{"id":483873,"date":"2024-06-05T03:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483873"},"modified":"2024-06-05T02:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T06:56:25","slug":"ohtanis-ex-interpreter-pleads-guilty-for-financial-fraud","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ohtanis-ex-interpreter-pleads-guilty-for-financial-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohtani&#8217;s ex-interpreter pleads guilty for financial fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani&#8217;s bank account to pay off his gambling debts, according to U.S. prosecutors. Mizuhara, who previously served as the translator and also manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; power-hitting pitcher, entered the plea agreement last month.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada commented on the case, highlighting the depth and extent of Mizuhara&#8217;s fraud. The plea deal includes one count of felony bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return. Mizuhara, 39, faces a statutory maximum sentence of 30 years in prison for the bank fraud conviction and up to three years for the tax offense.<\/p>\n<p>Ohtani expressed gratitude to the authorities for their thorough investigation in a written statement. He remarked, &#8220;It&#8217;s time to close this chapter, move on and continue to focus on playing and winning ball games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s former interpreter pleaded guilty to federal charges, admitting he stole nearly $17 million from Ohtani to pay off illegal gambling debts. This comes as Major League Baseball cracks down on gambling, with a Padres player receiving a lifetime ban. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ELew64lfYi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ELew64lfYi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSEveningNews\/status\/1798136592390828409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani&#8217;s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani&#8217;s bank account to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483874,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17254],"news_category":[16708,14084],"gn_keywords":[18481],"acf":{"announce":"\"It's time to close this chapter\", baseball star wrote after the verdict","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483875,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483873\/revisions\/483875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483873"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483873"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}