Ippei Mizuhara has surrendered to authorities … federal prosecutors simply introduced he turned himself in Friday morning — lower than 24 hours after he was hit with a financial institution fraud cost.
Shohei Ohtani‘s former interpreter is now scheduled to stay in custody till at the very least Friday afternoon … when he is slated to make an look in a Los Angeles courtroom.
In accordance with the feds, Mizuhara isn’t anticipated to make a plea to the choose on the proceedings. It is not but recognized if he’ll be eligible for launch following the listening to.
As we reported, Mizuhara was charged with a felony on Thursday … after U.S. Division of Justice officers alleged he stole round $16 million from an Ohtani checking account to pay for playing money owed he had amassed.
The DOJ stated Mizuhara additionally used a few of Ohtani’s funds to purchase hundreds of {dollars} price of baseball playing cards.
The feds, although, stated throughout their investigation … they discovered nothing that led them to consider Ohtani had data of Mizuhara’s transgressions.
Mizuhara had already been fired by the Dodgers when the allegations got here to gentle late final month. Will Ireton has crammed in in Mizuhara’s stead.
Ohtani, in the meantime, hasn’t appeared to be bothered a lot by the distraction … he is piled up three house runs and a .333 batting common by means of 11 video games.
