Long Island’s “lottery lawyer” will head to trial next month on charges he ran a mobbed-up scheme to bilk jackpot winners — and his butt-lift doctor brother-in-law could testify against him in a deal with the feds.
Cosmetic surgeon Scott Blyer would tell jurors that he allegedly helped relative Jason Kurland — who is accused of swindling more than $100 million in prize money — hide “large amounts of income” in a separate tax evasion scheme.
Blyer — a Long Island plastic surgeon whose Instagram account advertises Brazilian butt-lifts and a $5,000 “summer sale” on breast augmentation — also invested in firms that Kurland and reputed Genovese crime family soldier Christopher Chierchio allegedly used to steal from lottery winners, prosecutors say.
Blyer’s testimony was discussed in court filings last week — identified by prosecutors only as Kurland’s “brother-in-law.”
He is expected to testify to the inner workings of the alleged fraud, and how he “invested” his money in Kurland’s mob scheme in order to hide it from the IRS.
Kurland allegedly helped save his brother-in-law some $300,000, returning the money to him after catching wind that the feds were poking around his investments.
After Kurland was arrested in 2020, the prosecutors wrote, he advised Blyer that he could use a “false advertising…
