Overview

• Ippei Mizuhara reported to Federal Correctional Institution Allenwood Low in Pennsylvania on Monday to begin a 57-month sentence.
• His term follows a February conviction on bank fraud and false tax return charges after he admitted placing about 19,000 bets using funds misappropriated from Ohtani’s accounts.
• A judge ordered him to pay more than $18 million in restitution, allocating nearly $17 million to Ohtani and the remainder to the IRS.
• Shohei Ohtani has maintained he had no knowledge of his interpreter’s gambling activities or the thefts that led to over $40 million in debt.
• Mizuhara’s surrender coincided with Ohtani’s first pitching appearance for the Dodgers since undergoing Tommy John surgery.