Super-cut: Ippei Mizuhara Charged with Stealing $16 Million (All Coverage)
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2024
- In this video: a super-cut of all of our April 11, 2024 coverage of the news that Ippei Mizuhara has been charged with stealing over 16 million dollars from Shohei Ohtani in connection with sports betting. Mizuhara reportedly could face decades in prison for the alleged offenses.
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Ohtani is completely a victim here. Some haters still suspect Ohtani’s involvement or his knowledge of Ippei’s addiction but no frauds will let their victims know their struggles or the reasons why they are stealing from them.
Ohtani’s endorsement earnings were deposited to another account. The account Ippei was stealing from was for MLB earnings and the court documents said Ippei didn’t allow the financial advisors to check the account and Ohtani never cared to logged in to check it for years.
I don’t get people, they bitch and complain “we need to know what happened”, “how did he not know”, etc. The 37 page Federal Investigation details everything and people still asking the same ass questions. “How did he not know”, “Who allowed access to his account”, etc.
The banks have recording of his voice impersonating Ohtani giving the bank confidential information to bypass security checks while processing banking transactions.
There are texts messages to Bowyer where he admits to him that he was in fact stealing from Ohtani.
Some people are stupid. They think because they know where there couple of thousands of dollars are at all time in their checking account that same principle applies to someone who hires people to take care of the affairs in their lives.
Billy Joel had 90 million stolen from his brother in law and never knew until it was too late.
There are still people that believe that the earth is flat too.
Exactly
The Ohtani-haters can't be bothered to read the 37 page document. They'll just read a short summary then complain about specifics. Specifics that are in the document they refuse to read. They're just clowns right now. 🤡
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Ohtani has been quoted multiple times that he doesn’t care about money. If he had waited for two more years before coming to the U.S., he would have received Yamamoto type of money before even having a single AB or pitch in the MLB. All reports indicate Ohtani is singularly motivated to become the best baseball player who ever lived.
Another side of this story is that Ohtani not only trusted Mizuhara but also relied on his service for day-to-day operations in the U.S. at least initially. The bank account that Mizuhara stole from is actually the one that he helped Ohtani open to receive his salary from Angels. Ohtani has known Mizuhara since 2013 when Ohtani was 18, and Mizuhara became his de facto manager in 2018 when Ohtani asked him to come to the U.S. with him to be his translator. When Ohtani won the AL ROY that year, Ohtani mentioned Mizuhara as someone he owed his gratitude most. Even for Ohtani, losing $16M must hurt, but the sense of betrayal probably hurts more.
The FBI, IRS, and Homeland Security say the following:
-Ippei was Ohtani's de-facto manager
-Ippei gained access to Ohtani's accounts by identity fraud
-Ippei started sports betting through an illegal bookie
-Ippei starts making wire transfers through one of Ohtani's accounts
-Ippei deposits winnings into his account
-Accountants ask Ippei for Ohtani's account information regarding this account
-Ippei told his accountant Ohtani wanted to keep that specific account private
-The Bookmakers gets caught by the Feds and investigation ensues
-Ohtani did not bet on games
-Ohanti did not know about Ippei betting
-Ohtani did not make any illegal wire transfers
-Ohtani did not know the money was missing
-No text messages from Ohtani to Ippei about betting
-None of the bets were on baseball
"Ohtani is guilty, Ippei is the fall guy"- People who didn't listen to the statement or read the affidavit.
Two things they need to understand:
1. An illegal bookie cant report anyone because hell get in trouble.
2. Ohtani was in a contract year, hitting and pitching at an ELITE level, had millions in the bank already and was projected to get a contract to set his great grandkids up for life. He was not checking his bank to see if he was missing money.
Ohtani was too young and too focused on baseball and he just never had a read on what was going on outside of that. It happens. He'll be fine
OMG these people... "Whatever", "I don't care" and "Still" are NOT argument points. A Federal investigation was made yet "I don't care" is still the argument?!
Former major leaguer Tsuyoshi Shinjo had $13 million stolen. Since he did not have as much wealth as Otani, he returned to the Japanese baseball league as a player to earn money.
Why is it hard to believe for some people that a guy who has been about baseball all his life and trusted people around him to handle everything else, would not see the need to focus on his financial situation especially knowing he’d have more than he’d ever need. Not to mention Ippei was a friend and would have absolutely blown smoke up Shohei’s ass if ever asked. Also, the people throwing stones likely can’t handle their own finances, pay crazy interest rates on credit cards, etc. Some people…most…just don’t handle money well or care to learn how to manage it. And Ohtani had people doing that for him as he focused on ⚾️.
I feel like the initial commentary at 4:11 sounds like 3 guys trying to justify their doubts despite the fact that a team of federal investigators looked through everything and concluded that Ohtani is the victim in this situation. Like, do you understand what it would mean if DHS, IRS, and FBI all were in on a conspiracy? That's a far wilder take than "Ippei abused his position and committed bank fraud by stealing money from Shohei".
