US EditionProminent Washington lawyer Tom Goldstein convicted at tax trial
A jury convicted Goldstein of 12 counts including tax evasion and false statements linked to concealing over $26 million in poker winnings, after a seven-week trial in Maryland.
- On Feb 25, a 12-person jury in Greenbelt, Maryland convicted Thomas Goldstein of tax and financial crimes after a seven-week trial, finding him guilty on 12 of the 16 counts he faced.
- Last year, prosecutors indicted Goldstein after accusing him of concealing poker winnings over $26 million in late 2016 and omitting a $15 million gambling debt on mortgage forms.
- Jurors heard 15 days of evidence over 6 weeks, including Goldstein's testimony and Tobey Maguire describing routing a $500,000 fee, in his own defense.
- He is due to be sentenced at a later date and faces maximum prison exposure of five years for tax evasion and up to 30 years for false loan statements; the jury has yet to decide forfeiture of his Washington, D.C. home.
- Goldstein had been a leading Supreme Court lawyer and co‑founder of SCOTUSblog, arguing more than 40 Supreme Court cases before retiring in 2023; prosecutors called it 'a textbook tax-evasion scheme' triggered by another gambler who notified the IRS.
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Supreme Court Litigator and SCOTUSblog Founder Convicted of Tax Evasion
A co-founder of the SCOTUSblog website and former Supreme Court litigator was convicted Wednesday on tax evasion and other charges by a jury in Maryland, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Thomas Goldstein, 55, was found guilty of tax evasion, assisting with preparing false tax returns, willfully failing to timely pay taxes, and making false statements to mortgage lenders. Prosecutors said some of the charges stemmed from him concealing …
SCOTUSblog co-founder convicted of tax and mortgage fraud
A prominent Supreme Court litigator who published a popular blog on the high court and moonlighted as a high-stakes poker player was convicted Wednesday of tax evasion and other charges tied to his secretive gambling lifestyle. Tom Goldstein, co-founder of SCOTUSblog, was found guilty on 12 of 16 charges he faced following a trial in...
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A prominent Supreme Court litigator and SCOTUSblog co-founder was convicted of tax evasion stemming from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker...
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