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The ongoing saga involving nan gambling debts of Shohei Ohtani's erstwhile expert Ippei Mizuhara will beryllium serialized for television.
Mizuhara precocious pled blameworthy to slope fraud and signing a mendacious taxation return that could spot him onshore successful situation for complete 30 years aft stealing $17million from nan Los Angeles Dodgers star.
According to nan Los Angeles Times, Lionsgate Television is moving connected making a scripted bid based connected nan scandal.
This show will beryllium pursuing Ohtani's communicative and his emergence to becoming 1 of nan astir celebrated shot players successful nan world.
But a large information of nan communicative will impact nan infinitesimal he heard nan news that Mizuhara stole tens of millions to salary disconnected gambling debts.
That happened earlier this twelvemonth and nan Dodgers fired him aft proceeding astir nan allegations.
A serialized TV show astir Shohei Ohtani and nan gambling ungraded involving his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, is group to beryllium produced and released done Lionsgate Entertainment
Mizuhara is facing a maximum condemnation of 30 years successful prison. He has been free connected a $25k bond
Mizuhara reportedly wired money to 'Real Housewives of Orange County' prima Ryan Boyajian
Mizuhara is expected to officially participate a blameworthy plea 'in nan coming weeks,' pinch his arraignment scheduled for May 14. The plea statement says Mizuhara will beryllium required to salary Ohtani restitution that could full astir $17M, arsenic good arsenic much than $1M to nan IRS. Those amounts could alteration anterior to sentencing.
Mizuhara's winning bets totaled complete $142M, which he deposited successful his ain slope relationship alternatively than Ohtani's.
However, his losing bets were astir $183M, a nett nonaccomplishment of astir $41M. He did not wager connected baseball.
Mizuhara helped Ohtani unfastened a slope relationship backmost successful 2018 and began stealing money from that relationship successful 2021, according to nan plea agreement. At 1 point, Mizuhara changed nan information protocols, email and telephone number associated pinch it truthful that calls came straight to him, not Ohtani, erstwhile nan backmost was trying to verify ligament transfers. Mizuhara admitted to impersonating Ohtani to nan slope astir 24 times, according to nan agreement.
Mizuhara besides admitted to falsifying his 2022 taxation returns, underreporting his income by much than $4 million.
It was revealed connected Wednesday that Real Housewives prima Ryan Boyajian was an subordinate of bookmaker Mathew Bowyer. Mizuhara would ligament money to Boyajian successful bid to salary disconnected his debts.
