Billionaire Tottenham owner Joe Lewis indicted in the US for ‘brazen insider trading scheme’

Lewis, 86, is the founder and primary investor of Bahamas-based investment firm Tavistock Group

Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis has been indicted in a New York court (PA Wire)

British billionaire and Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis has been indicted in New York for “orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme”, a US attorney said.

Damian Williams, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a video released by his office: “Today I’m announcing that my office, the Southern District of New York, has indicted Joe Lewis, the British billionaire, for orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme.