Last month, a gambling scandal erupted involving Shohei Ohtani’s then-interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara. At first, Mizuhara claimed that Ohtani covered his losses with an illegal bookmaker, then retracted that statement. For his part, Ohtani said in a news conference a few days after the news initially broke that he had never gambled, and that Mizuhara had stolen the money from him, an amount reported as $4.5 million.
Today, we learned that it was a lot more money, that Mizuhara had indeed stolen it from Ohtani, and that Mizuhara is facing quite a number of federal bank fraud charges:
Federal criminal complaint filed against Ippei Mizuhara.