Jacob Wohl isn’t someone that I’d heard of before having been kicked off the Twitter (now X) during the great purges of right-wing dissidents in 2017. However in the last year or so after authentic right-wing voices have largely been booted from the platform and have migrated to Andrew Torba’s Gab. He has amassed something of a following so much so that JTA has published a piece on him that was syndicated to the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel among others. (1) In essence Wohl saw the gap in the market left by the jewish-inspired purges and as a jew – and therefore largely immune to Twitter’s censorship – and sought to build himself into a safe ‘right-wing’ pundit.
His choice of rhetoric is the sort of baby boomer ‘conservatism’ boiler plate that would be regarded as symptomatic of mental retardation if it wasn’t quite so widespread. To him Puerto Rico is a mess not because of… well… the fact that it is inhabited by Puerto Ricans, but rather because of the nebulous claim that it has a ‘socialist government’. (2)
To him the United Kingdom’s constitutional monarchy is ‘anti-democratic’, (3) but yet he doesn’t know enough to notice the contradiction in terms between democracy as a concept and the practice of representative party democracy.
Wohl’s modus operandi was to be hyper-active on Twitter and to reply to then US President Donald Trump’s tweets multiple times as quickly as possible with supportive comments in the hopes of being re-tweeted and/or being noticed and gaining followers. (4) He succeeded in getting Trump to re-tweet him twice, which has certainly upped his profile and social media follower count. (5) However this is where it gets interesting, because while Wohl has started a podcast with mentally-ill sexual stalker Laura Loomer called ‘2 Live Jew’, (6) writes occasional pieces for Gateway Pundit (7) and even set up his own ‘conservative’ news site called ‘Offended America’ (8) – which has since been rebranded as the more respectable sounding ‘Washington Reporter’ – (9) that is simply a repurposed Tumblr reblog feed within a WordPress skin.
The problem is that Wohl isn’t actually a Trump supporter per se let alone being a supporter of America First.
Sure, he writes glowing paeons of praise for Trump, but this is really a marketing strategy to get followers as well as Trump’s attention.
As Tom Stankewicz has noted:
‘At some point during Trump’s rise, Wohl seems to have realized that his “contrarian financial and political opinions” would make for a decent alternative news spin, and he may even be able to advertise his brand and websites by using Trump.’ (10)
Wohl is a jewish businessman out for himself and his tribe not for America. He wants to gain a popular following both to soothe his massive ego – more on that later – but also to promote the interests of his people – the jews – at the expense of those of the American people.
A good example is his banal attempts to claim that the Palestinians are just like ISIS (11) and demanding that Israel be allowed to treat the Palestinians as sub-humans, while having the United States completely defund the Palestinian authority and ‘treat it like a terrorist organization’. (12)
He also wants to see the United States and its allies sacrifice thousands of lives and trillions of dollars in an invasion of Iran on behalf of Israel.
To quote Nat Berman:
‘Wohl is one of a number of public figures in the United States who have been expressing very optimistic views about what will happen should the United States choose to bomb Iran. To be exact, Wohl has claimed that he has received numerous messages from Iranians saying that they would welcome the United States bombing their country, which perhaps unsurprisingly, he has produced no evidence for.’ (13)
This exaggeration and habitual lying – it can be little else as I rather doubt Wohl even knows one Iranian currently living in Iran – is also evident from Wohl’s extremely shady past beyond his attempts to claim Israeli foreign policy objectives are ‘in the interests of the American people’. (14)
You see:
‘He began his first hedge fund, Wohl Capital Investment Group, with money from high school classmates and their parents. In a Bloomberg profile, he claimed the principal of his high school invested with him. Subsequently he started another investment fund, Montgomery Assets.’ (15)
The problem with that though is:
‘What Wohl doesn’t mention is that the hedge funds he says he founded as a teenager have faced national and state investigations, due in part to customers who claimed Wohl scammed them.
[…]
Wohl’s public posturing began years earlier. In 2016, at 18, he was calling himself “Wohl of Wall Street” when, like his namesake, he ran into some regulatory trouble.
