Background left: Conservative conspiracist Jacob Wohl gives an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., March 2, 2023. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images). Background right: NOV 1, 2018: Jack Burkman speaks to the media about alleged allegations against Robert Mueller at the Holiday Inn in Rosslyn Va. (Credit Image: © John Middlebrook/CSM via ZUMA Wire) (Cal Sport Media via AP Images). Inset: Tom Birner is seen on hidden camera video on the YouTube sting show “Predator D.C.” (YouTube)
Right-wing scammers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are facing a $5 million lawsuit by a Washington, D.C., elementary school teacher over an alleged plot to cast him as a pedophile in a video sting in the style of “To Catch a Predator,” a reality TV series in which men arriving at a house to have sex with a minor are secretly confronted and recorded by hidden cameras.
Tom Patrick Birner said in a 15-page federal complaint filed Wednesday that in May 2022, he met a girl on Tinder who went by the name “Emily” and said she was 19 years old. After the two exchanged phone numbers and some texts, “Emily” encouraged Birner to meet her in Maryland and told him that she was actually 16 years old, according to the filing. Birner, however, says that he believed the girl to be over 16, because she “looked and acted over the age of 16.”
The following month, said Birner, he went to a home in Edgewater, Maryland, that “Emily” said belonged to her parents, where upon arrival, “Emily” told him “to take his clothes off and to sit on the couch in the home and to masturbate while she watched.” The scene Birner described in the filing then unfolded into a sting-style operation designed to create the illusion that law enforcement caught Birner in a sex act with an underage girl.
“After a moment or two, ‘Emily’ excused herself and went upstairs. After ‘Emily’ left the room, Defendants Burkman and Wohl entered the room where Plaintiff was seated along with a camera crew who began filming the Plaintiff while he was naked without warning and without his permission,” the complaint says.
