Reacting to Reports Shohei Ohtani's Interpreter Stole Over $16 Million From Ohtani | Le Batard Show
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- Adnan Virk and David Samson join the show to discuss all the details of the Ippei Mizuhara fraud saga with Shohei Ohtani.
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Oh my god! Is this guy for real? Did you even hear what they reported? Ippei is the one who opened the bank account for Ohtani. He assisted Ohtani with the password, knew all of the information of Ohtani, impersonated his voice to pass the verification, told his financial advisor Shohei wanted the account to be private. What more explanation do you need????
David’s ego won’t let him admit he was totally wrong. He is looking more like a fool.
David doesnt leave the house in the morning until he's done praying that Ohtani is guilty of gambling on baseball
He can’t accept the facts
Samson is still hoping for Ohtani to be suspended.
He's really hoping/wanting/wishing Ohtani will be suspended, even if it's not for gambling, but for perhaps for some other lesser offense.
Such racist comments
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.
Eh
The area Ohtani was reckless is TRUST! That is a huge humanitarian problem! We are approaching a point nobody trusts anyone!
Ippei built up trust over 8 years. Ippei didnt steal a dime until he started gambling on sports. I can see how ohtani trusted ippei. The person who stole from ohtani wasnt the same person ohtani knew since 2013. Ippei fell to addiction.
Shohei must be one of the busiest men on the planet. Not only is he constantly training and playing baseball, with all the traveling, interviews, public appearances, making commercials, he is also a husband with a tight family. So, to think Shohei was clueless about what Ippei did behind his back is totally believable.
Just read the 37 pages of the official federal investigation. Ohtani didn’t even have access to his own bank account as the contact information was changed to Ippei’s who falsely identified to the bank as Ohtani. They have the recordings with the banks and every conversation with the between the bookmaker and Mizuhara.. please just get the information openly available or just don’t comment without knowledge.
Calm down, Mrs. Ohtani.
@@BERNARDO712do you know something that the IRS , homeland security, the FBI didn’t know?
I just read 846 pages of War and Peace and it turns out that Ohtani didn’t even know what money was!! He was running around trying to pay people with sea shells and bottle caps!!
I called this from Jump.
@@rynob356 Oh, you are so hilarious, little troll.
Why is so hard for people to believe He didn’t know; that’s literally how fraud works. fraud requires deception and when someone has all the required personal information the deception becomes easier
Because
Yeah. Tim Duncan had $25 million stolen from him.
Dane Cook was embezzled by his own brother out of $12 million dollars over a period of 10 years. Dane Cook said he didn't pay much attention to his accounts and the only way it was caught was that he hired a new manager, and the new manager found out about the crime. For Dane Cook, it was not about English or interpretation, it was about trusting someone too much. Wealthy people are often too busy and delegate things to others.
David is super biased😂
Why would he have any bias???
@@mattkhanna He not biased just an Ohtani hater! You don't follow David obviously! lol
@@jazminharris1923 nothing personal everyday dude.
@@mattkhanna That's even worse then. The blind leading the blind! lol
@@jazminharris1923 “David is super biased”
“How is he biased”
“He’s not biased”
Go back to school kid
People will believe what they want, regardless of the truth to keep the stories and clicks going. Best to just thumbs down and don't subscribe.
Can’t he just accept the fact that the agents went through the entire text messages exchanged between Ohtani and Ippei from 2020 to 2024 and found ZERO evidence that Ohtani was involved in gambling.
David Sampson is losing credibility everyday he speaks on this matter 😂
Confirmation bias is a crazy thing to watch in real time.
Sampson has been a full-blown Ohtani hater since his Dodger’s contract. His simply incapable of even trying to his his bias at this point lol
He lost credibility when his father in law gave him FO job.
He's little more than a noxious troll trying to keep the attention on himself with his reckless speculations and desperate attempts to keep this little scandal going however he can.
@@tomriddle8699nepotism be crazy
Give Ippei a chance to win the money back.
Hahahaha
😂😂😂
You mean David
if ohtani was a greedy guy he would not defer his contract. A gambling addict will take that money asap
David Samsung doesn’t seem to be a dumb person. If he read the report he already knows the facts, however, his job is to keep the story going.
I paused and stopped watching around the 2min mark. I understand the internet trolls are going to do their thing, but it's disappointing that the media continues to be uninformed. Lots of misinformation being given out. Please read the actual report.
You made all the points ever the most clear as possible Everyways ❤
This chimp face Blur bla,blah is all crap, rubbish .. Did I say Thank you for making my point 🥰?
