Phil Mickelson is surrounded by controversy<\/a>, but not for his golf game but friendship with notorious sports gambler Billy Walters.<\/p>\nMickelson, who is at 20-1 at the SuperBook for the Masters, might be called to testify in Walters’ federal conspiracy and securities fraud trail.<\/p>\n
The three-time green jacket winner got himself involved in a world of mess when he accepted a stock tip from Walters in 2012. Mickelson made $931,000 on the investment, but later returned the money after learning of the US government’s investigation into Walters.<\/p>\n
Mickelson has denied any wrongdoing, and Walters’ defense team is arguing that supplying a famous athlete with insider trading information doesn’t make much sense.<\/p>\n
“If you’re Billy Walters and somebody’s giving you inside information, the last thing you would do is give it to Phil Mickelson, one of the most famous athletes in the world,” attorney Barry Berke told the court this week.<\/strong><\/p>\nWalters has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tiger Woods hopes to be in Augusta, Georgia, early next month for golf’s first major of the year. But regardless of whether he’s able to recover from an ongoing back injury, oddsmakers in Las Vegas give the 14-time major winner slim chances of taking\u00a0the coveted green jacket. The Westgate SuperBook puts the golfing great at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":47144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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