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Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani‘s former interpreter, has been sentenced to five years in prison for siphoning millions of dollars from the superstar baseball player, NBC News reported on Thursday. Mizuhara pled guilty last year on fraud charges in one of the biggest gambling scandals in sports history, stealing millions from …

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, has been charged with bank fraud after allegedly stealing $16 million from his former employer. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada announced the federal charge on Thursday. The federal complaint lays out that Mizuhara placed around 19,000 wagers between Dec. …