Dang, I feel really awful for Tom. Here's Bloomberg's coverage of the verdict:
Poker-playing former US Supreme Court litigator Tom Goldstein has been found guilty of 12 of 16 counts following a six week trial in Maryland.
Jurors returned their verdict late on Wednesday following two and a half days of deliberations.
Goldstein was found guilty on one count of tax evasion, one count each of willful failure to timely pay taxes for four tax years, three counts of making a false statement on a loan application, and four out of eight counts of aiding and assisting in preparation of a false tax return. He was found not guilty on the other four counts.
The convictions for making a false statement on a loan application carry the heftiest potential penalties—a maximum of 30 years for each count. He also faces a maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment for tax evasion, three years for each count of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, and one year on each count of willful failure to pay taxes.
Meantime, I was in trial this week in a criminal case before Judge Middlebrooks with Lauren Krasnoff and Lauren Perez. The jury hung. Bocanewsnow covered some of the interesting jury notes we received.
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Basically the federal version of what Drumpf got found guilty on in NY...
He had an uphill battle from what I saw. Now he is going to get whacked with the odious/vindicative trial tax.
Down goes the poker defense. Sad for him. Long road ahead. None of it good.
You mean he’s going to get a worse sentence than on a plea because he no longer gets three levels off for acceptance of responsibility and gets additional levels added based on his trial testimony the jury found not credible?
One man's trial tax is another man's guilty plea discount.
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