Thomas Goldstein lost millions playing poker, paid hundreds of thousands to women who didn’t actually work for his company and failed to pay taxes, according to the indictment.

The publisher of a prominent blog about the Supreme Court has been indicted in a multimillion-dollar scheme to evade federal income taxes and use money from his law firm to cover gambling debts from high-stakes poker games.

Tom Goldstein co-founded SCOTUSblog, which chronicles Supreme Court cases. He has appeared dozens of times before the high court.

Tom Goldstein, a top U.S. Supreme Court attorney and publisher of the SCOTUSblog news website, was indicted on Thursday in Maryland federal court for allegedly failing to report millions of dollars he won in poker matches and using his former law firm's accounts to pay his gambling debts.

SCOTUSblog co-founder and prominent Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein was indicted in Maryland on federal tax evasion charges. He is accused of failing to report millions in poker winnings and using his law firm's funds to cover gambling debts.

A supreme court attorney attorney from Maryland who made his name arguing before the Supreme Court is now facing serious legal trouble of his own.Thomas Goldstein, 53, a prominent appellate lawyer and high-stakes poker player known to