Jacob Wohl shows that maybe fabricating rape allegations isn’t so easy after all

Published April 30, 2019 6:32pm ET



I‘d call Jacob Wohl evil, but most evil requires at least a double-digit IQ.

For his latest stunt, the professional fraudster and his partner-in-attempted-crime Jack Burkman allegedly — I use this word lightly — attempted to recruit men to falsely accuse South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg of sexual assault. If the scheme sounds familiar, it’s because it followed the same plan Wohl and Burkman attempted to use against special counsel Robert Mueller. (The allegation was rapidly debunked, and Mueller referred Wohl and Burkman to the FBI as a result.)

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