Ippei Mizuhara
Financial institution Name Audio Reveals Ohtani Impersonation
Revealed
Shohei Ohtani‘s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, impersonated the MLB famous person on a telephone name with a financial institution in an effort to swindle the Dodgers’ designated hitter out of $200,000 … newly launched audio reveals.
The three-and-a-half-minute dialog was put out by federal prosecutors on Thursday, and in it … you may clearly hear Mizuhara pretending to be Shohei.
In truth, after the financial institution’s telephone operator asks Mizuhara straight up “Who am I speaking with?,” Ippei says with out hesitation, “Shohei Ohtani.”
In the course of the name, Ippei says he is making an attempt to wire $200,000 to a good friend for a automotive mortgage. The financial institution’s telephone operator makes a number of makes an attempt to make sure it is the actual Ohtani on the opposite line, and Mizuhara appears to move all of her assessments.
He was in a position to find a six-digit code she despatched to a telephone quantity on the account’s file. He was additionally in a position to present realistic-sounding solutions on who was on the receiving finish of the $200K he was making an attempt to wire from Ohtani’s account.
The feds say in all actuality, Mizuhara was taking Ohtani’s funds in an effort to repay playing money owed he had amassed with a bookie.
In complete, the feds say Mizuhara nabbed thousands and thousands from Ohtani all through the years he had labored with him throughout his run with the Angels after which Dodgers.
Mizuhara reduce a cope with prosecutors within the case in June the place he fessed as much as the theft and admitted to tax fraud as nicely. In a court docket submitting Thursday, the feds acknowledged they’re recommending a decide impose a 57-month jail sentence on him for the crimes.
He is due in court docket for a sentencing listening to on Feb. 6.
