Four years ago, a right-wing blogger who loves to share just how bigoted he is,
his name is Theodore Beale,
raised over $1 million to put out a racist superhero movie.
Now, that movie never came to fruition, and
it's because of the people he decided to work with.
Today the movie is in ruins, in fact,
due to a massive scam that completely derailed his project.
Now, everyone, strap right in, because you're about to enjoy a fantastic
story involving a right-winger on a mission to put out toxic poison.
And he was stopped by someone who might even be more toxic than he is.
Now, Theodore Beale, who goes by the alias Vox Day,
has made a career off of being a not-so-great person.
He's pretty unsavory.
Beale has praised racially motivated acts of terror and
railed against multiracial societies.
On January 6th, for instance, he wrote, import the third-worlders.
Then relax and enjoy the inevitable child rape that accompanies
the descent into third-world society.
Beale also told the author John Brown in 2015 that Black men are 500
times more likely to possess a gene variant that is linked to violence and
aggression than white American men.
Which of course is not true, but he's dabbling in that disgusting bigotry.
That's what he does.
Beale also said that women shouldn't have the right to vote because they
are significantly inclined to vote for whomever they'd rather have sex with,
although he used different language.
And that society is harmed when women are educated beyond high school.
Now, I don't know if you guys are aware of this.
But there haven't been too many presidential candidates in US history that
women are dying to have sex with.
But nonetheless, I'll continue, I'll continue.
Now, in 2019, Beale asked his followers, who call themselves his minions,
seems like they've got a healthy relationship with this guy,
to help crowdfund his idea for a superhero movie.
Now, the film would be called Rebel's Run, starring Rebel,
a character co-created by Beale.
In fact, this is what the character looks like.
Obviously, you can see the Confederate flag decorations on her corset.
And as for the film's plot, Rebel was going to be hunted down by a global
police force hell-bent on silencing conservative voices.
Beale's supporters easily surpassed the fundraising goal of
$750,000 that he needed to essentially produce this film.
But he not only surpassed it, he was able to raise $1 million for it.
Now, what did he do with all that money?
Beale's history of racism could have made it difficult for Rebel's Run,
which stars a character sometimes depicted in a Confederate flag bustier,
to find traditional financing.
Given that track record, he instead turned to Utah-based Ohana Capital Financial,
a business aimed at customers that would struggle to get money elsewhere.
So Ohana Financial was founded by a guy named James Wolfgramm,
who's a self-described crypto billionaire.
Remember that name.
Wolfgramm gladly accepted Beale's crowdfunding money.
And you can understand why as I give you more details.
And he said that he would hold the money in escrow in advance of future financing
for the film.
Now, Wolfgramm actually lied about his wealth, and
he lied about other things as well.
He is no billionaire.
To gain trust with victims and attract them to his businesses.
Wolfgramm used images of cryptocurrency wallets holding millions
of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency, a suitcase full of cash, and
social media posts of expensive sports cars Wolfgramm claimed to own.
However, some of those images were believed to
have been taken from websites and social media feeds of others.
If you might suspect that someone's a scammer, just do a reverse image search.
I'm sure other things will come up.
Now, Wolfgramm had some pretty sinister intentions for
the $1 million that had been raised for this film.
Unbeknownst to Beale and his supporters, an indictment alleges that
Wolfgramm was deeply in debt to one of his business's other clients.
The client had paid Ohana more than $4 million in September of 2020,
several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of what was meant to be
a payment to a Chinese manufacturer of personal protective equipment.
Instead of carrying out the transaction, prosecutors are alleging that
Wolfgramm spent the millions on his own unrelated business issues.
So Wolfgramm allegedly used the money from Rebel's Run to basically
buy that personal protective equipment, okay?
Beale soon became suspicious of Wolfgramm and continued, or
I should say, contacted the FBI.
And that's when the FBI did look into it.
And now Wolfgramm faces four counts of wire fraud.
The film's investors may be able to recoup some of that money.
But honestly, that question remains unclear exactly.
Cenk, go ahead.
>> Okay, so I love every part of this story.
So they're like, well, crypto, that's the real way to go, #freedom.
Let's try to trust the crypto bro that we saw online.
Cuz we don't need no stinking regulations, the regulations from the government, man.
We don't want no government regulation to protect us.
We'll just give it to a crypto bro that, yeah.
No, he stole it.
No, what do we do now?
Let's go run to the FBI.
>> [LAUGH] >> No, wait, I thought the FBI was
planting things and terrible and deep state and all that stuff, what happened?
But when you get your money stolen, all of a sudden, FBI, please help me, right?
All of a sudden when deregulation costs you a million bucks, you're like,
please regulate, government!
I'm coming to you for help, please, government!
Okay, but let's keep going.
So this guy says that Blacks are five times more likely to be violent, okay?
He called a Black author a half savage more likely to be violent.
It's a Confederate hero.
>> I know [LAUGH].
>> The Confederates are the ones that did slavery,
the whippings, the lynchings, the rape, the murder,
the theft of children and selling of children on an open market.
Those guys, in this racist mind, are not the violent ones.
The victims of slavery and the lynchings,
they're the violent ones, which is textbook racism, textbook.
And let's note, by the way, that there's, of course,
nothing creative about this project at all.
They're right-wingers.
It's nearly impossible for them to be creative.
That character is just Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazzard.
Just keep it real, right?
And it's a bunch of pervy 80-year-old men going,
I always been in trouble with the law, a bunch of good old boys.
And so they see Daisy Duke again, they're like, yeah, here, take my money,
I want that, I like that.
Okay, well, now your money's gone.