SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein was arrested Monday after prosecutors said he presented an “urgent risk of flight,” according to court documents.
Goldstein received and transferred millions of dollars of cryptocurrency through undisclosed, unhosted wallets over the last five days—all “while attempting to shed the bond placed on his D.C. residence by telling the Court he is destitute,” prosecutors said in a motion for an arrest publicly filed on Monday.
The prosecutors have probable cause that Goldstein violated 18 U.S.C. 1001 because of his false statements to pretrial services officers, they said.
Goldstein was charged Jan. 16 in a 22-count indictment ...