Ohtani’s translator fired for stealing/betting MILLIONS with bookie

[BigJay]

Ok where is the “draymond green should be suspended for a while” crowd?

Better hear some suspension requests from them

Did Draymond’s translator steal money for gambling too?

 

[djefferis]

the interpreter was making between 300k and 500k a year who knows if he didn't get any more kind of bonuses from ohtani, i really doubt ohtani would risk a 700 million dollar contract

Yes - because we all know compulsive gamblers are if nothing else - logical - never putting their jobs/families or assets at risk to feed an addiction - right ?

Is it Ohtani - who knows. I agree it’s “doubtful” - but let’s also not ignore the facts here - other well known athletes have been involved with this group - DURING their playing days. It’s only a violation if he bet on baseball. He could certainly have bet on soccer and been clear by MLB player code of conduct - only in trouble with the IRS for unreported earnings - if they existed.

The interpreter says Ohtani didn’t place the bets - again - what do you expect him to say ? Dude is being paid and protected by Ohtani’s team here - right up until when he wasn’t (allegedly - still possible they made it look like they split - only for Ohtani to be paying him under the table/providing a new legal team of his own).

I’m just pointing out the common sense things here - a guy making 500k can’t pay a 5 million marker in general unless he’s invested in BTC or has a family connection that’s loaded. He has a friend who was loaded - but these guys realize no way his friend was going to pay his debt consistently and not in the millions. They may have extended him a few hundred thousand - but not millions.

It’s well known Mickelson bet large amounts - Jordan too - as long as they weren’t betting on their respective sport - it was ok. (Of course Mickelson is rumored TO have bet on golf). Ohtani betting a half million on soccer would have been tabloid fodder for sure - especially given his relative reclusiveness and stardom in Japan. Even if it wasn’t him - to me there’s no doubt he KNEW about it before yesterday and had some effort in resolving the debt. At face value - it’s likely a bungled cover up by Ohtani’s team and an effort to save face now by tossing someone under the proverbial bus. At worst - guy makes a billion and bets millions. Either way - none of us are any the worse off.

Still - it just shows the lengths leagues will go to hide the truth. No one wants to admit the influence of certain companies and leagues CAN be bought. It’s happened in many other leagues worldwide already - but it’s coming to American sports now. It’s a bad look for MLB after years of the nagging Pete Rose ban debate amongst fans and they saw what a gambling probe of a rogue employee did to the NBA. Not a good time for this to pop up as they begin cashing in on legal gambling.

 

[djefferis]

And I think Ohtani’s team is stealing a page from the playbook of the fired Jags junior employee who stole 21 million.

Only difference here - this was CREDIT.

Someone want to explain how DraftKings/FanDuel got a pass on filing a SAR from some guy who was betting millions with them - despite not appearing to have anywhere near the means to play at that level - meanwhile host from large casinos get charged for allowing millionaires to bet 100k a game ? One could conceivably afford to bet the level of action they were placing - one couldn’t - but the ones who COULD are considered “suspicious”. Guess it all depends on who your employer supported the last election doesn’t it ?

 

[stormtrooper8]

Did Draymond’s translator steal money for gambling too?

Did Ohtani’s?

Conflicting stories

Sounds like they’re tying to put it all on the interpreter now since that’s the only way Ohtani is “innocent”

 

[stormtrooper8]

I don’t think Ohtani gambled here, but he probably knowingly settled the debt

Making him guilty

 

[lekidecincinnati]

the jags guy got only 6.5 years for stealing millions, unreal how light a sentence that is

 

[BobbyFK]

Looks like Dodgers and Ohtani's Atty's already polished everything, so I don't think MLB is still going to investigate.

Why wouldn't they investigate?

 

[Tanko]

Why wouldn't they investigate?

It will give MLB a black eye if they find their superstar is guilty of illegal gambling.
They can say they don't need to investigage since they have an "answer"..... Ohtani and his lawyers are accusing the interpretor of theft. So they may let it go.

 

[djefferis]

the jags guy got only 6.5 years for stealing millions, unreal how light a sentence that is

Yes and no.

Yes - 6.5 years (and likely shorter) for stealing 25 MILLION is pretty stiff - considering guys who sold week were betting double that routinely a few years ago and they made no where near a million - much less 25.

At the same time - this guy was just quite literally walking around taking money that no one was watching. Seriously - how did a team of accountants not notice it missing with all the fake receipts and purchase orders - and how did the sites not question the excessive use of multiple credit cards for hundreds of thousands at a time ?!?

I’ve seen attorneys get MONTHS of home confinement for stealing a few million from older people/estates. There was a massive estate from some older recluse with no immediate known relatives - attorney just said he found a relative - faked paperwork and then cleaned it out. I’d argue that’s a lot worse than what the jags kid did here - he stole from ignorant billionaire whose accounting staff couldn’t catch glaring errors. This guy stole from deceased/elderly people who had no ability to make decisions and entrusted a professional. Sure he lost his license - but his age - it was unlikely he’d ever practice law again anyway.

 

[djefferis]

I don’t think Ohtani gambled here, but he probably knowingly settled the debt

Making him guilty

Exactly - even if he did - as mentioned not a crime

The crime is flipping stories and claiming he is a “victim of theft” - when in fact he just doesn’t like the optics of paying a bookie hundreds of thousands of dollars - so he changed HIS story.

If he had simply paid the debt - left it alone - it’s a story - but not much else. Of course that “story” would be a black mark on an otherwise very marketable personality and could hurt his income. So now he changed the story to play victim and protect his image.

I don’t care if you make 65 million a year - of someone “steals” 5 million - you notice it.

Put it in more relatable terms to posters here - you make 65k a year - would you notice of 5k was missing from your bank account ? Damn right you would - that’s a months pay. You’d miss that and be calling the bank immediately - not 6 months after it went missing.

 

[jjgold]

Can you imagine if he was betting baseball and angel games?

 

[DiggityDaggityDo]

 

[bigdaniil445]

Illegal shmillegal.

Bitcoin ETFs weren't legal just a year ago. Now it's a 100 billion dollar asset class.

Is the whole of MLB even worth 50 billion?

 

[bigdaniil445]

The point is - things change, and gambling WILL be embraced here in Florida, and in Texas, and even California - eventually.

Ohtani and many others are just ahead of his time on this.

 

[BMR Genie]

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Guilty lol

 

[jjgold]

I was thinking he had nothing to do with it other than paying his friend to pay the debts

 

[DiggityDaggityDo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1772361577477366070

 

[Capitalist Pig]

I read earlier the IRS is leading the federal investigation into the bookie and interpreter, but the bookie claims he never met the baseball player, just the interpreter.

 

[jjgold]

It’s over

 

[BigJay]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/us/ohtani-interpreter-gambling-monday/index.html