Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein rearrested as ‘serious’ flight risk after hiding cryptocurrency, prosecutors say
Tom Goldstein, a partner at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLC, poses for a photo outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010.
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The leading Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein was rearrested Monday after federal prosecutors told a judge he represented a “serious risk of flight” from his criminal tax evasion case after failing to disclose the existence of two cryptocurrency wallets through which he receive more than $8 million.
Over the last five days Goldstein “sent more than $6 million of cryptocurrency” from those wallets, prosecutors wrote in a filing in Maryland federal court.
The SCOTUSblog publisher Goldstein was indicted in January on federal tax evasion charges that allege he failed to declare millions of dollars in poker winnings and used his law firm’s money to pay his gambling debts.
Goldstein, who has argued before the Supreme Court more than nearly any other attorney in private practice in modern times, is accused of willfully failing to pay more than $5.3 million in taxes.
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