Scoop: Indicted billionaire Joe Lewis sold property to Sam Bankman-Fried
Joe Lewis, the 86 year-old billionaire owner of football club Tottenham Hotspur, was forced to secure possibly the largest bail bond in history while facing insider trading charges, worth $300 million — about $50 million more than FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. In an interesting twist of fate, Lewis sold Bankman-Fried numerous properties located in the Bahamas worth upwards of $76 million through his company Tavistock. Lewis is accused of helping his ex-girlfriend — then 23 year-old Carolyn Carter — and his personal pilots invest in numerous biotech companies before positive news was announced publicly. The three individuals cumulatively profited over half a million dollars. Joe Lewis, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Jean Chalopin Lewis, who owns thousands of acres of land in Argentina and moved to the Bahamas as a “tax exile” in 1975, has put his $250 million superyacht and his private plane up as collateral for his extremely high bail bond. The billionaire is pleading not...