{"id":163274,"date":"2026-09-21T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/21\/former-trump-attorney-alleges-misconduct-in-prosecution-of-tom-goldstein\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:17:00","slug":"former-trump-attorney-alleges-misconduct-in-prosecution-of-tom-goldstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/21\/former-trump-attorney-alleges-misconduct-in-prosecution-of-tom-goldstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump Attorney Alleges Misconduct In Prosecution Of Tom Goldstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Viewed in context, the above violations of [Supreme Court lawyer Thomas] Goldstein\u2019s rights were part and parcel of the government\u2019s litigation strategy\u2014not mistakes. Indeed, prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings below: shifting its theory of liability to pin on Goldstein whatever it could, misleading the Court in <em>ex parte<\/em> filings, flouting the government\u2019s <em>Brady<\/em> obligations, making false representations at sentencing, and inflaming the jury rather than focusing on the conduct charged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/desktop\/document\/USvThomasGoldsteinDocketNo26043924thCirAug072026CourtDocket\/3?doc_id=XL2SG0NKTJ8BPPBSA6UJOS2J59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amicus brief<\/a> from former DOJ attorney (and former attorney to Donald Trump) John Dowd in the appeal of SCOTUSblog founder\/attorney Tom Goldstein\u2019s conviction on tax and mortgage fraud charges, stemming from allegations he participated in high-stakes poker games and failed to disclose his winnings (in tax filings) and losings (in loan applications).<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/former-trump-attorney-alleges-misconduct-in-prosecution-of-tom-goldstein\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former Trump Attorney Alleges Misconduct In Prosecution Of Tom Goldstein<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-95918858-300x205.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"post-single__featured-image-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Stephen Voss\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Viewed in context, the above violations of [Supreme Court lawyer Thomas] Goldstein\u2019s rights were part and parcel of the government\u2019s litigation strategy\u2014not mistakes. Indeed, prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings below: shifting its theory of liability to pin on Goldstein whatever it could, misleading the Court in <em>ex parte<\/em> filings, flouting the government\u2019s <em>Brady<\/em> obligations, making false representations at sentencing, and inflaming the jury rather than focusing on the conduct charged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/desktop\/document\/USvThomasGoldsteinDocketNo26043924thCirAug072026CourtDocket\/3?doc_id=XL2SG0NKTJ8BPPBSA6UJOS2J59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amicus brief<\/a> from former DOJ attorney (and former attorney to Donald Trump) John Dowd in the appeal of SCOTUSblog founder\/attorney Tom Goldstein\u2019s conviction on tax and mortgage fraud charges, stemming from allegations he participated in high-stakes poker games and failed to disclose his winnings (in tax filings) and losings (in loan applications).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viewed in context, the above violations of [Supreme Court lawyer Thomas] Goldstein\u2019s rights were part and parcel of the government\u2019s litigation strategy\u2014not mistakes. Indeed, prosecutorial misconduct pervaded every stage of the proceedings below: shifting its theory of liability to pin on Goldstein whatever it could, misleading the Court in ex parte filings, flouting the government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}