TO BE PUBLISHED

Supreme Court of Kentucky

2024-SC-0260-KB

IN RE: SCOTT BLAIR

IN SUPREME COURT

OPINION AND ORDER 

This case is before the Court upon the Movant’s, Scott Blair, KBA 

Member Number 88683, motion to resign from the Kentucky Bar Association 

(KBA) under terms of permanent disbarment. His bar roster address is 369 

Cornell Avenue 2, Hazard, Kentucky 41701. Kentucky Supreme Court Rule 

(SCR) 3.480(3) allows for “[a]ny member who has been engaged in unethical or 

unprofessional conduct . . . to withdraw his membership under terms of 

permanent disbarment . . . .” The KBA has filed a response expressing no 

objection to Blair’s motion. Having reviewed the record and Blair’s admission of 

unethical conduct, we grant his motion for permanent disbarment.

On April 15, 2024, the Inquiry Commission filed a Petition for Temporary 

Suspension Pursuant to SCR 3.165(1)(b) & (d). However, before this Court 

addressed that petition, on May 10, 2024, Blair entered a guilty plea to 

violating 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343, 1346, Honest Services Wire Fraud, in United 

States v. Blair, 6:24-mj-06038-HAI, in the United States District Court for the 
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Eastern District of Kentucky, Southern Division. Pursuant to SCR 3.166, Blair 

was automatically suspended from the practice of law in the Commonwealth 

the following day, May 11, 2024. He has remained suspended since that date.

According to the plea agreement, Blair admitted the following facts, 

which established his guilt:

(a) From in or about a date in April 2020, and continuing until in or 

about a date in March 2024, the Defendant knowingly and 

intentionally devised a scheme to fraudulently deprive the citizens 

of Perry County, in the Eastern District of Kentucky, of the right to 

the honest services of the Defendant, the elected Commonwealth 

Attorney, through bribery.

(b) The Defendant, in his role as the elected prosecutor was 

responsible for the just administration of the Commonwealth’s 

criminal laws and owed the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its 

citizens a duty to perform his responsibilities free from self 

enrichment.

(c) The Defendant, on multiple occasions, agreed to take official 

actions in his role as the Commonwealth Attorney for the 33rd 

Judicial Circuit (encompassing all of Perry County), including but 

not limited to recommending probation and drug court and not 

recommending probation violations or sanctions for defendants he 

was prosecuting, in exchange for quantities of methamphetamine, 

procurement of methamphetamine, and sexual favors.

(d) As an example, on one occasion, the Defendant engaged in a 

Facebook messenger conversation with an individual who was 

serving a sentence of felony probation in Perry Circuit Court. When 

the individual expressed concerns that his probation would be 

violated after he missed a court date, the Defendant tried to convince 

the individual to come over for a sexual encounter. The Defendant 

assured the individual that the Defendant would not violate the 

individual’s probation. Later messages reveal that an encounter 

occurred, and court records confirm that the individual’s probation 

was not revoked.

(e) On another occasion, the Defendant agreed to recommend drug 

court and probation for an individual in exchange for that individual 

making deliveries of methamphetamine to the Defendant. On 
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numerous occasions, the Defendant would direct that individual to 

pick up methamphetamine for the Defendant. Sometimes the 

Defendant would provide the individual money and direct him which 

source to go to and other times the Defendant would direct the 

individual where to go to pick up prepackaged methamphetamine 

the Defendant had already purchased. The Defendant often 

communicated with the individual to make these demands via 

Facebook messenger. Court records reflect that the individual was 

sentenced to a term of probation and allowed entry into drug court.

The Defendant admitted that he recommended drug court and 

probation for this individual, and that this individual picked up 

methamphetamine for the Defendant on approximately fifteen (15) 

occasions.

(f) Facebook messenger is an internet based social media platform 

that utilizes wire communication to allow individuals to 

communicate with one another.

To this Court, Blair admits to violating SCR 3.130(8.4)(b) which states 

that “[i]t is professional misconduct for a lawyer to . . . commit a criminal act 

that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a 

lawyer in other respects.” He also admits to violating SCR 3.130(8.4)(c) which 

states that “[i]t is professional misconduct for a lawyer to . . . engage in 

conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.”

Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED:

1. Scott Blair is permanently disbarred from the practice of law in the 

Commonwealth of Kentucky;

2. Pursuant to SCR 3.450, Scott Blair is directed to pay all costs 

associated with these disciplinary proceedings in the amount of $76.50,

for which execution may issue from this Court upon finality of this

Opinion and Order; 

3. Pursuant to SCR 3.480(4)(a), Scott Blair shall take all steps necessary 
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and practicable to cease all forms of advertisement of his practice 

immediately upon entry of this Opinion and Order and shall report the 

fact and effect of those steps to the Director of the KBA in writing within 

twenty (20) days after this Opinion and Order is entered; and

4. Pursuant to SCR 3.390, if he has not already done so, Scott Blair

shall, within twenty (20) days from the entry of this Opinion and Order, 

notify all clients, in writing, of his inability to represent them; notify, in 

writing, all courts in which he has matters pending of his disbarment 

from the practice of law; and furnish copies of all letters of notice to the 

Office of Bar Counsel. Furthermore, to the extent possible, Blair shall 

immediately cancel and cease any advertising activities in which he is 

engaged.

All sitting. All concur.

ENTERED: August 22, 2024.

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CHIEF JUSTICE