{"id":110689,"date":"2025-06-17T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/110689\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:07:16","slug":"shohei-ohtanis-ex-interpreter-ippei-mizuhara-reports-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/110689\/","title":{"rendered":"Shohei Ohtani’s Ex-Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara Reports To Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ippei Mizuhara
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\n Published June 16, 2025 1:44 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Ippei Mizuhara is behind bars — Shohei Ohtani<\/a>‘s former right-hand man and interpreter has surrendered to federal authorities to start his 57-month prison sentence.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to TMZ Sports that 40-year-old Mizuhara reported to the Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood Low facility in Pennsylvania on Monday … hours before the Japanese superstar is slated to make his first pitching start for the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

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Mizuhara was sentenced to 57 months in prison<\/a> this past February for stealing more than $16 million from Ohtani … and was initially ordered to surrender in March, but the date was pushed back at his attorney’s request.<\/p>\n

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The Dodgers fired Mizuhara<\/a> in March 2024 after Ohtani’s attorneys claimed he engaged in a “massive theft” of the World Series champ’s bank accounts. He was accused of taking funds from Ohtani to place bets and pay debts to an illegal bookmaker.<\/p>\n

“He took advantage of his position of trust to take advantage of Mr. Ohtani and fuel a dangerous gambling habit,” United States Attorney Martin Estrada said. “My office is committed to vindicating victims throughout our community and ensuring that wrongdoers face justice.”<\/p>\n

Mizuhara was facing up to 33 years in prison … but ultimately reached an agreement<\/a>, pleading guilty to bank fraud and filing a false tax return.<\/p>\n

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Ohtani addressed the matter at the time … saying, “I’m very saddened and shocked that someone who I trusted has done this.”<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old has denied having any knowledge of Ippei’s gambling activity or the debt he incurred from it — which reached $40 million in the negative.<\/p>\n

We take it the facility doesn’t have MLB TV … so it’s safe to say Ippei’s gonna miss Ohtani’s big night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ippei Mizuhara Reports To Prison Published June 16, 2025 1:44 PM PDT Ippei Mizuhara is behind bars —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,169,185,317,1564],"class_list":{"0":"post-110689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-news","12":"tag-tmz-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114699098171289159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}