2023-07-29 06:47:52
She presents herself on the social network that she uses the most as a “digital creator”. But in the briefs that are in court for the Southern District Court of New York, Carloyn Carter is described as “the girlfriend of Joe Lewis.” In that dependency of the North American Justice, the federal prosecutor Damian Williams settled the foundations to accuse the British businessman of corporate corruption.
For the New York prosecutor’s office, Joe Lewis used his position of power on the boards of different companies to access privileged information that he later used for selected people in his environment to carry out stock market operations exempt from all risk, and with the insured guarantee. to achieve immediate economic benefits.
Girlfriend and investor. The environment mentioned in the judicial investigation was made up of some assistants of Joe Lewis, by a “friend with whom he played poker in Argentina” (SIC); his two pilots of his – Patrick O’Connor and Bryan “Marty” Waugh – his girlfriend Carolyn Carter, whose full name is Carolyn Whitney Carter-Heller. In fact, the three people mentioned appear on the cover of the file as “defendants”, along with the name of the British businessman.
“Lewis illegally delivered non-public material information to (Carolyn) Carter, which Carter then illegally negotiated,” he says in one of the points detailing what illegal activity both would have carried out. In turn, the personal bond that they maintained is described. “Lewis and Carter had a close personal relationship, which made Carter realize that Lewis confided in him confidential information. (…) Lewis and Carter had a close romantic relationship from regarding 2013 to 2020. Carter moved in with Lewis in 2015 or 2016. She frequently gave him gifts, including cash transfers in the amount of regarding $100,000 per year ”.
Direct connection. In the accusation signed by the New York prosecutor Damian Williams, he also dedicates several points to substantiate that this sentimental relationship had a chapter in which Joe Lewis advised his ex-girlfriend with confidential corporate data so that she can invest, even through from a stock market operator who is also trusted by the businessman.
“Lewis also took a direct interest in Carter’s investments,” the filing states. “In fact, Lewis provided Carter with the funds that she used to open an account with the stockbroker. in November 2016. He then often guided Carter’s investment strategy. For example, she encouraged Carter’s first trade on March 15, 2017, which was the purchase of biotech stock. And between his first trade in March 2017 and the end of October 2019, Carter only traded stocks that the fund and/or Lewis had invested in. that Lewis took the confidential information). In fact, Carter would sometimes email Lewis when one of these companies was doing particularly well or poorly on a given trading day. (…) Lewis also kept Carter informed regarding the companies in which she had invested the fund. Notably, from no later than April 2017 to at least April 2020, Lewis often directed the sending of confidential emails and attachments to Carter, including account statements and confidential analysis of the companies in the investment portfolio. her. These statements showed all the companies in which the fund was invested, including the number of shares and the percentage of each company that the fund owned. Lewis shared these statements with Carter, even though she had been told they were confidential and not to be shared.”
Thousands and millions. At the moment, Carolyn Carter did not appear in court in New York. Neither was she mentioned in any statement or in international newspaper articles following the case, whether she had or will have to pay any bail as the pilots Patrick O’Connor and Bryan “Marty” Waugh, and Joe Lewis himself had to do. A bail of two hundred thousand dollars was applied to the first two, respectively. To Lewis, one of three hundred million dollars. In addition, his passport was withdrawn, he was prohibited from leaving the United States; two of his properties –one in New York and another in Florida– were accepted as places of residence in that country; and to move to another place in the United States outside of those two addresses, he must inform and request authorization to do so in his own private plane. Finally, Lewis agreed to hand over his Aviva yacht – while the investigation lasts – and cannot even set foot on the ship; as well as not having contact with three of the witnesses who, for the prosecution, are his employees.
Upgrade. There is no information regarding how Carloyn Carter met Joe Lewis. Her present shows her – according to her Instagram account – showing her relaxing in her native Virgin Islands and exhibiting a fashionista spirit. There is only one detail that – mediamye prejudice – would show that the affective bond is maintained between her and Lewis. Last June 23, she posed with a BMW X5 truck and wrote: “Upgraded my ex” (Update of my ex). Carter participated in beauty pageants and competed to be Miss World. “She did it because it was the way to overcome shyness,” she said in 2016. Her social network shows that shyness is something that has been overcome.
“What Joe Lewis did was not necessary”
US Attorney Damian Williams said: “My office, the Southern District of New York, indicted Joe Lewis, the British billionaire, with orchestrating a brazen insider trading scheme and his co-conspirators and personal pilots. We allege that, for years, Joe Lewis abused his access to corporate boards and repeatedly provided inside information to his romantic partners, his personal assistants, his friends and his pilots. Those people then traded with that inside information, and they made millions of dollars in the stock market, because, thanks to Lewis, those bets were safe. None of this was necessary. Joe Lewis is a wealthy man, but he used inside information as a way to compensate his employees or to shower his friends and lovers with gifts. That’s classic corporate corruption: it’s cheating and it’s once morest the law that applies, no matter who you are.”
Lewis is charged with thirteen counts of securities fraud, each carrying a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison; three more counts of securities fraud, with maximum sentences of twenty-five years in prison; and three counts of conspiracy, with a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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