Tom Goldstein, a prominent Supreme Court lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog, was indicted Thursday for allegedly evading taxes for years and taking millions from his law firm’s funds to cover gambling debts.

Goldstein, an “ultrahigh-stakes poker player,” allegedly orchestrated a scheme between 2016 and 2022 to “evade the assessment of taxes, file false tax returns, and fail to pay his tax obligations when they were due,” according to the federal indictment in Maryland. Prosecutors accused Goldstein of funneling millions from his boutique law firm, Goldstein & Russell PC, to cover gambling losses and other personal debts, and failing to report his poker winnings on his tax forms.

Goldstein also allegedly set up sham employment arrangements with at least a dozen women he was pursuing or in “intimate personal relationships with.” Goldstein, the indictment said, listed the women as “employees” of his law firm, paid them hundreds of thousands of dollars, and enrolled them in firm-sponsored health insurance—despite the women “perform[ing] little or no work for the firm.”

Goldstein’s poker games often involved “stakes totaling millions, and even ten of millions of dollars,” prosecutors said. Goldstein secured a seat at the 2008 World Series in Las Vegas by defeating 130 poker players and won $100,000 in an 18-hour game, the Washington Post reported.

In 2003, Goldstein co-founded SCOTUSblog, which has grown to be the most widely-read blog covering the Supreme Court. Goldstein argued more than 40 cases in front of the High Court, including the landmark copyright case Google v. Oracle. Goldstein retired from private practice in 2023, citing the Court’s increasingly conservative shift as a factor.