{"id":107151,"date":"2024-04-12T05:06:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/alleged-shohei-ohtani-impersonations-more-than-16m-stolen-other-wild-details-emerge-as-ex-interpreter-charged\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T05:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T05:06:37","slug":"alleged-shohei-ohtani-impersonations-more-than-16m-stolen-other-wild-details-emerge-as-ex-interpreter-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/alleged-shohei-ohtani-impersonations-more-than-16m-stolen-other-wild-details-emerge-as-ex-interpreter-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Shohei Ohtani impersonations, more than $16M stolen, other wild details emerge as ex-interpreter charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> Explosive new details have emerged surrounding two-time MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/players\/shohei_ohtani\/544166\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and his former longtime interpreter&#8217;s gambling controversy. <\/p>\n<p> Federal authorities announced in a Los Angeles court on Thursday that Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani&#8217;s ex-interpreter, had been charged with bank fraud. ESPN&#8217;s Alden Gonzalez reported that &#8220;it was discovered [Mizuhara] transferred more than $16M&#8221; from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/los_angeles_dodgers\/15\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> designated hitter&#8217;s account to an &#8220;alleged illegal sports book.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeVorkunov\/status\/1778478937560973415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic<\/a>, bank fraud is a felony offense that can carry a &#8220;statutory maximum sentence of 30 years in federal prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/alleged_shohei_ohtani_impersonations_more_than_16m_stolen_other_wild_details_emerge_as_ex_interpreter_charged\/s1_13132_40224368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explosive new details have emerged surrounding two-time MVP Shohei Ohtani and his former longtime interpreter&#8217;s gambling controversy. Federal authorities announced in a Los Angeles court on Thursday that Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani&#8217;s ex-interpreter, had been charged with bank fraud. ESPN&#8217;s Alden Gonzalez reported that &#8220;it was discovered [Mizuhara] transferred more than $16M&#8221; from the Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}