57 Facts About Jacob Wohl

Jacob Alexander Wohl was born on December 12,1997 and is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, fraudster, and convicted felon.

Jacob Wohl has created and promulgated other false or unfounded claims and conspiracy theories, mainly against Democratic Party politicians such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Ilhan Omar, and Elizabeth Warren.

Formerly highly active on Twitter, and known for his online trolling on social media, Jacob Wohl has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for creating fake accounts in violation of site policies.

Jacob Wohl pleaded not guilty to two charges of selling unregistered securities in February 2020.

Jacob Wohl founded investment funds Jacob Wohl Capital Investment Group, NeX Capital Management, and Montgomery Assets, Inc as a teenager.

Jacob Wohl appeared on Fox Business in 2015, when he was 17 years old, to discuss his hedge fund.

One model alleged that Jacob Wohl posted photographs of her online without her permission.

The investor said that Jacob Wohl had told him his $75,000 investment had grown, but had paid the investor only $44,000 when the investor demanded the money be returned.

Jacob Wohl claimed that the difference was due to losses, but the NFA found that Jacob Wohl's trading accounts "appeared to have made, not lost, money overall".

The NFA said Jacob Wohl made an unbalanced presentation of profit potential and risk of loss to clients, and had misled investors by claiming to have been trading for 10 years, which would have been since he was eight or nine years old.

Jacob Wohl hid from NFA investigators when they came to his house, and his father, an attorney, threatened to sue the NFA for harassment.

Jacob Wohl was ordered by the ACC to pay $32,919 in restitution and $5,000 in penalties.

In May 2020, the ACC announced that they were working with the Arizona Attorney General's office in collection efforts against Jacob Wohl, who had not made any payments towards the fines.

At least once, Jacob Wohl posed as investigator Matthew Cohen to a potential client who responded to the ad.

One paid him a $1,200 advance fee for help in recovering her stolen truck, but Jacob Wohl never performed any investigative services for the fee, nor did he return the money or contact her again.

Jacob Wohl claimed that Corrigan was being convinced by associates of President Donald Trump to go back on her claims against the USAID, and Burkman said that Corrigan had "buyer's remorse" for sending the tweets.

In February 2018, Jacob Wohl created a news blog called The Washington Reporter, which served as a home for his political podcast Offended America.

NBC News reported in November 2018 that Jacob Wohl had "adopted and amplified nearly every prominent conspiracy theory to arise in the last year," and had used his blog to publish unfounded claims about Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Robert Mueller.

Jacob Wohl was hired as a writer for the far-right website The Gateway Pundit in June 2018, before being fired later that year as a result of his failed plot against Mueller.

Jacob Wohl became increasingly politically active as Donald Trump launched his 2016 campaign for the presidency.

Jacob Wohl established a reputation for his vociferous support for Trump on Twitter, and his speed in replying to nearly all of Trump's tweets.

Jacob Wohl claimed that the agents had taken "all of Jack's files, computers and phones" from the home, which is the headquarters of Jacob Wohl and Burkman's organization, Project 1599.

The article was removed later that day, with owner Jim Hoft stating that the matter and "serious allegations against Jacob Wohl" would be investigated.

Also that day, Burkman and Jacob Wohl posted a tweet claiming that Parsons did not exist, denying involvement in the matter, and calling it "a hoax designed to distract the nation from [Burkman's] press conference" to be held the next day.

Jacob Wohl initially contacted Wohl, who was then posing as an investigator named Matthew Cohen on Craigslist, in hopes that he would help her recover some stolen money.

Jacob Wohl did no work to recover the money, and instead offered Cass a position at his "intelligence" firm.

Jacob Wohl 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.

The source said that he did not agree at the time to participate in the scheme, and that Jacob Wohl phoned him shortly thereafter to suggest he recommend his friends who would.

