Ex-Supreme Court litigator gets prison time following double-life as a poker player: ‘Unrelenting greed’
US News Ex-Supreme Court litigator gets prison time following double-life as a poker player: ‘Unrelenting greed’ By Associated Press Published July 24, 2026, 7:57 p.m. Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked US District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to spare him from a prison sentence. Instead, the judge sentenced Goldstein to five years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay over $3.1 million in restitution, according to a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
- ▪US News Ex-Supreme Court litigator gets prison time following double-life as a poker player: ‘Unrelenting greed’ By Associated Press Published July 24, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
- ▪Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked US District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby to spare him from a prison sentence.
- ▪Instead, the judge sentenced Goldstein to five years of supervised release after his prison term and ordered him to pay over $3.1 million in restitution, according to a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office in Maryland.
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