Baseball star Ohtani’s ex-interpreter sentenced to nearly 5 years in sports betting case

This guys just keeps getting uglier and uglier.

This guys just keeps getting uglier and uglier.

Maybe that's part of his strategy to ensure he doesn't draw too much romantic interest when he takes up residence in his new digs?

I wonder what would happen if he stole the same amount from the Government, or a bank.

He should have committed this crime in Japan, he’d be out on a suspended sentence right now.

5 years in prison is nothing, he will take it and make another 20 million when he sells the movie rights.

RE; Mizuhara has acknowledged using the money to cover his growing gambling bets and debts with an illegal bookmaker, in addition to $325,000 worth of baseball cards and his own dental bills.

What I don't understand is how the gambling mob can keep the money.

Haven't they received stolen goods?

Shouldn't those stolen goods be returned to the owner?

...he stole nearly $17 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers player’s bank account.

Mizuhara has acknowledged using the money to cover his growing gambling bets and debts with an illegal bookmaker...

It makes that incident from a few days ago, where gambler stole３万円 from a conbini due to his gambling debts, seem rather small by comparison.

He should have committed this crime in Japan, he’d be out on a suspended sentence right now.

And presenting a wide show.

What the man looks like is surely off-topic?

Partner breakups can be hard

Stewart Gale: "He should have committed this crime in Japan, he’d be out on a suspended sentence right now."

If he were a politician, celebrity, or CEO (or all three), I'd agree, but he DID commit this heinous act against Shohei Ohtani, so he might have actually gotten the death penalty here.

He should have committed this crime in Japan, he’d be out on a suspended sentence right now.

Definitely true. There would have been a "Gomennasai bow" with apology, but probably no sentence. Different culture. I hope he likes prison in the US. I'm sure from there, get deported back to Japan since he is a Permanent Resident.

Call he jaded, yet a part of me still finds it hard to believe that Otani didnt know anything at all about his financial situation. It seems like everyone is bending backwards to make sure that Otani was in ignorant bliss about his so-called "friend" literally robbing his arse off. It's almost to the point that it makes Otani come across as a naive kid.

He had to have had his head in the clouds, or the sand, when it came to his finances.

I hope his wife is like a "typical" Japanese wife, and handles all his finances from now on!

Call me.... sorry about that, "fat finger Friday"

Going to be a long five years jail in the US would be way worse than Japan whos ya daddy now…

The world's worst gambler claims to have lost $17 million of Ohtani's money. Pull the other one. He probably has a stash in a Swiss bank account that he can use when he gets out.

Lol, if this was in Japan, the court date won't be till years away, and he'd still be in detention

Othani will.get penny on thousands dollars, people still more than and do not have the means to pay it off

if he was a banker or wall street trader, he’d be a white house advisor now after being pardoned.

his sentence was really 2 years, with 3 years added for the haircut.

if allowed he can do his 5 years in prison and spend the three years of probation writing a made for tv story about how this all came about ending with his prison sentence and him basking in the sun from all the people going to buy the book to read the story and then ticket sales from the movie. With all the money he makes he can pay restitution and still live like a king. It’s a made for movie story and people in Japan would buy it.

I'm not a gambler, so maybe I don't know the intricacies of it, but I cannot imagine someone constantly betting and always losing! The laws of probability just don't match. Also, the amount of money and the number of bets were so huge for such a short period of time, all of these things complicate the story. I am not saying Ohtani had anything to do with it, but it kind of defies belief.

Ippei has done some really bad things, but to do time in a maximum security prison in the U.S. would be like going to hell. 5 years is actually pretty light for what he's done. I know somebody who did far more time for stealing much less, so I suppose the California judge was being merciful in his/her sentence.

What I don't understand is how the gambling mob can keep the money.

Haven't they received stolen goods?

Shouldn't those stolen goods be returned to the owner?

That would be a separate prosecution but a prosecutor would have to be able to prove criminal intent on the part of the gambling enterprises. Considering the deceptions Mr. Mizuhara used that would be very hard to prove. They could argue there was no way for them to know the money was stolen so a criminal case is probably not going to happen. A civil suit would probably be more productive in terms of gaining back the lost money.

I'm not a gambler, so maybe I don't know the intricacies of it, but I cannot imagine someone constantly betting and always losing! 

In nearly all cases the odds favor the house. Gambling establishments exist to make money and the have mathematicians who ensure the odds always favor the house so their operation is profitable. A sensible gambler goes in knowing the likelihood of winning is very low, sets a spending limit and stops gambling when / if the limit is reached.