The phone number allegedly used by Jacob Wohl was discovered to have been listed on the website of "Potomac Intelligence Group", where the company described itself as a private intelligence firm and listed Matt Teller as an employee, along with a link to Teller's LinkedIn profile.

Minutes after Jacob Wohl was contacted by The Daily Beast, the website and the LinkedIn page were taken down, and the phone number was disconnected.

Jacob Wohl said they had created the Medium profile and a Twitter profile, claiming to be him without his permission.

Jacob Wohl denied involvement in creating the event page, and Eventbrite later took down the event page, citing their rules against "inauthentic content".

Jacob Wohl said that Wohl had told him that he was a director, and that they were filming a show for Spike TV.

Jacob Wohl claimed that Wohl had previously paid her to use the story of her assault to frame an Academy Award-winning actor, but the story gained no traction, and so he had her reuse it to attempt to frame Fauci.

Jacob Wohl later admitted that he had fabricated the conversations which he claimed to have overheard.

On January 22,2019, Jacob Wohl falsely claimed on Twitter that Democratic Senator and then-presidential candidate Kamala Harris was not an American citizen on account of her parents not being naturalized citizens at the time of her birth, and as such, was ineligible to be president.

In February 2019, Jacob Wohl traveled to Minnesota with far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer, claiming to investigate rumors that Ilhan Omar, US Representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district and a Somali-American, had married her brother to grant him US citizenship.

Jacob Wohl created an online fundraising campaign to try to raise $25,000 to fund the trip.

The security team did not appear in any of their livestreams, and Jacob Wohl declined livestream watchers' requests to film the armored cars and security team which he claimed to have hired.

Jacob Wohl appeared on the grounds of the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference with Jack Burkman, ostensibly to present evidence from their trip, but was ejected.

Mother Jones wrote that Jacob Wohl's claims are "far into tinfoil-hat territory".

However, the Twitter account shown sending threats via direct message in the video, supposedly a "diversity coordinator" in Minneapolis, was one of the fake Twitter accounts Jacob Wohl had been operating himself.

The Daily Dot noted that Jacob Wohl might have filmed himself committing the crime of filing a false police report.

On March 15,2019, a Minnesota man sued Jacob Wohl for stealing his Instagram photo and using it as the profile picture for the fake account.

The next day, Jacob Wohl tweeted "BREAKING: Racist picture of Democrat North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper emerges just days after he called on Ralph Northam to resign - Daily Mail", but did not include any link to Daily Mail articles.

In March 2020, Jacob Wohl published fake COVID-19 test results, claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden had COVID-19 and would die in 30 days.

Jacob Wohl has been described as an Internet troll for his activities on social media.

Jacob Wohl was active on Twitter, which he used to spread lies and misleading information about Democratic politicians and post in support of Trump.

Jacob Wohl stated that he sought to solicit "damaging information" against left-leaning nonprofits such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, Media Matters for America, and Right Wing Watch by providing insiders money or "moral reconciliation".

One account found to be operated by Jacob Wohl was that of the supposed Minneapolis "diversity coordinator" that Jacob Wohl had reported to police for making death threats against him.

When contacted by USA Today after the ban was placed, Jacob Wohl stated that he had created the accounts for his businesses and "future think tank", but maintained that he had "not created fake accounts or bot armies or anything like that".

Jacob Wohl said that the veracity of the information he disseminates is not important, and that the spread of the claims and the number of people believing them was what was what mattered.

Jacob Wohl defended his attempt to manipulate elections, stating, "It is not illegal, unethical, or untoward for Americans to steer an American election".

Jacob Wohl was banned from both Instagram and Facebook on August 31,2020.

Jacob Wohl was raised in Corona, California, where he attended Santiago High School.

Jacob Wohl's father, David Wohl, is a defense attorney and conservative commentator who has been a guest on Fox News programs and who has promoted conspiracy theories.

Jacob Wohl has co-hosted a podcast for Jewish Trump supporters with fellow far-right activist and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.