A day after signing a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in New York last year, former Dean Foods Co. chairman Tom C. Davis went to Las Vegas to party.
Davis is the governments star witness at the insider-trading trial of gambler Billy Walters. Walterss lawyer, Barry Berke, has spent more than a day grilling Davis, depicting him as a man willing to do anything to win a Get Out of Jail Free card, including lying to get his former friend convicted.
On Thursday Berke questioned Davis about what he did after signing the deal in which he agreed to plead guilty to a dozen separate crimes, including securities fraud, conspiracy and perjury. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to back his request for leniency with his sentencing jud…
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