8 hours ago · Mizuhara also admitted in the plea agreement to falsely claiming that his total taxable income for 2022 was $136,865 when, in fact, he failed to report an additional $4.1 million in income.

3 hours ago · Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star Shohei Ohtani, leaves federal court on June 4, 2024, after pleading guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports ...

4 hours ago · Mizuhara was in the Dodgers dugout for that first game before he was fired by the team. Ohtani and the Dodgers went on to win World Serie s seven months later, staging their first victory parade ...

3 hours ago · Prosecutors want Mizuhara to pay close to $17 million in restitution to Ohtani and a little more than $1 million to the IRS. Read more: The mysterious life — and questionable claims — of ...

14 hours ago · Mizuhara had helped Ohtani open the bank account in 2018 when the athlete moved from Japan to the United States to play for the Angels. When he began running up sports gambling debt in 2021, Mizuhara recalled the password and used it to access Ohtani’s account. He took money from the account to pay off his debt and other expenses on various ...

14 hours ago · By 2024, Mizuhara had used the money to buy about $325,000 worth of baseball cards at online resellers and had bet tens of millions of dollars that weren’t his to wager on international soccer, the NBA, the NFL and college football. Prosecutors said Mizuhara never bet on baseball, and Ohtani was an unknowing victim of the scheme.

7 hours ago · What did Mizuhara steal? Mizuhara has acknowledged stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani’s bank account to repay some of the gambling bets and debts he had amassed with an illegal bookmaker.

Jan 24, 2025 · Federal prosecutors say a nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000.

6 days ago · Mizuhara has requested an 18-month prison sentence. He pleaded guilty to bank fraud and filing a false tax return in May, after stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani. He will be formally ...

Apr 13, 2024 · Ippei Mizuhara, left, the then-interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, right, leave a news conference on March 16. Mizuhara was later fired amid allegations of illegal gambling.