Tom Goldstein is fighting back this week against the government’s wild indictment, which painted a picture of Goldstein balancing a successful Supreme Court practice with an international high-stakes poker career, iffy financial arrangements, and multiple mistresses. He calls these government theories “radical” and “breathtaking.”
But if this all sounds like a made-for-TV story, consider that Goldstein’s life was once pitched as an NBC pilot in 2009. It never got picked up. What was the show’s tentative title?
Hint: It’s not This Is (SCOT)Us, but that would’ve been a funny.
See the answer on the next page.