Ippei Mizuhara reported to federal prison on Monday to begin his 5-year sentence, as Shohei Ohtani made his long-awaited ...

Ippei Mizuhara, the disgraced former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, is in federal prison in Pennsylvania, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told ESPN ...

After being sentenced to 57 months in prison at the beginning of the year, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara ...

Mizuhara’s Instagram account now has 419,000 followers, and though he rarely posts on the social media platform, he did thank Angel fans after Ohtani signed with the Dodgers.

Mizuhara, who was Ohtani’s close friend and had worked with the pitcher since 2017, reportedly was in federal custody and and appeared in a Los Angeles court on Friday afternoon.

Mizuhara originally faced a maximum sentence of 33 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and a fine of $1,250,000 in addition to providing restitution to Ohtani and the IRS.

Ippei Mizuhara, the ex-interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, pretended to be the Dodgers superstar in a call to a bank as he attempted to get a $200,000 wire transfer cleared from one of the ballplayer ...

Mizuhara’s career, education history questioned. In addition to allegations that Mizuhara stole money from Ohtani and gambled it away, his work and education history is also under scrutiny.

Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on March 21 amid news reports that at least $4.5 million was wired from Ohtani’s accounts to an alleged illegal bookmaker, Mathew Bowyer.

The audio of Ippei Mizuhara’s phone call with the bank in which he impersonated Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to transfer himself $200,000 has been obtained and released by The Athletic.

Mizuhara faces a federal charge of bank fraud after making unauthorized transfers from Ohtani’s bank account from November 2021 until January 2024, US Attorney Martin Estrada said Thursday.

Mizuhara’s wife runs an Instagram page showing the couple’s small dogs, once posting an image of the pets lined up and watching baseball, each wearing Ohtani’s No. 17 Angels jersey ...