A prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday that the government has the goods on professional sports gambler William “Billy” Walters for insider trading.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara, in his opening statement at Walters’ trial before Southern District Judge P. Kevin Castel, said there is ample evidence that Walters traded on inside information on Dean Foods from the company’s former board chairman, Thomas Davis, now a government cooperator.

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