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Private equity tycoon and ex-Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis guilty of insider trading in US

The former Tottenham Hotspur owner admitted leaking secret stock tips to shower gifts on girlfriends and to avoid having to pay pensions to his private pilots

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's former owner Joe Lewis, 86, admitted illegally handing out secret stocks tips to employees, girlfriends and other people around him to help them get rich
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club's former owner Joe Lewis, 86, admitted illegally handing out secret stocks tips to employees, girlfriends and other people around him to help them get rich Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

Joe Lewis has long been one of the richest people in the United Kingdom, but on 24 January he admitted he was also a cheapskate.

In pleading guilty to felony insider trading charges in federal court in Manhattan, Lewis admitted he had handed secret stock tips to his long-time private pilots, in part, to make up for the fact he had never set up formal retirement plans for them.

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