A high-profile attorney who has argued cases before the Supreme Court was indicted Thursday after federal prosecutors in Maryland accused him of tax evasion and using his law firm’s money to pay millions of dollars in high-stakes poker debt.
Thomas Goldstein, 54, the publisher of SCOTUSblog, has been charged with several tax-related crimes, along with making false statements on loan applications, according to an federal indictment obtained by HuffPost.
From 2016 until March 2023, Goldstein was the sole owner of his law firm, Goldstein & Russell, and rose to prominence over the years, arguing more than 40 cases in the Supreme Court. In 2002, Goldberg and his wife founded SCOTUSblog, a popular news outlet covering the Supreme Court.
