https://freerepublic.com/tag/griggsby/ en-us Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:42:24 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389421/posts A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court, had asked U.S. 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... AP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4389421/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:42:24 GMT