In the context of Ippei's text admitting he stole, that is not really reckless. At that point, he knew that there was a full investigation and he knew he would be found out. He knew they would look at Ohtani's phone, look into the bookie's records, and probably at that time knew the Feds would obtain audio recordings of him lying to bank employees. Ippei was not "reckless', as this guy in the Marlins cap says. He just knew he was caught and he was going to go down.
17000 bets in 2 years is FULL TIME NONSTOP BETTING. If you think Ohtani, who is obsessed with baseball and rehabbing, signing to a new team etc, had the time to make 17000 bets over 2 years you're insane. - WW
oh man..i thought i was the only person that thought about this..
was gonna post this thought.but saw your comment...bingo!!! if he lost this kind of money.,..or be involed in something this mentally draining...there's no way he'd be MVP!! appreciate your thoughts!
For Ohtani, Ippei was his only close friend from Japan, and Ohtani's family trusted him. It could be said that He had no choice but to trust Ippei in an unfamiliar place.
Mizuhara's addiction of gambling has reached to the point similar to the alcohol addiction or drug addiction, unable to stop himself, losing a judgement of what is legal or illegal. He said he didn't know the gambling was illegal, but knowing of being illegal to steal money from someone else, he willingly committed the fraud, which includes a wire frauds, identity thefts, account takeover and
David Samson can go punch air. Bad GM and now is an internet talk host.
Rich eisen better apologize. He's been an asshole this whole time
It’s an illegal contract , so legally he doesn’t have to pay the money to the bookie
It is very common in Japanese culture, that traditionally the men make the money and the women take care of the home (including the bills). So it may not have been unusual for him to ever check his own banking records.
This has to be the B team on Dan's show. These guys are too young to be this stupid.
Samson thinks life is a movie. He is living in a fantasy land.
Yeah and Mike is your go to for a reality check. Give me a break 🤦😒
What about anything he said has anything to do with "the movies"?
@@wuztron people love hating on Samson for no reason. Put his rings in a box and all his haters rings in a box and see who has more
@mattkhanna, can we count divorce rings? 😆
Butthurt Samson cowardly double down because it's easier than admitting he was wrong! Typical long time Ohtani hater confirmed!
4:13 I know this skeptical hypothetical was basically thrown out in passing, but I think things are being viewed through the wrong paradigm. Ippei's machinations weren't some elaborate 4-D chess maneuvers. He wasn't hacking through firewalls and figuring out passwords w/ algorithms speeding through millions of possible permutations. The degree of difficulty of what he did was that of a college student stealing passwords and banking information from his trusting exchange student roommate.
And the nature of the theft wasn't some elaborately schemed 10-year plan where he'd siphon off "unnoticed" increments of cash into multiple untraceable offshore accounts. If anything, his theft was more akin to a desperate junkie pilfering bits of his mother's cash she had hidden in some cookie tin on the top shelf of her closet. He needed a fix and he was strapped for the buy money.
And this analogy can be extended onto Shohei's side of things too. Just like the mother, he had no reason to think that his cookie tin stash wasn't safe sitting where it was. Especially because it was just a "stash" and hardly the sum total of her disposable income. Maybe she didn't know her son knew the whereabouts of the stash or even about the existence of it. But she had no reason to go out of her way to check it on a regular basis. (And in Shohei's case, doing something even that seemingly routine would likely have required some English-speaking assistance.)
As for the "smoking gun" and Ippei's other "sloppy" text messages with the bookie, it's pretty obvious why they were in the form they were. He apparently met the guy at a poker game and they had a friendly rapport. And when it got the point Ippei was desperate for another bump (knowing full well that he could get cut off any minute, not only from his gambling habit itself but also the only means he saw to recoup his losses and replenish the stolen funds), of course he's going to try coming across as charming and disarming as possible.
And when the walls started closing in, Ippei was rightfully shitting his pants. When people do that, they tend to reach out to someone for relief or reassurance. Unfortunately for him, this bookie was LITERALLY the only person he could reach out to that he didn't have to explain the whole backstory to. And when the bookie tried to reassure him that it was a cover-up (because there's no way he knew he was making payments by sneaking into Shohei's account), Ippei added the part about technically stealing. The reason he added this was because he was hoping for additional reassurance as the first one was given w/o knowledge of all the facts. It's like the following:
A: My girl's mad at me because I had lunch with my ex.
B: Don't worry about. It was just lunch. It's not like you cheated on her.
A: Actually, I kinda, sorta did...
He needed to hear SOMEONE say it'll be okay.
Finally, the reason he probably said "technically," was because he genuinely thought he was "borrowing" without permission but with every intent on paying back all the money once he recouped his losses.
Most of these "legitimate questions" are incredibly lazy. They come from such a narrow and myopic scope of understanding and arrive at an some implied conclusion w/ very little critical thinking. It's exhausting.
That 'Free Ippei' shirt didn't age well
This story is WILD. Thats one of the wildest acts of betrayal I ever heard of in my life
Billy Gil is such a conspiracy theorist...
How stupid are these people? He owes an additional $24 million to an illegal gambling operation that is being investigated by the Feds. No, they can’t collect from Ippei. In fact, I don’t think they even have a legal claim.
LOL! Ippei owing illegal bookies, but must pay the criminals doing illegal things. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ippei will get a slap on the wrist.
I already know this because his bond was only $25K.
If I get into a fight at a bar and go to jail, I might get the same bond amount. 😝
The last minute, extremely well crafted story which completely absolves the most famous and wealthy party and establishes the poor best friend as responsible with minimum jail time seems quite plausible! Our justice system at work!
in other news, ippei's family just bought a castle
Ippei dropping more coin at the casino than Michael J Fox at a parking meter.
These media clowns are trying to destroy Shohei after he immediately gave up his phone to the FBI..and are still all over Tom Brady's jock when he destroyed his
I’m confused about how much bias there is against him, especially since as more information has come out that Shohei looks more innocent
People have different strengths and weaknesses. You can be one of the best in the world at one thing (baseball) and completely fail at another (preventing fraud). Just like I couldn't be a professional baseball player, but I'm sure many of them couldn't do my job either.
Watching Dodgers fans fume because people have doubts about the story is hilarious.
Baloney - you guys are such suckers!! This sounds exactly like those stories written about how McGwire’s workout and supplement regimen was revolutionizing the game back in like 1998
My brother in Christ, there's more than 900 pages of text messages.
@@roachasaurus2020 mhmm…and I got some oceanfront property in Nebraska to sell ya. There’s one born every minute
@@roachasaurus2020❤❤y❤❤❤❤❤úy
@@rynob356 This isn't 1998. This is 2024. There is a digital trail on everything you do, bank records, text messages, pings, and even recorded phone calls. I trust the DOJ, Homeland Security, and the FBI's investigation on this case more than I trust a random dude who spits out conspiracy theories.
Sounds more like Balco where mysteriously everyone forgot to protect a bunch of Hall of Famers.
FIY they are not "Close Friends" you could watch the past interviews of Ohtani...Try to search first before dragging words😡
That’s the same thing I was thinking. I could’ve sworn I saw a quote around the time Shohei signed with the Dodgers in which he said Ippei wasn’t his friend, he worked for him. I feel like the friendship narrative has been a little overblown. Yeah Ippei was around Shohei a lot because he was literally Shohei’s voice and ears.
The interpreter is an absolute genius ! He not only kept shohe otani in the dark but he kept all his many accountants that handle his moneys in the dark and blocked All communications to the attorneys also! I'm assuming he filed his yearly tax return and explained all these in and out going monies to the IRS ?
Clearly you did not read the affidavit. Nobody knew about the in and out money. Many people asked about the separate account, but Ippei lied to everyone, saying it was a private account and assured the accountants and other financial advisors that the account was private and had no interest earnings and no gift transactions. Ippei was the gatekeeper and had total control of the account.
I mean how did an illegal bookie operate if they needed to report to the IRS? Like this was all illegal why would anyone be reporting “ins and outs?”
Why would the guy sweat when he bet someone's else money
Wow. Really weird. Dodgers are breathing a sigh of relief their cash cow was only robbed.
Legal gambling can only be good for the integrity of baseball and other US sports. Yeah.
Dude, Billy... you sound insane.
Mike looks so young
David Samson !! Whoever it is,, you have bad reputation in Japan. Just stay where you are
Justice for Bauer...
It's funny how people believe that story, even if it's true.
Shohmei the money
Samson is obnoxious. He makes clear that there's NO evidence that Ohtani had anything to do with gambling; in fact, the thousands of emails between Ohtani and Mizuhara never mention betting once, and Mizuhara admits to the bookie that he stole from Ohtani. Yet Samsun has to leave room for more reckless speculation and trolling, because this little media "scandal" story is just too valuable for the irresponsible commentators. As for MLB, it's reasonable for them to do whatever independent investigation they have going to ensure this doesn't have some tawdry details that could hurt them. But maybe they should consider the fact that MLB and the teams are all heavily involved with gambling in various forms. It's out of control, and MLB is the one that holds responsibility for the gambling cancer.
