Judge Raises Prospect of Hearing on FBI Leaks in Gambler Appeal

Billy Walters

Photographer: Louis Lanzano/Bloomberg

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A federal appeals judge raised the prospect of ordering a hearing to consider the impact FBI leaks had on the insider-trading trial of a Las Vegas gambler.

"Why shouldn’t there be an evidentiary hearing?" Judge Denny Chin asked in Billy Walters’s appeal of his conviction, for which he’s serving five years.