Ippei Mizuhara admitted to quietly siphoning off millions of dollars from the baseball superstar to pay off lost wagers.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani is set to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud ...

Ippei Mizuhara pleaded guilty last year to one count of bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return.

Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Santa Ana with prosecutors ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the former Japanese interpreter who pleaded guilty to stealing from Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to cover ...

Federal prosecutors said Thursday that there was no evidence Ippei Mizuhara, the ex-interpreter of Shohei Ohtani, suffered ...

Federal prosecutors said no evidence backs up Ippei Mizuhara's claims that he suffered from a gambling addiction, which led ...

Federal prosecutors have now disputed claims that Ippei Mizuhara stole from Shohei Ohtani to pay back his gambling debts.

The former interpreter for MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani wasn’t battling a gambling addiction when he stole $17 million from ...

Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, faces nearly five years in prison after admitting to stealing $17 million from the star athlete to cover his gambling losses. Mizuhara exploited his ...

In April 2024, Mizuhara was charged with stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani, most of which was transferred directly from ...