Stop witch hunting Otani. He is a victim.
"Victim." The man is gonna make 700 million dollars. This doesn't include promotions and brand deals. Yep, he's a total "victim."
There is no way he didn’t know what was going on.
You say that as if you've secretly uncovered all the facts. Don't be hasty little one.
@@mikeburgoyne9133 You either are not literate enough to read the whole criminal complaint or think yourself smarter than the federal law enforcement investigators who filed the complaint. If latter is the case, you are perfectly welcome to try your hardest to prove them wrong. But until then, it has been determined SHOHEI IS INNOCENT.
They act like he took the money all at once, it happened over years, the amount of transactions that are going on in his account, very reasonable to think that someone who probably has hundreds of millions of dollars doesn’t notice 300-500,000 bucks every few months
Ohtani's parents had been transferring money to his account since he was in Japan, but he never looked at it, and when he was with the Angels, he turned down invitations to party and gamble in order to train. He has also been known to sleep 10 hours a day to concentrate on baseball.
The fact that he never looked at his accounts at all is something he needs to improve on in the future. But Ippei is terrible for taking advantage of such a baseball-loving man and cheating him.
Why do Americans and the American media criticize Otani so much, but do not apologize to him when the facts are known? Is it a sense of discrimination against Asians and Japanese?
I was on a jury involving embezzlement. It was several million over several years. They never had a clue. It was one of the payment processors that finally notified them about irregularities. Ohtani is his own brand & business, (which he has no involvement in since he obviously doesn't care about money) so there's a constant flow of funds going in & out of multiple accounts. It's too much for him to monitor, but he should have somebody doing that for him.
I agree, but saying Ohtani doesn’t care about money is wild. Being inept to handle your own finances is not synonymous with not caring about money. If he did t care about money at all he wouldn’t waste his time doing $50m a year from endorsement deals
I remember hearing during an Angels broadcast about how much he only cares about baseball to a psychopathic level, and how he let his team take care of everything else for him, it adds up now
Agree
@@Realdrlipschitz "why would he waste his time doing endorsement deals if he doesn't care about money?"
We don't know what else was attached to those deals (or we don't know off the top of our heads). Maybe the company offered an equal amount as a charitable contribution to children's athletics? Ohtani just donated a couple of baseball gloves to every low-income school in Japan, it seems he really cares about that.
Or maybe the team told him, "Hey, you're doing this as part of our contract".
It's easy to read between the lines, but in the absence of context or other facts we're just speculating.
@@MMuraseofSandvich okay, but you can’t base your argument on “maybe’s”. That wasn’t the point of my statement anyway; my point concerning his finances is ineptitude ≠ apathy.
Basically everything Ippei own was bought with Shohei's money. I can't imagine what the wife was going through. I'm sure she is seeking a divorce as we speak.
It was completely obvious to me at the start that Ohtani didn’t have the personality of a gambler and Mizuhara did. Am I a particularly good judge of character or are so many people just such bad judges of character?
Just need to see the history of his life from Nippon Ham and even with LAA, where he never would go out for drink with the boys. Yet alone join them for poker nights how many time they tried to bring him along. He doesn’t drink nor gamble. He never went out in NY (people were shocked) he said he was in his hotel room. Taking bath and went to sleep.💤
Ken do you really believe what you are saying??? Why report lies?
They are all mad that they don’t have free content that they can make money on
good insight
I am so sick of this Ohtani drama. Like my son days time to get over it. Well I'm over it. Let's get back to the games
we need to reevaluate how teams set up foreign players
Dude had account access to the wealthiest athlete on paper right now and he chose to gamble it instead of being smart about it he didn’t need to gamble he already hit the jackpot.
Does anyone know if he was picked by Ohtani at the start of his Angels tenure or was he already employed/ put in place by the Angels when he was about to come over to America??
I see this as a strange time to release a super-cut video of all the things said before the indictment came out. Everyone involved was speaking without any specific knowledge. I can't wait for tomorrow shows when they all have a better understanding of what and how.
The wife is definitely checking his junk 😂😂😂
I don't know if Shohei knew or not, I have no clue who he is. But people do get scammed by people they trust all the time. You have some that trust until there is a reason to mistrust and with others, you have to earn their trust. It could also just be someone who doesn't sit look at his bank accounts and I would assume because he is still rather young & doesn't have a concern for money, he probably leaves it to an accountant to handle his finances, until a matter is brought to his attention. A talented player of our era can still be naive too.
How sad haters and doubters will say "if" what the US attorney and IRS said was true, despite their investigation report. Let's hope these haters and doubters don't get betrayed then have ppl question them even after evidence show their innocent!
