‘Gambling’ Supreme Court news site publisher indicted for allegedly dodging $5.3m in taxes
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Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUBlog, is a prominent attorney who specialized in Supreme Court litigation. The publisher of a notable Supreme Court news site has been indicted on tax charges. “Goldstein was also an ultra-high-stakes poker player, frequently playing in matches or series of matches in the United States and abroad involving stakes totaling millions, and even tens of millions, of dollars,” the 22-count indictment reads.
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The indictment states Goldstein lost more than $16 million to gambling between March and August 2017. Prosecutors also argued that Goldstein schemed to "evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns and fail to pay his tax obligations when they were due." The indictment claims he owes more than $5.3 million in unpaid income taxes.
"Goldstein willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021 taxes when due, despite spending millions of dollars on personal expenses, including luxury purchases and payments to and on behalf of women," the indictment reads. They added: "We are deeply disappointed that the government brought these charges in a rush to judgment without understanding all of the important facts. Our client intends to vigorously contest these charges and we expect he will be exonerated at trial.".
Goldstein is a prominent attorney who specialized in Supreme Court litigation before retiring from private practice last year. He argued more than 40 cases before the nation’s highest court, including Google v. Oracle, a historic copyright case, according to Law360.
