Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced on Thursday to four years and nine months in a Southern California prison for stealing $17 million from the baseball phenomenon.
Mizuhara’s sentence by a federal judge is at the bottom of the range recommended by sentencing guidelines but far exceeds the 18 month sentence his lawyer requested. It came after a roughly 90 minute hearing during which Mizuhara spoke an apology before the judge.
“This mistake will impact me for the rest of my life, and I am prepared to suffer the consequences,” Mizuhara said in ...
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