{"id":289641,"date":"2023-09-05T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=289641"},"modified":"2023-09-05T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T16:34:06","slug":"ex-spurs-owner-joe-lewis-due-back-in-court-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/ex-spurs-owner-joe-lewis-due-back-in-court-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Spurs owner Joe Lewis due back in court in January"},"content":{"rendered":"
Joe Lewis,\u00a0the British billionaire whose family trust owns a majority share in Premier League soccer club\u00a0Tottenham Hotspur, is not slated to re-appear in a New York courtroom until January over his alleged role in a ‘brazen’ insider trading scheme.<\/p>\n
The 86-year-old, whose fortune is estimated to be worth $6.1billion, pleaded not guilty to 19 counts of insider trading and conspiracy in a Manhattan courtroom back in July.<\/p>\n
Lewis surrendered to the FBI\u00a0before being released on $300million bond, secured by his superyacht Aviva – which is worth $250million – and personal aircraft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was ordered tp hand over his passport and cannot leave the United States.<\/p>\n
Initially, Lewis was expected back in court on Tuesday but it is understood the 86-year-old will now wait until early 2024.<\/p>\n
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British billionaire Joe Lewis is not expected to re-appear in a New York courtroom until January\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Tottenham described the charges against Lewis as a ‘legal matter unconnected with the club’<\/p>\n
Lewis is accused of ‘orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme’ by passing on tips about companies to friends, personal assistants, private pilots and romantic partners.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The alleged crimes are said to have taken place between 2013 and 2021, when Lewis was Spurs\u2019 owner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lewis appeared in federal court on July 26, along with two of his pilots and co-defendants – Patrick O’Connor and Bryan Waugh. They are suspected of making millions of dollars in illegal profit from Lewis’ tips. They, too, pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
The hearing saw the billionaire charged with 16 counts of securities fraud and three counts of conspiracy. The charges each carry a maximum prison sentence of between five and 25 years.<\/p>\n
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The 86-year-old is pictured alongside Spurs chairman Daniel Levy (right) in north London\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor, from New York, and Waugh, from Virginia, each face seven counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Lewis\u2019 Tavistock Group has investments across more than 200 companies and 13 countries,\u00a0including ENIC which bought a controlling stake in Tottenham in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n But Spurs responded to the scandal surrounding Lewis with a statement describing the charges as a ‘legal matter unconnected with the club.’<\/p>\n The ownership of ENIC passed to the Lewis Family Discretionary Trust in October last year and Lewis is not a beneficiary, meaning he no longer comes under Premier League rules, which bar owners who are being investigated by a criminal authority.<\/p>\n The family trust is managed by two independent professional trustees \u2014 Katie Louise Booth, a Briton living in the Bahamas, and Bryan Antoine Glinton, a Bahamian lawyer \u2014 on behalf of its beneficiaries and they have been listed as the persons of significant control at Spurs since October.<\/p>\n