{"id":138804,"date":"2025-11-14T04:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138804\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T04:12:10","slug":"former-tottenham-hotspur-owner-joe-lewis-set-to-receive-trump-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138804\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis set to receive Trump pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis is expected to be given an official pardon by US president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Lewis, who handed ownership of the club to the Lewis Family Trust in 2022, was fined $5 million (\u20ac4.3 million) last year after the British billionaire pleaded guilty to insider trading.<\/p>\n

The Lewis family took full operational control of Tottenham this year, after former chairman Daniel Levy stepped down.<\/p>\n

But Lewis will not be returning to the club, which will continue to be run by the next generation of the Lewis family.<\/p>\n

\"TottenhamTottenham Hotspur owner Daniel Levy and Joe Lewis in the stands (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

The White House is due to publish Lewis\u2019s pardon later today.<\/p>\n

Lewis said: \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source close to the Lewis family added: \u201cJoe and the Lewis family are extremely grateful for this pardon and would like to thank President Trump for taking this action.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver his long business career, Joe has been a visionary, creating businesses across the world which multiple generations of his family are now taking forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why there is so much more to the Joe Lewis story than this one event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spurs is now run by Joe Lewis\u2019 daughter Vivienne, son Charles and Vivienne\u2019s husband Nick Beucher, as well as non-executive chairman Peter Charrington and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham.<\/p>\n

Mr Levy stepped down as chairman of the club in September after nearly 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis is expected to be given an official pardon by US president Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-138804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}