Wohl was investigated by the National Futures Association, a government-authorized financial regulator that looks for fraud and responds to investor complaints. NFA started looking into Wohl after they reviewed promotional material for his fledgling hedge fund, NeX Capital Management. A series of NeX videos were “unbalanced in their presentation of profit potential and risk of loss” for investors, the NFA claimed in a 2016 filing before its internal Business Conduct Committee, which rules on disciplinary issues (PDF). The NFA added that Wohl claimed to have acted as a fund manager before he or NeX were registered to do so.
The NFA also cited a complaint from an investor, who claimed he wired Wohl $75,000, which Wohl claimed had grown to $89,500 in just months. But when the investor tried to withdraw his money, Wohl allegedly sent back a meager $44,000, blaming the difference on losses. “Wohl Capital’s trading account appeared to have made, not lost, money overall,” the NFA wrote.
Other NeX claims might have tipped off the regulators.
Wohl’s father allegedly followed up with an email accusing the NFA of “stalking and harassing Jacob and our family repeatedly, at our homes” and “demanding a meeting that is not going to take place under any circumstances.” Wohl’s father also told the agency he had “initiated a formal complaint with LAPD, and they are now investigating this matter,” and that he would “also seek a permanent restraining order in court, the violation of which will result in criminal penalties.”
Wohl’s father accused the NFA of “regulatory thuggery,” in an interview with Yahoo News, adding that he didn’t want Wohl “to be bullied and harassed.” In early 2017, the NFA gave Wohl a lifetime ban from registering with them.
The Arizona Corporation Commission also slapped Wohl and his businesses with a cease and desist order in late 2016, accusing them of violating the Securities Act, by selling unregistered securities. Wohl’s former clients in the state claimed they had invested with him after he represented his company as managing 178 accounts with up to $10 million in assets. The ACC said Wohl had no more than 13 accounts with a combined $500,000 in assets. When those clients became suspicious and asked for a refund, they only received about half their money back, according to the ACC complaint.
The ACC also pointed to another Wohl-run firm called Montgomery Assets. Montgomery’s Craigslist ads described it as a real estate investing firm whose proprietors had 35 years of flipping homes, when the company’s two principal employees (18-year-old Wohl and his 27-year-old colleague) had only been alive a combined 45 years. A Montgomery client told the ACC that once she started doing business with the company, Wohl sent her a letter warning of an upcoming “volatility event” in the market, and urging her to sell all her other investments and pour her money into Montgomery’s special promissory notes.
Wohl agreed to a consent decree in the case, which included more than $32,000 in fines and restitution.’ (16)
Berman also points out that:
‘Montgomery Assets isn’t Wohl’s first effort in the world of investing. He and his previous business called Wohl Capital Investment Group actually got banned by a self-regulatory organization called the National Futures Association, which was looking into it because of complaints launched by a client named David Diedrich. Wohl brazenly refused to cooperate with its examiners, stating that because he had cancelled his membership, they no longer had the right to look into his activities.’ (17)
Stankewicz adds that:
‘Wohl “gained notoriety” when he founded Wohl Capital Investment Group (WCIG) as a 17-year-old. His other two companies were Nex Capital Management and Montgomery Assets, Inc., although he now operates under Montgomery Assets after the National Futures Association banned Wohl and Nex Capital for life.
Earlier this year, the Arizona Securities Commission accused Wohl’s companies of violating the state’s securities laws. According to Benzinga, Wohl was accused of 14 counts of fraud in connection with the offer or sale of securities, including:
Wohl and WCIG falsely represented to Investor 1 that only 20 percent of his investment would be at risk, yet lost approximately 50 percent of his Investor 1’s account value between December 2015 and January 2016, according to the securities commission.
Wohl and WCIG falsely represented to Investor 1 that WCIG managed between $9 million and $10 million in assets, but actually managed less than $500,000, the order said.
Wohl and WCIG misled Investor 1 regarding the risk associated with the investment by representing that a textbook trade for WCIG had a 99.5 percent probability of profit, according to the commission.
