Overview

• U.S. District Judge John W. Holcomb sentenced Mathew Bowyer to 12 months and one day in prison, two years of supervised release, and gambling-addiction counseling, and ordered him to surrender by Oct. 10.
• Bowyer, 50, pleaded guilty to operating an illegal gambling business, money laundering, and filing a false tax return, and he paid $1.6 million in restitution to the IRS before sentencing.
• Federal filings say Bowyer’s operation ran for at least five years in Southern California and Las Vegas with more than 700 bettors, while Ippei Mizuhara placed at least 19,000 bets, losing nearly $41 million.
• Authorities continue to describe Shohei Ohtani as a victim of Mizuhara’s theft; Bowyer has voiced personal belief that Ohtani knew more, but he has offered no evidence and officials have not changed that characterization.
• Mizuhara is serving a 57-month federal sentence for bank and tax fraud after admitting he stole nearly $17 million from Ohtani, and Bowyer’s cooperation helped prosecutors secure convictions in multiple cases.