Ippei Mizuhara entered a courtroom in shackles. Shohei Ohtani flew around Chavez Ravine on wings. On the most sobering, sensational of Fridays, one man’s arrest became another man’s freedom, a simple ballgame serving as a striking example of brilliance unburdened. Just down the street from Dodger Stadium, Ohtani’s longtime interpreter and close colleague Mizuhara surrendered to authorities on charges of stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani to supply his gambling addiction. Hours later,...
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LOS ANGELES — Between the Dodgers’ daytime loss on Wednesday in Minneapolis and Friday night’s game at Dodger Stadium came two major steps in jurisprudence in the case of Ippei Mizuhara, the fired former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani. On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office formally charged Mizuhara with bank fraud and detailed his stealing over $16 million from Ohtani over the period of a few years. During the press conference announcing the charges, U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said, “I want...
Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter issued a statement via his attorney, apologizing to Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball.
On March 25, Shohei Ohtani stood before television cameras at Dodger Stadium and said this about his longtime interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara: “Ippei has been stealing money from my account and has told lies.” That same day, according to a federal criminal complaint filed Thursday, Ohtani granted consent for law enforcement officials to search his phone. The 37-page complaint, which charges Mizuhara with bank fraud, provided details that support what Ohtani said publicly. On March 20, after The...
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LOS ANGELES >> Federal authorities allege Ippei Mizuhara, the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, stole more than $16 million from the two-way baseball sensation to cover his gambling debts.
Two weeks after sinking into a murky abyss, the legend of Shohei Ohtani has suddenly come up for air, surfacing powerfully through a thick layer of felonious lies and criminal deceit. It smiles at those who doubted its integrity. It shakes its head at those who questioned its motives. The legend lives. I didn’t quite believe Ohtani recently when he said he knew nothing about an alleged $4.5 million in wire transfers to an illegal bookie. With federal prosecutors announcing Thursday that they...
Texts included in a federal complaint depict Ippei Mizuhara's apparent descent into a sports betting addiction and the bookie who kept extending him credit.
LOS ANGELES >> Federal authorities charged the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani today with federal bank fraud, alleging that he stole more than $16 million from the Japanese sensation to cover gambling bets and debts.