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Tottenham Hotspur’s owner, one of the largest soccer clubs in Europe, pleaded guilty to insider trading Wednesday, saying he was “embarrassed” by his actions. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan charged Joe Lewis with insider trading for passing along non-public insider information to his friends and personal pilots, allowing them to profit off of news that had not yet been released to the public. Lewis made his fortune running restaurants, shorting the pound with George Soros in the 1990s, netting billions of dollars on the trade. Reuters reports that Lewis is set to be sentenced on March…

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