Wohl, Johnson, and MAl falsely represented to potential investors that MAl had 35 years of experience flipping single-family residential real estate, but MAl had existed for less than six months, the order said.’ (18)
It is ironic indeed that Wohl has been keen on stressing his credibility on things like his supposed Iranian contacts, but yet has a record like the above. It is also worth noting that for someone who wants to praise Trump as the ‘best friend the Jewish people have ever had in the Whitehouse’. (19) He still seems remarkably unhappy with Trump not doing what the jews want him to in the form of invading Iran so Israel didn’t have to.
The amount of irony increases when we note that unlike Trump – who has had numerous affairs and no trouble with women whatsoever – (20) Wohl has had little success with women and for similar reasons as his demonstrably poor business acumen in relation to his hedge funds.
Describing this Ben Sales writes about Wohl’s ‘modelling agency’:
‘But the young investor, who has been called “The Wohl of Wall Street,” soon ran into trouble and has been investigated by multiple regulatory organizations. He also posted personal ads on Craigslist seeking attractive women while claiming to run a modeling agency, according to the Daily Beast. One woman accused him of posting her photo online, in a bra, as the “Wohl Girl of the Month” without her permission. The domain WohlGirls.com expired last month.’ (21)
Not exactly a good luck for our wannabe circumcised Donald Trump, but it gets worse.
Kelly Weill explains this when she writes that:
‘A series of Craigslist ads solicited models to flatter his potential clients and a set of salacious websites registered to his name promoted models called “Wohl Girls,” one of whom alleged that Wohl posted her pictures without her permission.
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Wohl also drew media attention for claiming to travel with “Instagram models” and for hiring a “Director of Fun” (a beautiful woman who featured in a now-deleted NeX video) to interact with clients, ValueWalk previously reported.
Wohl told The Daily Beast his companies had hired models for events, but said the models served no other purpose.
“Yes, we hired promotional models for conferences because that’s a very common and accepted practice in business across many industries,” he said. “That’s it. Every other kooky claim is spurious garbage.”
Montgomery Assets also appeared to advertise for bikini models on Craigslist, according to ads flagged by Twitter users.
“We need models for promo modeling events including conferences, trade shows, seminars, etc.,” read one ad on an Orange County, California, Craigslist page. “We also have other modeling opportunities including bikini modeling and fashion modeling if you fit the type for that sort of modeling.”
The website registry database DomainTools shows a number of websites registered to Wohl’s name. Some are definitely Wohl’s, including the domain for his short-lived media outlet Offended America, and domains that are described in the ACC filing as belonging to his businesses. Others, with names like “WohlGirls.com” and “MelanieRiosManagement.com” (the name of a porn actress), appeared to solicit more salacious business.
Wohl distanced himself from an unspecified set of websites and posts.
“Fake websites and craigslist ads were posted by trolls of mine in 2016 and and I immediately reported them to the FBI,” Wohl told The Daily Beast.
He declined to specify which websites and ads were the alleged frauds, and declined to answer further questions.
But one of the more salacious websites registered under his name appears to have been operational, and hosted intimate pictures of at least one woman. In summer 2016, WohlGirls.com uploaded pictures of its “Wohl Girl of the Month.” The post, which showed the young woman in a bra, included her social media handle and described her as “one of the newest additions to the agency.”
The woman’s mother, who spoke to The Daily Beast under the condition of anonymity, said the woman had not consented to have her pictures featured that way.
“She’s an attractive young woman,” the woman’s mother said. “He reached out to her and said, ‘I can make you Insta-famous and get you into modeling, and thereby gain you companies that would want you to rep their products on Instagram.’”
Wohl allegedly offered to set up a professional modeling page, and the young woman, who was interested in modeling, agreed.
But instead “he took some of her photos, either from Snapchat or Instagram that she had posted and created a page for her called the ‘Wohl Girl’ of the month,” she said. “From there, he put up photos and made the page seem inappropriate and dangerous.”
The young woman’s mother said she called Wohl. “I had no info on him,” she said. “I thought he was probably an older man trying to exploit a young woman. When I contacted him on the phone, I could tell he was young and idiotic. I told him, you take that site down, you take any reference to her out of your world or else. He got very scared and was like, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry,’ and apologized profusely and took it down.”
Once again, Wohl allegedly presented himself as a more experienced businessman.
