Indicted Poker Lawyer Says Govt. ‘Intentionally Misled’ Court

Embattled lawyer and high-stakes poker participant Tom Goldstein alleged that prosecutors have “deliberately misled the courtroom” and “made vital false statements” in his tax evasion case.

In earlier courtroom filings, prosecutors with the US Division of Justice alleged Goldstein supplied cryptocurrency and different issues of worth “to a possible witness within the case who has intimate information of his and his legislation agency’s funds and revenue — and that there was no different credible cause for doing so than to try to forestall the potential witness from aiding within the investigation.”

Goldstein filed a movement on March 10 to compel the manufacturing of the witnesses’ grand jury testimony. In a March 14 opposing movement, prosecutors, who haven’t charged Goldstein with witness tampering, clarified that “the witness has defined that (Goldstein) didn’t counsel that the witness not help within the investigation, and the witness can’t testify as to Defendant’s subjective intent.”

Nonetheless, they stated “the information exhibit that (Goldstein) made continued provides of cryptocurrency and issues of worth to the witness who had key details about Defendant’s conduct after the investigation went overt.”

In a March 18 submitting, Goldstein’s attorneys referred to as this a “belated confession” that was “made solely when confronted with the upcoming prospect of being required to reveal the testimony” and that “reveals that the federal government’s prior representations to the Courtroom on this problem had been at a minimal deeply deceptive, and at worst deliberately false.”

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Texts Present Presents of Crypto, Scholar Mortgage Funds to Witness

Although prosecutors opposed Goldstein’s request to evaluation grand jury testimony, they submitted as proof a collection of textual content messages from the witness, who was an worker at Goldstein & Russell when the federal government started its investigation into Goldstein in 2020.

In a November 2020 textual content message, the witness, who had lately give up the agency, wrote that Goldstein had “stalled” on posting the job for his or her substitute “about three weeks to throw off the irs (sic).”

“Lol would that actually throw them off?” the unnamed recipient of the textual content message replied.

“Most likely not, however once I give up he talked about that it might look suspicious to the IRS,” the witness wrote again. “Like I knew one thing.”

A number of weeks later, the witness wrote that Goldstein was “dropping it” and that “this tax stuff have to be attending to him as a result of he retains providing me cash.”

“Bitcoin, pupil mortgage funds, a $10k bonus when an enormous case is available in. costly headphones. Each time he sees me,” the witness wrote on Jan. 21, 2021. “It is so so uncomfortable.”

Prosecutors argued that regardless that the witness didn’t state that Goldstein informed them to not cooperate with the federal government, “the absence of a particular request to not cooperate does little to undermine the robust inference that Defendant (a extremely subtle legal professional) was making an attempt (to) affect the witness by providing the witness issues of worth nicely after the witness had introduced that the witness can be resigning, and the witness’s substitute was employed.”

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“Lack of Candor”

Within the March 18 submitting, Goldstein’s attorneys argued that his fame “was gravely injured by the federal government’s false and deceptive allegations in public filings” that he bribed a witness, in addition to that he “used cryptocurrency accounts in violation of his launch circumstances” and “has entry to thousands and thousands of {dollars} in secret cryptocurrency accounts.”

“The protection respectfully means that the Courtroom handle on the March 25 listening to whether or not sanctions towards the federal government are warranted—within the type of a rebuking the federal government on the file—for its lack of candor,” Goldstein’s attorneys wrote.

Goldstein, the founding father of SCOTUSblog and a distinguished US Supreme Courtroom (SCOTUS) legal professional, faces fees associated to tax evasion, making ready false and fraudulent tax returns, and making false statements on mortgage functions. He has pleaded not responsible to all fees.

Connor Richards is an Editor & Dwell Reporter for PokerNews and host of the Life Outdoors Poker podcast. Connor has been nominated for 2 International Poker Awards for his writing.