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God’s perfect fools, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, are back with another ridiculous scheme. This time the pair of convicted fraudsters are pushing an AI-powered lobbying company called LobbyMatic. Like all their plots, LobbyMatic is promising things it can’t deliver and Wohl and Burkman have already been caught in several lies.
AI is the biggest buzzword in tech right now and there are thousands of companies peddling all kinds of services. Enter LobbyMatic, a company launched in 2022 that promises to “massively increase [a lobbyist’s]efficiency and effectiveness by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.”
According to LobbyMatic’s website, it has services that automate the monitoring of a hearing, “book dozens of meetings on Capitol Hill in a few clicks,” and “utilize our cutting-edge AI models, married together with real-time legislative and regulatory data to get answers in seconds.”
Politico looked into the company, which is purported to be founded and run by “Jay Klein” and “Bill Sanders.” Klein is, in actuality, Wohl. Sanders is Burkman. Former employees were only too happy to tell journalists all about the new venture once they learned they were working for people who’d lied about their identity.
Wohl and Burkman weren’t exactly smart about the ruse. “After getting hired by ‘Jay Klein,’ the employee soon grew suspicious about Wohl and the company after witnessing an apparent hesitation to obtain business licenses and hearing Wohl referred to as Jacob. The person discreetly took a photo of Wohl, did a Google image search and learned that Klein was actually Wohl,” Politico said.
404 Media dug deeper and discovered that LobbyMatic is misrepresenting its client list. A product demo on LobbyMatic’s site implied it had done business with Capital One, Lockheed Martin, Meta, Fidelity, the lobbying firm Holland & Knight, Home Depot, Palantir, Microsoft, Pfizer, SalesForce, Visa, and Toyota.
Pfizer, Microsoft, Palantir, Home Depot, Lockheed Martin, and Holland & Knight all told 404 Media that they had no relationship with LobbyMatic. “Several of the companies that responded told me that they had never heard of LobbyMatic and had no idea why their companies were being shown in product demos,” 404 Media said.
The list of Burkman and Wohl’s schemes and frauds is too long to recount here. They’ve both been kicking around online in Washington for almost a decade. They’re responsible for several politically motivated stunts and financial crimes. It was Wohl who popularized the practice of conservative pundits lying about overhearing MAGA-friendly political positions in “hipster coffee shops.”
Wohl and Burkman spent the better part of Trump’s presidency inventing sexual misconduct allegations against Robert Mueller, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Anthony Fauci. The pattern was always the same. The pair would make the claim, sometimes a woman would step forward, there’d be a surreal press conference, and then the press would inevitably uncover that Wohl and Burkman had made it all up. In some cases, they’d even paid the victim to lie.
Wohl and Burkman have not responded to any journalist’s request for comments on the story. LobbyMatic’s website says it’s looking for employees.
