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. 🤡

'Thumbnail era'

"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.

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.

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.💤

Yeah, so what about all these haters who tells Ohtani to learn English but can’t read a 37 page report in English??

Taking a fall? Paying debt with Ohtanis money and deposited winnings in his own account? Yeah he was taking the fall 😂

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

@@lutherjr2646​​⁠I 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.

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