The Brief. Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced to 57 months for stealing nearly $17 million from Dodgers' star Shohei Ohtani. Mizuhara also agreered to pay more than $18 million in restitution.

Mizuhara also must pay a $1.15 million fine to the Internal Revenue Service, after he failed to report more than $4 million in income — ostensibly thieved from Ohtani — in tax year 2022 and ...

S hohei 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 ...

Ippei Mizuhara allegedly stole millions of Shohei Ohtani’s money. Getty Images. Mizuhara’s winning bets totaled over $142 million, which he deposited in his own bank account and not Ohtani’s.

Not anymore. Mizuhara, 39, was abruptly fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday after representatives of Ohtani accused the interpreter of “massive theft” of the player’s funds — reportedly $4.5 ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani accused of stealing $17 million from the baseball superstar, pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles federal court Tuesday, but his attorney ...

This makes sense. When Ohtani came stateside in 2018, he needed an American bank account. Mizuhara, his interpreter and confidant, helped him set up that account.

Ippei Mizuhara, the former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, agreed to a plea deal that could lead to as many as 33 years in federal prison, prosecutors announced ...

Mizuhara was terminated from his position with the Dodgers on Wednesday after Ohtani’s representatives alleged that he stole at least $4.5 million from the two-way superstar to cover his own ...

Mizuhara’s connection to the gambling world came to light on March 20. In separate interviews with ESPN, Mizuhara told the news outlet that Ohtani paid an estimated $4.5 million to help him with ...

Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in prison and three years’ supervised release for bank and tax ...