Shohei Ohtani asks judge for baseball cards seized from former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara
November 28, 2024
Shohei Ohtani asks judge for baseball cards seized from former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara
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>Shohei Ohtani petitioned a federal judge this week for ownership of $325,000 worth of baseball cards fraudulently purchased by Ippei Mizhura, the former interpreter and confidant who pleaded guilty earlier this year to defrauding Ohtani of nearly $17 million.
>Ohtani, fresh off a World Series win and a National League MVP season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday for a hearing to regain ownership of sports cards authorities seized from Mizuhara.
>Mizuhara pleaded guilty in June to bank and tax fraud after stealing millions from Ohtani. Between January and March of 2024, Mizuhara purchased baseball cards on online resale platforms eBay and Whatnot, intending to resell them. Ohtani wants those items back, arguing they were bought with his money.
>In addition, Ohtani wrote to the court that “a quantity of personally signed collectible baseball cards” with his image were wrongly in Mizuhara’s possession when they were seized, and he seeks their return as well.
>Mizuhara stole from Ohtani via unauthorized access to his bank account. The Dodgers fired Mizhuara in March. Mizhura’s sentencing is set for Dec. 20.
>In court filings, Mizuhara’s forfeited items are described as “collectible sports cards found in silver and black Panopply case; collectible sports cards found in gray Panopply case; box containing collectible sports cards; card wrap device; and plastic card protectors holders.”
Did Aaron Judge buy them off Ippei or something?
I was trying to figure out how Aaron got possession of the cards.
cause hes a big guy and hes good with knots!
Pretty sure those are evidence for a while my guy. Took years to get back half the stuff they took when executing a search warrant… never mind.
This whole debacle is still so fishy
Can I defer it for 30 years?
Sho doesn’t care about the money, there was a rare Miles Mastrobuoni rookie card in there
I bet it’s the WBC final out card he signed with Trout he wants back. That crook Ippei keeps trying to get his sentencing pushed back. It’s baffling that a guy who stole 17 million dollars gets to stay out of jail until the sentencing!
Man I still can’t believe that Ippei was apparently not even a good translator and was just “faking it till he was making it”
I get they just played in the WS, but why would Judge have them?
The Topps buyback is wild this year!
He mainly wanted the one of Karl Yastrzemski with the big sideburns.
So my girlfriend got me into the Real Housewives franchise of tv shows and basically every other show Bravo puts out.
Anyway, Real Housewives of Orange County recently wrapped for the season. One of the women is named Jenn and last year she had a new boyfriend that people thought was kinda sketchy. Rich dude, couldn’t explain super well what he did for a living, doesn’t really work anymore but somehow takes tons of Vegas trips and is involved with gambling and bookies, etc.
Very long story short, it’s about two seasons into this dude Ryan being a side character on the show and during a dinner argument another housewife starts alluding to him being a criminal and tells his girlfriend Jenn to ask him about the FBI and the Dodgers player.
At this same dinner party, Ryan has a buddy there who is seen making a joke calling him his “money launderer.” It ends up coming out at the end of the season/the reunion that the friend at the party was the bookie who Ippei was betting through. These two guys had been to Vegas 30-40 times on jets over a couple years, etc. so it was obvious tons of money was being funneled through.
Apparently the boyfriend Ryan possibly allowed all these Ippei bets to be put into an account under his name and he flipped on his friend and got full immunity. I believe his friend’s name was Matt or something, ended up getting over a decade in prison.
I know this is probably confusing and badly written but I just wanted to share this random cross over between this asshole Ippei, the Dodgers and my new Real Housewives fandom.
I thought this was about Arson for a second haha
Sho, your ownership of those cards is merely deferred. Get with the times.
Wonder what bet Ohtani lost them on?
Ohtani belongs in prison with him. Inside job
not even law enforcement could recover the holofoils they’re long gone
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>Shohei Ohtani petitioned a federal judge this week for ownership of $325,000 worth of baseball cards fraudulently purchased by Ippei Mizhura, the former interpreter and confidant who pleaded guilty earlier this year to defrauding Ohtani of nearly $17 million.
>Ohtani, fresh off a World Series win and a National League MVP season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, asked the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Tuesday for a hearing to regain ownership of sports cards authorities seized from Mizuhara.
>Mizuhara pleaded guilty in June to bank and tax fraud after stealing millions from Ohtani. Between January and March of 2024, Mizuhara purchased baseball cards on online resale platforms eBay and Whatnot, intending to resell them. Ohtani wants those items back, arguing they were bought with his money.
>In addition, Ohtani wrote to the court that “a quantity of personally signed collectible baseball cards” with his image were wrongly in Mizuhara’s possession when they were seized, and he seeks their return as well.
>Mizuhara stole from Ohtani via unauthorized access to his bank account. The Dodgers fired Mizhuara in March. Mizhura’s sentencing is set for Dec. 20.
>In court filings, Mizuhara’s forfeited items are described as “collectible sports cards found in silver and black Panopply case; collectible sports cards found in gray Panopply case; box containing collectible sports cards; card wrap device; and plastic card protectors holders.”
Did Aaron Judge buy them off Ippei or something?
I was trying to figure out how Aaron got possession of the cards.
cause hes a big guy and hes good with knots!
Pretty sure those are evidence for a while my guy. Took years to get back half the stuff they took when executing a search warrant… never mind.
This whole debacle is still so fishy
Can I defer it for 30 years?
Sho doesn’t care about the money, there was a rare Miles Mastrobuoni rookie card in there
I bet it’s the WBC final out card he signed with Trout he wants back. That crook Ippei keeps trying to get his sentencing pushed back. It’s baffling that a guy who stole 17 million dollars gets to stay out of jail until the sentencing!
Man I still can’t believe that Ippei was apparently not even a good translator and was just “faking it till he was making it”
I get they just played in the WS, but why would Judge have them?
The Topps buyback is wild this year!
He mainly wanted the one of Karl Yastrzemski with the big sideburns.
So my girlfriend got me into the Real Housewives franchise of tv shows and basically every other show Bravo puts out.
Anyway, Real Housewives of Orange County recently wrapped for the season. One of the women is named Jenn and last year she had a new boyfriend that people thought was kinda sketchy. Rich dude, couldn’t explain super well what he did for a living, doesn’t really work anymore but somehow takes tons of Vegas trips and is involved with gambling and bookies, etc.
Very long story short, it’s about two seasons into this dude Ryan being a side character on the show and during a dinner argument another housewife starts alluding to him being a criminal and tells his girlfriend Jenn to ask him about the FBI and the Dodgers player.
At this same dinner party, Ryan has a buddy there who is seen making a joke calling him his “money launderer.” It ends up coming out at the end of the season/the reunion that the friend at the party was the bookie who Ippei was betting through. These two guys had been to Vegas 30-40 times on jets over a couple years, etc. so it was obvious tons of money was being funneled through.
Apparently the boyfriend Ryan possibly allowed all these Ippei bets to be put into an account under his name and he flipped on his friend and got full immunity. I believe his friend’s name was Matt or something, ended up getting over a decade in prison.
I know this is probably confusing and badly written but I just wanted to share this random cross over between this asshole Ippei, the Dodgers and my new Real Housewives fandom.
I thought this was about Arson for a second haha
Sho, your ownership of those cards is merely deferred. Get with the times.
Wonder what bet Ohtani lost them on?
Ohtani belongs in prison with him. Inside job
not even law enforcement could recover the holofoils they’re long gone