The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series largely due to their preseason addition of generational talent Shohei Ohtani.
A few months after Ohtani put pen to paper on a 10-year, $700 million deal that brought him to the Dodgers, a report came out that his interpreter at the time, Ippei Mizuhara, stole more than $16 million from the MVP.
The United States Department of Justices investigated Mizuhara and alleged he transferred that number over time from Ohtani’s account to an illegal sports book.
As Mizuhara awaits a Feb. 6 sentencing in federal court, his bookmaker spoke for the first time to the New York Post and only further proved the ex-interpreter’s wrongdoing.