ENCORE: Long Island Liars

Scamfluencers

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Lottery Lawyer’s luck has run out: Jason Kurland is now behind bars. We revisit how he went from a Long Island real estate lawyer to eventually representing major lottery winners. He claimed to help new millionaires and billionaires manage their wealth. But once these unsuspecting winners gave Jason access to their bank accounts, their sudden good fortune started to look like a curse. And Jason and his buddies felt like they hit the jackpot.

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0:08.0	Sarah, picture this. You're a lottery winner who is going to court in Long Island because your lawyer screwed you over.
0:15.3	Please describe your outfit.
0:17.1	I think I'll try and look as broke as possible for maximum sympathy.
0:24.2	Go in wearing like a barrel with suspenders or something.
0:27.3	Right.
0:28.4	Like a cartoon.
0:29.7	Yeah.
0:31.5	That's a good answer. I would like to go looking like every season of the nanny rolled into one. Like full on mob wife and that would be appropriate for the trial that we're going to talk about today.
0:42.6	Do you remember the real estate lawyer turned lottery lawyer
0:46.0	Jason Curland?
0:47.3	Yeah, he's a guy who preyed on lottery winners
0:49.7	and tried getting them to invest in his buddy's risky business, right?
0:53.8	That's right.
0:54.8	Well, we have an update for our listeners.
0:56.8	Jason ran out of luck and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
1:00.7	He defrauded three lottery winners out of nearly a hundred million dollars.
1:04.4	One of his pals, Christopher Churchill, who pocketed 25 million dollars in winnings, pled
1:09.6	guilty to money laundering.
1:11.6	He got sentenced to five years. Of course, everyone's biggest
1:14.9	offense here was their Long Island accents. In a statement, the U.S. attorney in the trial
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