IMPERSONATING OHTANI
Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, impersonated the MLB superstar on a phone call with a bank in order to swindle the Dodgers' designated hitter out of $200,000 ... newly released audio reveals.
The three-and-a-half minute conversation was put out by federal prosecutors on Thursday, and in it ... you can clearly hear Mizuhara pretending to be Shohei.
In fact, after the bank's phone operator asks Mizuhara straight up "who am I speaking with?