Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts.
The indictment, which describes Goldstein as an “ultrahigh-stakes poker player” who played poker games involving “stakes totaling millions, and even ten of millions of dollars,” alleges that between 2016 and 2022 he carried out a scheme to “evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns and fail to pay his tax obligations when they were due.”
Goldstein allegedly used millions of dollars in funds from Goldstein & Russell, a boutique law firm in Bethesda, Maryland, that he solely owned, to cover gambling debts and other personal debts and falsely understated his gambling winnings by millions of dollars in tax filings, according to the indictment.
He also is accused of entering into sham employment arrangements with at least a dozen women who he was in “intimate personal relationships with” or was pursuing. Goldstein allegedly listed the women as “employees” of his law firm, paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars and set them up with health insurance policies through the firm, while they “performed little or no work for the firm.”…

Here is the indictment.