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Joe Lewis: The Cockney rebel facing insider trading charges
The billionaire owner of Tottenham Hotspur normally likes to keep a low profile, but claims that he gave employees, family and friends secret information has brought him into focus
“I really feel that if one is successful, one of the rewards of your success is the quiet enjoyment of it,” Joe Lewis once told the New York Times. “Being on the front page of newspapers doesn’t allow that.”
The mystery to him, he said, was “why there’s anything of particular interest about me”.
That was in 1998. A quarter of a century later, with Lewis now facing charges of insider trading in New York, ...