I don't believe it
He's as bad as Stephen A smith
#bye. Norby
IPEI WAS NOT A FALL GUY. STOP IT. HATERS GONNA HATE. YOU SHOULD BE SUED.
Technically slanderous to disparage and defame someone's reputation, even by subtle implications.
There's not a chance in hell Shoei isn't in on this, you mean to tell me Shoei was banking somewhere that didn't have any employees that speak Japanese GTFOH.
Sigh. Just read the affidavit. It's all answered in the affidavit.
Shit, they're clearly sleeping together.
Naw.. I'll wait till all the information comes out.. something still doesn't smell right
Stay butthurt stick with your conspiracy theories! lol
That thing that you smell might be your upper lip.
@@robertmeneses101 😂🤣🤣😂🤣 Or maybe something further down. LOL!
The guy makes a great scapegoat. me personally, I dont buy it. Y'all will swallow the official MLB story. Same people that jate on Bauer.
If fans believe him it's mostly because the media presented this as "interpreter fired, alleged to have gambling problem.." instead of the more factual and I think newsworthy lead which was "millions of dollars on ohtani account goes to illegal sports book."
The internet is where conspiracies have more reach than facts. You underestimate the internet naively my friend😂
you are a clown.
Ohtani plays dumb and uses the interpreter as the scapegoat because he can just say, "No speak any english. He take care of everything."
Its was the 37 pages FEDS report dummy! lol
Nobody is skeptical of these Japanese?
Is everyone dumb? This guy just took the heat for Ohtani.
I guess with all the evidence presented isn't enough for you. If they said he was guilty, you would believe that immediately.
If there's any type of investigation you should trust, it's an IRS investigation. They want to make sure they didnt miss out on anything
Clearly you did not read the affidavit. Don't comment until you do some research, or you are the one who looks dumb.
He can't just *take the heat* here, he can't just say "I did" and Ohtani is saved. This was a Federal Investigation done by multiple agencies, they picked through everything and released a 37 page document showing Ohtani was a clear victim of theft. You sound ridiculous dude.
🤔 shit still isn't adding up but who knows…..
The information on the court complaint documents clarify a lot of questions
@@Shakazulu6.1 Everything adds up perfectly, but obviously he/she/they/them/theirs did not read the affidavit.
There's a 37 page document that explains everything. It's pretty clear he was a victim of theft dude.
@@omgbygollywow sadly they can’t stand accepting his innocence.
The only way for anyone to actually believe Ohtani's story is you accept that he's an incredibly stupid person. I'd much rather believe he's a gambling addict tbh.
There's a great YT channel called Baseball doesn't exist. Watch the recent video on Japanese Baseball. It might change your mind on Ohtani's aloofness. Japanese culture is just built differently. They train like navy seals at Baseball from childhood and on. I can totally see Shohei never looking at his bank account, is all.
@@Laidback_616 So everyone who has been embezzled is stupid? He might be naive, but he's one of the busiest, wealthiest men on the planet. That doesn't make him stupid. In fact, he might be smarter than you. Japan is rated #6 in education while United State is #31.
No one here is believing a story, we're believing a Federal Investigation and 37 page document that clearly shows he's a victim. He was certainly naive and trusting, but that's infinitely better than being a liar, addict, and illegal gambler who should be banned from MLB.
@@omgbygollywow haha after reading the report, I'm 100% certain that Ohtani is not smarter than me; he's dumb as fuck.
Even in this terrible clip they mention Tim Duncan. Shohei wouldn’t even be the 100th baseball player scammed by someone they trusted. The initial slap to conclusions and the conclusion being stuck to says more about the people making it than the evidence or reality.
this guy is taking a fall. he is the fall guy for otani
Low IQ
Can I get the name of that bank?
Can you cheating wife drain your bank account! lol
I worked in the Trust industry (managing assets for estates, wealthy people, and even corporate pension funds, etc.) and also the banking industry for 20 years. There is a lot of embezzlement that goes on. The companies that are victims usually try to hush things up and hide as much from the media as possible, as it is bad look to the public. In cases where a large group of people are working for a wealthy person or corporation, there is a lot of cracks and holes which people can exploit. It's called diffusion of responsibility and the bystander effect. In today's world, everyone's job is so specialized and narrow that people know only their own job functions and tasks and are blind to the bigger picture or what others may be doing. Often, the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. Lots of opportunities for malfeasance and lots of cases of just plain lack of oversight.