May
22
Insider Trading Case Links Golfer, Banker and Gambler
ByPhil Mickelson has five major golf championships and countless endorsement deals. Thomas C. Davis, a former investment banker, has a Harvard pedigree and a country club lifestyle.
They also had a secret.
Both men owed money to William T. Walters, a high-rolling Las Vegas kingmaker, often considered the most successful sports bettor in the country.
Now, federal authorities say those debts were at the center of a long-running insider trading scheme…