The British billionaire proprietor of Tottenham Hotspur, Joe Lewis has been indicted for orchestrating a "brazen" insider buying and selling scheme, the US legal professional in Manhattan has stated.

In a video posted on messaging platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, Damian Williams stated: "Today I'm asserting that my workplace, the southern district of New York has indicted Joe Lewis, the British billionaire, for orchestrating a brazen insider buying and selling scheme.

"We allege that for years Joe Lewis abused access to corporate board rooms and repeatedly provided inside information to his romantic partners, his personal assistants, his pilots and his friends.

"Those people then traded on that inside info and made tens of millions of {dollars} on the inventory market. Thanks to Lewis these bets had been a certain factor.

"None of this was mandatory. Joe Lewis is a rich man, however as we allege he used insider info to compensate his workers, or to bathe items on his buddies and lovers.

"That's classic corporate corruption. It's cheating and it's against the law."

Joe Lewis owns the Tavistock Group, with greater than 200 property throughout 13 nations, by which he owns Tottenham Hotspur and the UK pub operator Mitchells & Butlers. Forbes places his wealth at £4.65bn.

He purchased a controlling stake within the premier league membership from Alan Sugar for £22m in 2001.

The 86-year-old lives within the Bahamas, a far cry from his humble beginnings in London's East End.

Lewis was born to a Jewish household above a pub in Roman Road, Bow, Lewis left college at 15 to assist run his father's West End catering enterprise, Tavistock Banqueting. he bought the enterprise in 1979, forming th foundation of his preliminary fortune earlier than transferring into foreign money buying and selling.

In 1992, he allegedly teamed up with American billionaire George Soros to guess on the pound crashing out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (EERM).

Black Wednesday, because it grew to become recognized, sank sterling and compelled the British authorities to withdraw the pound from the EERM.

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