SCOTUSblog writer sentenced to six years in prison for tax evasion
nbcwashington.com
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For tax evasion, not for anything related to SCOTUSblog, though being a writer for that blog may have gotten him additional scrutiny.
Updated. Had been trying not to make it overlong.
Specifically for tax evasion related to an addiction to playing poker with billionaires.
> “He is not wealthy enough to sustain the losses of the billionaires he has played against, and he is not good enough at poker to win at the rate of professionals,” they wrote.
Tobey Maguire was among the witnesses. He had hired Goldstein to help collect a $7.8 million poker debt from billionaire Andy Beal.