Two right-wing fraudsters charged in a robocall scheme aimed at suppressing turnout of Black voters in Detroit in 2020 pleaded no contest to felony charges Friday.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who have a history of spreading hoaxes and outlandish conspiracy theories, face up to seven years in prison when they are sentenced in Wayne County Circuit Court on Dec. 1. They pleaded no contest to bribing/intimidating voters, conspiracy to commit an election law violation, using a computer to commit the crime of election law, and using a computer to commit the crime of conspiracy.

The plea comes nearly five years after the con artists recorded and funded a robocall with falsehoods about voting by mail before the presidential election in 2020. The automated message was sent to nearly 12,000 pho

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