Jacob Wohl

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

Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman have been responsible for multiple unsuccessful plots to frame public figures for fictitious sexual assaults.

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

He posted Craigslist ads for "Wohl Girls," models who were hired to help attract clients, and a number of risqué websites including "WohlGirls.com" were registered to his name.

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

In 2016, the National Futures Association (NFA) investigated NeX Capital Management after receiving an investor complaint.

The investor said that 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.

The man later died by suicide.

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

Some of the money, the NFA alleged, had been diverted into Wohl's mother's brokerage accounts.

The NFA said 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.

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

The Riverside County District Attorney's Office alleged that Wohl and Johnson violated California law by selling unqualified securities through Montgomery Assets between July 27 and August 27, 2016.

In July 2016, an investigator from the district attorney's office contacted Wohl and Johnson, who at the time were running the Montgomery Assets firm, and claimed to represent a client who was interested in investing with them.

The National Futures Association banned Wohl for life in 2017, after investigating multiple investor complaints against him and concluding that Wohl was guilty of refusing to cooperate with the NFA as required, misrepresenting investments, and misleading investors.

The same year, the Arizona Corporation Commission charged Wohl with 14 counts of securities fraud and ordered him to pay approximately $35,000 in restitution and penalties.

In March 2017, the NFA banned Wohl for life.

In 2017, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) issued a cease-and-desist order to Wohl and his three investment funds after it found they were in violation of securities laws.

The ACC charged Wohl and his companies with 14 counts of securities fraud, including falsely representing investment risks, misrepresenting the amounts of assets managed, and falsely claiming in online advertisements on Craigslist that he, then 18, and his business partner, then 27, had more than 35 years of experience flipping homes.

Wohl at one point claimed that he was managing 178 client accounts and combined total assets under management (AUM) of as much as $10,000,000, although the ACC said that he only had thirteen clients and an AUM of around $500,000.

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

The pair were allegedly behind plots in October 2018 against U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in April 2019 against 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, and in April 2020 against White House Coronavirus Task Force member Anthony Fauci.

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.

To aid his schemes, Wohl has created multiple fake private intelligence agencies, and has fabricated death threats and protests against himself.

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

In 2018, Wohl created and registered the company Surefire Intelligence, LLC.

In August 2019, Wohl was arrested on felony charges for allegedly illicit securities sales that took place in July and August 2016.

A 2016 complaint by the same man resulted in the Riverside Superior Court in Riverside County, California issuing felony arrest warrants on August 9, 2019, for Wohl and his former business partner, Matthew Johnson, on charges of unlawful sale of securities.

According to the 2019 arrest warrant, the investigation resulted in an apparent attempt by Wohl and his partner to sell an unregistered security.

Wohl was taken into custody on August 19, 2019.

After a brief appearance in court, he was released until arraignment.

On February 24, Wohl pleaded not guilty to two felony charges of selling unregistered securities.

In August 2020, Wohl and Burkman made tens of thousands of robocalls to residents of battleground states, in a campaign that prosecutors have alleged intentionally targeted non-white communities to spread disinformation in an attempt to suppress voting in the 2020 presidential election.

As a result of the campaign, Wohl and Burkman each pleaded guilty to one felony charge of telecommunications fraud in Ohio, were found to have violated federal and state civil rights laws in a civil case in New York, and are facing a criminal suit in Michigan.

In June 2023, the Federal Communications Commission imposed a fine of more than $5million against both Wohl and Burkman over the robocall scheme.

Wohl founded several investment funds as a teenager.

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

Wohl founded investment funds Wohl Capital Investment Group (WCIG), NeX Capital Management, and Montgomery Assets, Inc. (MAI) as a teenager.

Initially, he took investments from classmates and his high school teachers.

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