President Donald Trump has pardoned British billionaire Joe Lewis, the longtime majority shareholder of the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur who pleaded guilty to insider trading last year.
Lewis was fined $5 million by a New York judge after entering his plea.
A White House official said Trump authorized the pardon after Lewis requested clemency so he could obtain medical treatment and visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the United States, The Athletic reported.
"I am pleased all of this is now behind me, and I can enjoy retirement and watch as my family and extended family continue to build our businesses based on the quality and pursuit of excellence that has become our trademark," Lewis said in a statement.
The billionaire has not been heavily involved with Tottenham since 2022, when he transferred his majority ownership in the club to a family trust.
"Joe and the Lewis family are extremely grateful for this pardon and would like to thank President Trump for taking this action. Over his long business career, Joe has been a visionary, creating businesses across the world which multiple generations of his family are now taking forward. This is why there is so much more to the Joe Lewis story than this one event," a source close to the Lewis family said.
Lewis is the latest in a series of high-profile pardons Trump has issued, joining a list that includes former adviser Rudy Giuliani, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, disgraced former Rep. George Santos, and Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
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