Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and three years' supervised release for bank and tax ...

Former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani sentenced to prison for bank and tax fraud after stealing $17 million from player's ...

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

The former interpreter for Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution Thursday for bank and tax fraud in the theft of nearly $17 ...

Ohtani's former interpreter pretended to be the baseball player in some phone calls where he asked for large amounts of money from the bank to make illegal bets. The Los Angeles court found Ippei ...

The ex-interpreter blamed a long-standing addiction ... in 2024 after he had already stolen millions of dollars from Ohtani, according to the filing. The investigation also showed Mizuhara placing ...

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 ...

“I felt pretty good about the off-season. I've been throwing,” Ohtani said through his interpreter. “I actually started swinging the bat with pretty good intensity. Like actually just before ...

Federal prosecutors disputed claims by Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter that he stole from the slugger to pay back massive gambling debts, saying there was no evidence he suffered from a ...

“The offseason was short. It actually felt short as well,” Ohtani said through interpreter Will Ireton. “And obviously, with the surgery, it was even shorter.” On the hitting side, the Dodgers remain ...