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Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani will face the media on Monday to address the gambling controversy swirling around his friend and former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara.Lawyers representing Ohtani claim that Mizuhara racked up $4.5 million in illegal gambling debts and then stole money from Ohtani to pay them off.of his gambling excesses began to take shape. Specifically, the Mizuhara is accused of betting on sports games other than baseball with a bookie named Matthew Bowyer.
Ippei Mizuhara, the translator for Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Angels, stands in the dugout during the game against the Baltimore Orioles at Angel Stadium of Anaheim on April 22, 2022, in Anaheim, California. Mizuhara initially admitted to placing bets on sports other than baseball but claimed he did not know the bets were illegal. Next, Mizuhara said that Ohtani wired him the money to cover the $4.5 million in gambling debts he had run up.
Speculation about Ohtani’s involvement in the controversy has run rampant, given what appears to be some troubling inconsistencies in the sequence of events. Chiefly, people want to know how Ohtani could not notice $4.5 million missing from his account. Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, many want to know why a representative for Ohtani set up a lengthy interview for Mizuhara last Tuesday in which the former translator claimed that Ohtani was knowingly paying off his gambling debts.
This picture taken on March 16, 2024, shows Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara attending a press conference at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul ahead of the 2024 MLB Seoul Series baseball game between Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. Other discrepancies have emerged about Mizuhara’s background. In his bio, he claims to have served as an interpreter for Hideki Okajima when he played for the Boston Red Sox in 2010 and claims to have studied at the University of California-Riverside. However, UC Riverside says he never attended their school, and the Red Sox claim Mizuhara never worked as Okajima’s interpreter while in Boston.“I think it’s the right thing to do,” Roberts said.
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