The former interpreter for Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay millions in restitution Thursday for bank and tax fraud in the theft of nearly $17 million from the three-time Major League Baseball MVP’s bank account.
Ippei Mizuhara, 40, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $18 million. That figure includes restitution to Shohei Ohtani of $16,975,010 and to the IRS of $1,149,400. The sentence was largely in line with what prosecutors requested.
He also faces three years of supervised release.
Mizuhara, once part of the inner circle of one the world’s most famous athletes, appeared with his attorney about 40…
