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Tisha ThompsonJun 16, 2025, 03:36 PM ET
Tisha Thompson is an investigative newsman for ESPN based successful Washington, D.C. Her enactment appears connected each platforms, some domestically and internationally.
Ippei Mizuhara, the disgraced erstwhile interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, is successful national situation successful Pennsylvania, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told ESPN Monday.
Mizuhara, 40, was ordered to surrender to national authorities by Monday. He is successful custody astatine Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood Low, a low-security facility, aft being sentenced to 57 months successful situation for stealing astir $17 cardinal from Ohtani.
Mizuhara was initially ordered to study to situation successful March, but a national justice granted the delay. The reasons for the hold stay nether seal.
Mizuhara's lawyer declined ESPN's petition for comment, but antecedently stated that helium expects Mizuhara, a Japanese citizen, to yet beryllium deported.
The Dodgers fired Mizuhara successful March 2024 aft an ESPN investigation revealed helium sent millions successful ligament transfers from Ohtani's relationship to an amerciable bookmaker. He pleaded blameworthy to slope fraud and filing a mendacious taxation instrumentality successful June 2024, admitting that helium placed astir 19,000 bets with the bookie implicit a two-year play and accumulated implicit $40 cardinal successful debt.
The bookmaker, Mathew Bowyer, pleaded blameworthy successful August to moving an amerciable gambling business, wealth laundering and subscribing a mendacious taxation return. He is awaiting sentencing.
