According to a court document from the United States district court in Maryland, Thomas Goldstein, a successful lawyer and high-stakes poker player, has been indicted on 22 counts of tax evasion and other crimes.<\/p>\n
Goldstein is far better known for his work in law than poker. He has appeared in front of the Supreme Court more than 40 times, and won a Peabody Award in 2013 for excellence in electronic media for his SCOTUSblog<\/a> website after covering the healthcare ruling of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n In 2016 he opened his own practice, Goldstein & Russell, P.C. (G&R), in Maryland. The company specializes in appellate litigation, a process which often sees him arguing before the United States Supreme Court to appeal the previous ruling of a lower court.<\/p>\n In an unusual move for such an accomplished law firm, there was no dedicated, in-house accountant. Instead, the firm manager was responsible for this, along with tasks such as picking up Goldstein\u2019s dry cleaning.<\/p>\n Even if the name doesn\u2019t ring a bell, you may have seen Goldstein play poker before. He was on the losing end of a particularly noteworthy hand on Hustler Casino Live<\/em>, which regularly hosts major cash games players, including controversial figures such as \u2018poker cheat\u2019 Shane Hennen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Disguising his face and being referred to only as ‘Thomas’, Goldstein inexplicably mucked the winning hand after rivering a straight. Had he just flipped over his cards, he\u2019d have scooped a $543,000 pot.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That hand alone would be enough to put some players off of high-stakes games for life – but not Goldstein.<\/p>\n