Cases / Investment funds & advisory
Jason Kurland, Christopher Chierchio, Frangesco Russo, Francis Smookler
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- Industry
- Investments for lottery winners steered into co-conspirators' businesses
- How investors were recruited
- Kurland, an attorney, targeted lottery jackpot winners who were his clients (Mega Millions, Powerball winners)
- Pitch & red flags
- portions of stolen funds paid back as "interest payments on their investments"
Pitch phrases from this case
Source
U.S. Department of Justice official
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