July 21, 2022
"Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland mounted a short defense case in his criminal trial Thursday, playing the Brooklyn federal jury a series of wiretapped calls where Kurland's business partners discuss keeping him in the dark about the extent of the scheme to defraud his jackpot-winning clients.
July 20, 2022
The managing partner of Rivkin Radler LLP took the stand Wednesday in the $80 million fraud trial of former partner Jason "Lottery Lawyer" Kurland, telling Brooklyn federal jurors that Kurland never told the firm he was investing client funds in his own businesses and taking referral fees.
July 19, 2022
"Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland stole from a South Carolina-based client and concealed key information as he invested portions of her $1.5 billion Mega Millions payday in risky small business loans, diamonds and racehorses, the jackpot winner told a Brooklyn federal jury Tuesday.
July 18, 2022
Counsel for "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland on Monday attacked the credibility of a former business partner's testimony in Kurland's $80 million fraud trial, pointing Brooklyn federal jurors to wiretaps where the cooperating witness called Kurland "prey" and suggested setting him up as a fall guy.
July 14, 2022
A former business partner of "lottery lawyer" Jason Kurland told a New York federal jury Thursday how they worked together to funnel $80 million from lottery-winner clients to their loan business, lost it all, and how "fear, panic" set in when the FBI came knocking.
July 13, 2022
Counsel for "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland told a Brooklyn federal jury Wednesday that prosecutors made a "terrible mistake" charging the ex-Rivkin Radler LLP partner with defrauding clients out of $80 million, saying Kurland was a victim of former business partners who are now the government's star witnesses.
June 08, 2022
A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied renewed motions for separate trials by former Rivkin Radler LLP partner Jason "The Lottery Lawyer" Kurland and alleged Genovese crime family soldier Christopher Chierchio, who both stand accused of cheating lottery winner clients out of millions of dollars.
May 24, 2022
A purported co-conspirator of "Lottery Lawyer" Jason Kurland on Tuesday pled guilty to fraud and other charges over a pair of alleged schemes to extract tens of millions of dollars from lottery winners and an extortion plot, while Kurland and an accused Genovese crime family soldier renewed their push for separate trials.
May 20, 2022
The "Lottery Lawyer" accused of plundering his clients' winnings once again proclaimed his innocence in a Brooklyn federal court on Friday as he pled not guilty to a superseding indictment that his new attorney argued showed prosecutors' shifting theory in the case.
February 23, 2022
The "Lottery Lawyer" accused of stealing his clients' winnings cannot be tried separately from the scheme's purported mafioso co-conspirators, a Brooklyn federal judge said Tuesday.