BitClub Network Ponzi scammer Joby Weeks has spent $40,000 lobbying the US Senate, House of Representatives, DOJ and White House.

A public disclosure filing, covering January to March 2025, reveals Weeks hired JM Burkman & Associates to lobby on his behalf.

JM Burkman is run by Jack Burkman, who works closely with Jacob Wahl. Burkman and Wahl are named in Weeks’ public disclosure filing.

What makes Weeks hiring JM Burkman & Associates somewhat tragic is both Burkman and Wahl are themselves convicted fraudsters. The pair were convicted of telecom fraud back in 2022.

Seeking to manipulate the 2020 election, Burkman and Wahl ran

a robocall campaign in largely Black neighborhoods in several states telling people not to vote by mail.

An Ohio judge ordered them to spend 500 hours registering people to vote, and the Federal Communications Commission fined them $5 million.

In 2020, the two hired actors to stage a fake FBI raid on Burkman’s house and tricked The Washington Post into writing up the phony incident. Wohl used the Klein surname in that incident, too.

The year before, Wohl was charged in California for selling an unregistered security. He pled guilty to four felony counts and was sentenced to two years of probation, according to court records in Riverside County.

The above is from Politico, reporting on Burkman and Wahl’s latest grift. As of mid to late 2024, “LobbyMatic” was a purported “AI lobbying firm” Burkman and Wahl ran under aliases.

Today LobbyMatic’s website is defunct. But, as per Weeks’ disclosure filing, it seems Burkman and Wahl are still taking money for lobbying activity. Easy money I guess.

Where Weeks got $40,000 to pay Burkman and Wahl from is a mystery. Ditto whether Weeks has ramped up his lobbying efforts in Q2 2025.

BitClub Network was a $722 million dollar MLM crypto Ponzi. The scam began to collapse in 2016 before disabling daily returns altogether in 2018.

Weeks (right) and several co-conspirators were charged and arrested in November 2019.

Weeks pled guilty to conspiring to offer and sell unregistered securities and tax evasion in 2020. Following Weeks’ plea, sentencing has continuously been delayed without a publicly disclosed reason.

In that time Weeks ditched his ex-wife with cancer, remarried and knocked up his new wife. As of May 20th, Weeks’ release conditions see him subject to home incarceration with his new wife in Florida.

What exactly Weeks has hired JM Burkman & Associates to lobby for is unclear. That said, it likely ties into Weeks attempting to withdraw his guilty plea.

Over the past few months, Weeks has also flooded his BitClub Network case docket with motions to dismiss.

On May 26th Weeks moved to withdraw one of his motions, claiming it

included language and claims that reflected a different stage in Defendant legal approach.

The court has yet to rule on Weeks’ remaining motions.

On May 30th Weeks filed a “supplemental authority” to support his motions. In the filing, Weeks argues his case should be dismissed as per the DOJ’s purported “revised policy to de-prioritize purely regulatory charges” (i.e. the “crime is now legal” defense).

One of the cases Weeks cites is United States v. Storm, aka the Tornado Cash criminal case.

Writes Weeks;

The Department of Justice’s revised policy, dated April 7, 2025 (the Todd Bianca memo), prioritizing dismissal of purely regulatory charges that do not involve actual financial harm to victims.

I can think of at least 722 million examples of financial harm to victims through BitConnect, but I digress.