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 convicted of tax evasion over income from high-stakes poker
A prominent Supreme Court litigator who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court has been convicted of tax evasion and related charges stemming from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker player.
Goldstein Guilty On Tax Evasion, 11 Other Counts
SCOTUSblog founder and famed U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, as well as aiding in the filing of false tax returns and lying on loan applications, by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday.
Prominent Washington lawyer Tom Goldstein convicted at tax trial
A U.S. jury on Wednesday convicted prominent Washington lawyer Thomas Goldstein of tax and financial crimes tied to his side career as a high-stakes poker player, a stunning fall for a man who was one of the top U.S. appellate attorneys and often argued cases at the Supreme Court.
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