14 hours ago · SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for stealing about $17 million from Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani to repay gambling debts ...

12 hours ago · Shohei Ohtani's 2024 season was memorable for several reasons. The most unsavory of those occasions occurred early in the campaign when Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani's longtime friend and interpreter ...

13 hours ago · Mizuhara accessed Ohtani’s account beginning in 2021 and changed its security protocols so he could impersonate him to authorize wire transfers. By 2024, Mizuhara had used the money to buy about ...

13 hours ago · Mizuhara’s theft came before Ohtani’s 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers took effect last year. Yet Ohtani earned around $65 million in salary during his six years ...

1 day ago · Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani expected to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud arrives at federal court, Feb. 6, 2025, in Santa Ana, Calif.

13 hours ago · Mizuhara, who had worked with Ohtani since he signed with the Los Angeles Angels for the 2018 MLB season, was fired a day into the 2024 MLB season after the gambling scandal broke on March 20. The ...

13 hours ago · Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter convicted of stealing nearly $17 million from Shohei Ohtani, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on Thursday, according to The Athletic's Sam Blum.. The ...

21 hours ago · Mizuhara last year pleaded guilty to bank fraud and subscribing to a false tax return, in connection to stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani's bank account. Ippei Mizuhara arrives for his ...

13 hours ago · Mizuhara, they said, accessed one of Ohtani’s bank accounts to pay off a betting debt that reached more than $40.6 million. In audio first obtained by The Athletic in January, ...

14 hours ago · The prosecutors pointed to Mizuhara using the stolen funds to buy baseball cards worth a total of about $325,000, and when the defendant asked Ohtani for financial aid to pay for dental work the ...