Ohtani's former interpreter charged with over $16 million bank fraud

The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was charged Thursday with illegally transferring more than $16 million from one of the baseball player's bank accounts, the Justice Department said, describing Ohtani as the victim in the case.It said Ippei Mizuhara, who faces a bank fraud charge, made the transfers from November 2021 to January 2024 "without the player's knowledge or permission" to pay off his gambling debts incurred with an illegal bookmaking operation.Disclosed court documents showed Mizuhara lost some $40 million over the period after making around 19,000…READ FULL ARTICLE