Mickelson Cleared of Insider Trading According to New York Times' Report


According to a New York Times report published Wednesday night, Phil Mickelson has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal insider-trading probe involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn and sports gambler Billy Walters of Las Vegas.

Initial reports last month indicated that Mickelson and Walters received favorable details about Icahn's pending takeover of Clorox in 2011, which led the two to receive millions of dollars in profits. But The Times reported that Mickelson did not trade shares of Clorox in 2011.

When asked after his first round at the U.S. Open Thursday - in which he shot an even-par 70 - about The Times' report, Mickelson said he hadn't read it and heard "not really anything" from his legal representatives.

"I just got off the golf course," he added. "But I'll continue to say, I haven't done anything wrong. And if there's - I'm willing to help out, love to help out any way on the investigation.

"So, like I said before, with an investigation going on, I'm not going to comment any further on it. But I'll continue to say that I've done absolutely nothing wrong."

The New York Times also indicated that federal investigators are still examining Mickelson's trading in Dean Foods, though Icahn never had anything to do with that stock.