William T. “Billy” Walters Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Insider Trading

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced the arrest of WILLIAM T. WALTERS, a/k/a “Billy,” on charges of participating in a scheme, from in or about 2008 through in or about 2014, to commit insider trading principally relating to securities of Dean Foods Company (“Dean Foods” or the “Company”). In addition, Mr. Bharara announced the unsealing of charges against THOMAS C. DAVIS, who pled guilty and admitted to his participation in the scheme earlier this week. On a number of occasions beginning in 2008, DAVIS, who routinely possessed material, nonpublic information through his service on the Dean Foods’ Board of Directors, betrayed his duty of confidentiality to the Company by providing this information to WALTERS before it was publicly announced. As alleged in the charging documents, WALTERS, in turn, used the confidential information to execute profitable trades in Dean Foods that netted him realized and unrealized gains and avoided losses of more than $40 million. In exchange, WALTERS provided DAVIS with substantial pecuniary benefits, including, among other things, capital for joint business ventures and two loans of nearly $1 million that DAVIS largely did not repay.