Supreme Court star Tom Goldstein sentenced to six years in prison for hiding millions in poker winnings from the IRS
A prominent Washington lawyer who argued more than 40 cases before the Supreme Court was handcuffed in a Maryland courtroom Friday after a federal judge sentenced him to six years in prison for tax evasion and financial fraud tied to a secret high-stakes gambling habit.Thomas Goldstein, 56, stood before U.S. District Judge Lydia Griggsby in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the end of a day-long hearing and heard a sentence that caps one of the most dramatic falls in modern legal Washington.
The Democrat and co-founder of the widely read legal news site SCOTUSblog (I read this blog) had asked the court for leniency, his defense lawyers requested a term of supervised release that would let him "repay his debts, address his gambling addiction and contribute to society." Griggsby rejected that request outright.
Prosecutors had pushed for more than eight years. The judge split the difference but made clear she saw no ambiguity in the evidence. Reuters reported that Griggsby told the courtroom, "Every American understands that they have an obligation to pay taxes," and added bluntly: "I don't think this is a close case."
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It's so sad to see in our country all the fraud and corruption and abuse today we always used to think that our country was so perfect so free from all of that and now we're seeing so much corruption and fraud on a daily basis it really is so sad we become such sinners so wicked so evil so self-consumed doing so many evil evil things. We need to really pray for our country and our world that more people can turn to Jesus and try to imitate and love like him and stop all this fraud and corruption and waste!
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