Leading Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein was rearrested on charges of failing to declare millions in cryptocurrency earnings and allegedly attempting to influence a witness in his federal tax evasion case. Prosecutors argue Goldstein poses a flight risk and violated his bail conditions by failing to disclose two cryptocurrency wallets through which he received and transferred substantial sums.
Leading Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein was rearrested after prosecutors told a judge he represented a"serious risk of flight" from his criminal federal tax evasion case.
Over the last five days Goldstein"sent more than $6 million of cryptocurrency" from those wallets, despite having been ordered by a judge not to transfer any funds without approval, prosecutors wrote in a filing in Maryland federal court. "Defendant's conduct demonstrates that he is a serious risk of flight, that he cannot abide by the conditions of release, and that he has lied to this Court and Pretrial Services," the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office said in the filing."A rebuttable presumption that Defendant is a danger to the community now applies, and Defendant's conditions of release should be revoked," the filing says.
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