday, October 14.
The Daily Beast wrote that Jack Burkman unsuccessfully attempted to launder the photographs through several publications before releasing them himself.
In June 2016, Jack Burkman held an event called "Lobbyists for Trump" and invited all major lobbyists of Washington, DC, to help raise money for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
The organization drew media attention in 2014 when Jack Burkman announced plans to protest the Dallas Cowboys' signing of Michael Sam, the first publicly gay player to be drafted in the NFL.
Jack Burkman called for legislation that would prohibit homosexuals from playing in the NFL, though this proposed legislation was never formally introduced in the House of Representatives and never received a vote.
Jack Burkman started investigating the murder of Seth Rich in September 2016 after the Rich family accepted his pro bono public relations services.
The Rich family and Jack Burkman held a joint press conference about the murder in November 2016.
In January 2017, Jack Burkman launched an advertising campaign in Northwest DC searching for information regarding Rich's death.
In March 2017, Jack Burkman started "The Profiling Project", an independent investigative attempt to solve the murder of Seth Rich with help from forensics students at George Washington University.
Jack Burkman hired Kevin Doherty, a former US Marine and special agent, to help with the project, although tensions developed when Burkman felt Doherty was speaking to reporters when he shouldn't have been and trying to take control of the project.
In July 2017, Jack Burkman fired Doherty and sent him a cease and desist letter.
When Jack Burkman arrived, Doherty shot him in the buttocks and thigh and hit him with an SUV, breaking Jack Burkman's arm.