President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Joe Lewis, a British billionaire who pleaded guilty last year to federal insider trading charges.

Lewis, whose family remains the controlling shareholder of the English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, was indicted in 2023 on allegations that he schemed for years to abuse his access to corporate boardrooms and repeatedly shared inside information with romantic partners, associates, private pilots and others.

“Mr. Lewis admitted he made a terrible mistake, did not fight extradition in the case, and paid a $5 million fine,” a White House official told NBC News in a statement Thursday confirming the pardon first reported by The Athletic.

The statement said that the 88-year-old Lewis, who now lives in the Bahamas, “requested a pardon

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