We Gen xers call a video like this a rerun. lol
Kutos to Elly De La Cruz learning the English language well enough to dismiss his interpreter. This may come in handy if his career develops
Yeah, so what about all these haters who tells Ohtani to learn English but can’t read a 37 page report in English??
The strange thing is even if Mizuhara changed all setting but how come Shohei’s accountant didnt notice the large sum of money transfer in numerous times. Strange.
There was news that said Mizuhara told the accountant that Shohei wants the account to be accessible only by Shohei. The accountant did not speak Japanese so what could the account do to verify with Shohei
@@lutherjr2646I saw that on Japanese tv show too. So the Shohei team supposed to trust Mizuhara when they found something odds with his bank accounts. Why not talk to Shohei directly. I think Shohei can understand simple English. Those Shohei team failed big time.
@@Hoppetakeyama I believe Shohei and Mizuhara came to the US 6 years ago, and back then Shohei must have Zero English skills. Mizuhara was already like a brother to Shohei, so as the FED investigator mentioned in the press conference, Mizuhara set up the bank account with password, biography questions, etc. Probably at that time Mizuhara must have told the accountant that Shohei wanted the account to be accessible only by Shohei.
I agree with you regarding the Dodgers staff. Especially the Crisis Manager and Shohei’s representative. When they got the first call from the ESPN lady, I suspect the rep contacted the crisis manager then they must have contacted Mizuhara as they normally do. Then Mizuhara must have told them the first story he told to ESPN and they must have totally believed it. But thing is this Crisis Manager did not see what could happen in the situation that Shohei’s name came up in FBI investigation on Sports Betting but he chose not to check with Shohei in person. The rep must have relied on the crisis manager for the situation, but if a crisis manager does not see a warning sign in this situation, he is not fit to the job. With the incident how the Dodger staff treated the lady who caught the Shohei’s first homer ball, I think Dodger staff need an overhaul.
Some strange stuff. Shady. Ohtani was very close with his "interpreter".
Hope the money is worth taking the fall. 🤔
Taking a fall? Paying debt with Ohtanis money and deposited winnings in his own account? Yeah he was taking the fall 😂
Im thinking like AJ P...It sounds so simple. Just call in and change the settings on his bank account 🤔 just like that, huh?🤷🏾♂️ this will always seem sus would like to know more.
Ohtani literally does not care about money that much; considering he left his finances during his NPB days to his mother (giving him an allowance of only $2,000 a month, even though he was the highest paid player in the team), refusing to move out of his Japanese minor league dorm, even though he had more than enough to move out, gave up what was worth $200,000,000+ to join MLB two years earlier than his posting date, deferred his $700,000,000 contract, and gave some of his incentives money to the Angels staff during his Angels tenure. Plus, Ohtani knew and trusted Ippei since Ohtani was only 18 years old, so it’s not surprising that Ohtani would rely and trust on Ippei to open his first ever US bank account. Ippei even helped Ohtani get his drivers license, from teaching to going through the DMV process - as a foreigner. Also, this was during a time when Ohtani was still recovering from Tommy John and just cared about rehabbing and adjusting to MLB. Ohtani likely doesn’t care money was stolen from him, but rather he cared because he found out who did it to him.
Sure you can argue that Ohtani can just call in and change the settings. In the document, however, Ippei was managing that account for Ohtani and Ohtani didn’t suspect any ill intentions from Ippei. Leading to Ippei to have absolute control over that account. Even citing that one of Ohtani’s accounting representatives asked about the account in question (the one Ippei managed and gambled); to which Ippei lied and said the account is private. Also, the phone number and other billing details went to Ippei, yet Ohtani’s name was on it. Even going far as to impersonate Ohtani to deposit/wire money to Ippei’s personal account. This is similar to a former Japanese MLB player who had to go back to NPB, because his interpreter stole millions off his account, and went to NPB after free agency - due to literally becoming broke.
Hope this gave you some context at least. Sorry for the long blocks of text. 😂
This is an account Ohtani opened in hurry upon arriving 2018, to register a salary account. Details of mail and mobile wasn’t updated so could be added later meanwhile Ippei took care of all to handle if neccesary.
Then this account was never used by Ohtani though salary and some income were deposited regularly.
Subsequently, the agency opened accounts for Shohei’s for his diverse disbursements, representation, expenses etc monitored by finance staff and Shohei was connected to those accounts. While the first account, Shohei’s never used (only kept accumulated salary and certain other incomes) still the income was more frequent and more than Ippei withdrew so the balance was always increasing.
And it wasn’t used. Just parked there.
AJ doesn’t have good character as seen in his playing days. He couldn’t possibly understand someone with the integrity of ohtani
@@Kjp90 sure bot
@@bfunk9572 sorry, truth hurts sometimes