According to a document filed by the federal prosecutor, the FBI is investigating the operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Berkman, who were involved in a series of possible crimes.
Ironically, the document revealing the investigation was filed a few days after the fake FBI raid on Berkman’s home in a bid to get media attention by Wohl and Berkman.
The FBI’s investigation centers on the release of Trump’s aide Roger Stone’s Wohl and Berkman’s secret juror questionnaires in February. According to the filing, the FBI is investigating the pair for possible witness harassment, criminal contempt and obstruction of justice.
The case could signal further legal trouble for the pair, who have become notorious in the political world for their quickly failed plans to provoke Trump opponents with allegations of bogus sexual assault.
In an email to the Daily Beast, Berkman said he was not aware of any FBI investigations. Wohl told the Daily Beast via text message that he did not even know about the case.
“I have heard that they are investigating us for Kennedy’s assassination.
Stone’s legal team did not respond to a request for comment.
The Sept. 18 document, filed by Eastern District Pennsylvania attorneys, seeks a court order not to disclose the existence of a grand jury subpoena related to the FBI investigation, and to voice-over-IP company HD Carrier LLC.
The first Fashore warning of the filing was first reported by a website covering Fashore Banking, after an editor there was able to snatch it from the United States District Court website for the District of Columbia before sealing it. This document is no longer publicly available in the federal PACER court system and the search for its case number brings a sealed docket.
“I’ve been in and out of the pacer all day and in the right place at the right time,” David Merchant, editor of the Fisher Alert, told the Daily Beast in an email. “I believe the document was only available for a few minutes.”
In late February, Wohl and Berkman held an immediate press conference outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, claiming that Stone was biased against the jury that convicted him seven counts three months earlier. As their supposed evidence, Wohl and Berkman published a secret juror questionnaire, largely focused on the juror’s media diet.
“On February 27, 2020, Berkman and his colleague, Jacob Wahl, held a press conference during which they distributed copies of the Jurr questionnaires,” the filing reads. “During that press conference, Berkman and Whale did not complete the procedure of obtaining court documents except to say that Roger Stone or Stone’s legal team did not provide them.”
The court also noted in a filed note that Berkman published some secret questionnaires on Twitter.
“On February 20, 2020, or, John M. Berkman, Jr. (a / k / a Jack Berkman) A sample of the Jurror questionnaire filled out by the jurors in the case of US vs via his Twitter account (@jack_burkman). Roger Stone, ”reads the filing. “On or after February 20, 2020, a series of tweets were sent from @Jack_Burkman’s Twitter account, including additional secret July questionnaires and offensive features about the jurors themselves. Berkman also claimed to have a text of Steve Benn’s jury testimony. “
Those actions could qualify as potential offenses, according to prosecutors.
“Based on the above facts, the FBI assesses Berkman and Wohl that they are engaged in attempts to influence or injure judges, as well as to tamper with potential witnesses before the court.” “As part of his ongoing investigation, [the] The FBI is seeking to determine who Vohl was in contact with at the time of the jury’s selection to determine the probable vector that Vohl and / or Berkman received the juror questionnaire. “
Prior to the publication of the questionnaires, Berkman was concerned with a series of phone numbers, according to HD Carrier Subpoi’s filing. HD Carrier provides phone numbers for teleconferencing companies and other businesses that use temporary phone numbers, indicating that the phone numbers were used shortly after by someone who was in contact with Berkman. The court noted that Berkman contacted the phone numbers at the time the questionnaire was released, according to a law enforcement review of his call records.
The public prosecutor’s representation seeks a court order in which he remains confidential while on duty, as the investigation takes at least a year.
Given the complex nature of the criminal activity under investigation and the involvement of co-conspirators and evidence and the ongoing criminal scheme, the government expects the undercover investigation to continue next year or longer, the filing said. .
The filing also noted that the initial disclosure of the investigation could help the investigation targets “involve flight, destruction or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, or other serious hazards of this investigation.”
“The disclosure may reveal the existence, scope and direction of the government’s ongoing and confidential investigation,” the filing reads. “Once alerted to this investigation, potential targets (s) will be promptly asked to destroy or conceal evidence of malpractice, change their operational tactics to avoid future investigations, and otherwise take steps to weaken investigations and avoid future action.” . In particular, since they are known to use electronic communication and remote computing services, potential targets (s) can quickly and easily destroy or encrypt digital evidence relating to their criminal activity. “
The grand jury investigating the case and Washington Washington D.C. According to the filing, the request for a court order was filed in the U.S. District of East Pennsylvania. Attorney, as well as two assistant U.S. Attorney, sign. In that office fee.
It is not clear why a lawyer in Pennsylvania and Washington are prosecuting in Washington, and McSwen’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
But McSwain notes that he is a U.S. citizen. The code operates under § 515, a legal provision for “special attorneys,” which is subject to U.S. law. Allows plaintiffs appointed by the Attorney General or an official of the Department of Justice to run outside their general jurisdiction. Both aides in the Wohl-Berkman filing are U.S. The attorneys signed the document as “Special Attorney to the U.S. Attorney General.”
In 2019, Maxwell made headlines accusing Democratic billionaire George Soros of seeking to “implement his radical agenda.”
While the FBI investigation and grand jury may create a new legal hurdle for the subpoy, it’s not just the odds for the pair. Wohl has been charged with two counts of alleged breach of securities law in California, while Michigan’s attorney general is investigating a racist voter-suppression robot, who claimed to be of Wohl and Berkman. Both have denied being behind RoboCall.
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