Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, charged with bank fraud and stealing more than $16M.
Ippei Mizuhara, the longtime former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, has been charged with felony bank fraud after an investigation by federal authorities discovered he transferred more than $16 million out of Ohtani’s bank accounts, prosecutors said on Thursday. Mizuhara used the money “largely to finance his voracious appetite for illegal sports…