A prominent Supreme Court litigator has been sentenced to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud in a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player. A federal judge in Maryland also ordered SCOTUSblog publisher Thomas Goldstein to pay more than $3 million in restitution as part of his sentencing on Friday. A jury found Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial. Goldstein argued over 40 cases before the Supreme Court before retiring in 2023 at age 52.