SANTA ANA, Calif. — A federal judge sentenced Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter convicted of defrauding Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, to 57 months in prison at a sentencing hearing inside Orange County Superior Court on Thursday.
Mizuhara sat silently, and had no visible reaction as Judge John W. Holcomb read the sentence, which included three years of supervised release and a restitution of more than $18 million to Ohtani and the Internal Revenue Service.
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The sentence was exactly what the government had requested in a pre-sentencing filing. Mizuhara had requested an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty in June to bank fraud and filing a false tax return.
Holcomb stated that
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