“He represented himself to my daughter to be somebody who was in investment management, was a very successful businessman, ran a modeling agency, had many contacts that could help her gain product endorsement gigs, and completely and utterly misrepresented himself.”’ (22)
So in summary Wohl set up a modelling agency called ‘Melanie Rios Management’ and tried to push his eponymously named ‘Wohl Girls’ recruited via Craigslist – of all places – by republishing photos without their permission, while mispresenting himself to them and claiming to be things that he was most certainly not. Wohl was then threatened with legal action by the mother of one of his victims and despite having free legal counsel – i.e. his father – he ran away like a little girl and tried to memory hole his foray into the world of modelling.
The hilarious thing is that Wohl is still lying about this even now as he – as we have seen - claims that these were ‘fake’ and set up by trolls, which is a lame excuse if ever there was one. (23) It is also almost identical to his excuse as to why his ‘Offended America’ plagiarised its Code of Ethics in full from ProPublica. (24)
In typical jewish fashion Wohl claimed it was some unspecified person’s fault other than him, (25) because as we all know. No jew has ever done anything wrong and even if they had then they certainly wouldn’t admit to it.
Yet his self-delusion is utterly rampant as seen by his response to Weill’s questions on the subject of ‘Wohl Girls’ and her pithy commentary on it:
‘“Gossip about whether or not I date Instagram models is none of your concern,” he said.
No one had accused him of dating Instagram models.’ (26)
Wohl thinks he ‘dates Instagram models’ – he clearly doesn’t beyond possibly masturbating to their photos while fantasizing about Donald Trump cuckolding Mitt Romney – but yet cannot even get girls to talk to him without setting up a spurious ‘modelling agency’.
No wonder Wohl doesn’t like talking to journalists, because they tend to ask him awkward questions about his deceptions, lies and plagiarism. (27)
Similarly Wohl has recently been accused of tricking a woman – through another corporate entity of his named ‘Surefire Intelligence’ – into paying him more than $1,000 to find her stolen truck. Wohl initially denied having anything to do with ‘Surefire Intelligence’ until it turned out that the photo of the ‘Managing Partner’ - one ‘Matthew Cohen’ - was actually a photo of Wohl and the email address linked to ‘Surefire Intelligence’s’ domain name was his. (28)
The question is: can you trust Jacob Wohl?
The answer is a resounding: no.
References
(1) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/; https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Jacob-Wohl-The-20-year-old-face-of-Jewish-Trump-supporters-564319
(2) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(3) Ibid.
(4) https://sludgefeed.com/disgraced-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-started-alt-news-site/ ; https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-teen-hedge-funder-turned-pro-trump-media-star-was-accused-of-cheating-clients
(5) https://sludgefeed.com/disgraced-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-started-alt-news-site/
(6) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(7) Ibid.
(8) https://sludgefeed.com/disgraced-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-started-alt-news-site/
(9) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/ ; https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-teen-hedge-funder-turned-pro-trump-media-star-was-accused-of-cheating-clients
(10) https://sludgefeed.com/disgraced-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-started-alt-news-site/
(11) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(12)Ibid.
(13) https://moneyinc.com/jacob-wohl/
(14) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(15) Ibid.
(16) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-teen-hedge-funder-turned-pro-trump-media-star-was-accused-of-cheating-clients
(17) https://moneyinc.com/jacob-wohl/
(18) https://sludgefeed.com/disgraced-teen-hedge-fund-manager-jacob-wohl-started-alt-news-site/
(19) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(20) https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/27/attorney-hush-money-paid-3-more-women-claiming-affairs-trump/849051002/ ; https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/tape-of-trump-discussing-hush-money-for-alleged-affair-with-playboy-model
(21) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(22) https://www.thedailybeast.com/jacob-wohl-teen-hedge-funder-turned-pro-trump-media-star-was-accused-of-cheating-clients
(23) Ibid.
(24) Ibid.
(25) Ibid.
(26) Ibid.
(27) https://www.timesofisrael.com/at-20-jacob-wohl-wants-to-be-the-voice-of-young-jewish-trump-supporters/
(28) https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/jacob-wohl-accused-of-fooling-desperate-woman-into-paying-him-for-sham-private-investigation/