SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein appeals fraud conviction
SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein is appealing his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)
SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein is appealing his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, according to a court filing by his attorneys.
Goldstein was sentenced in July after a trial that exposed his penchant for high-stakes gambling.
Cooley attorney and former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar filed a notice of appeal Friday in Maryland federal court stating that Goldstein would appeal his sentencing order, including “any and all preceding orders and ruling subsumed within the judgment,” according to a story by Law360.
Goldstein was convicted in February on 12 counts of tax evasion, assisting in the preparation of false returns, failing to timely pay taxes and mortgage fraud.
A Maryland federal jury found that he underreported poker winnings on his 2016 tax return, hid legal income from his law firm’s accountants, and failed to provide information about his multimillion-dollar gambling-related debts from home lenders.
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