{"id":31436,"date":"2025-01-24T05:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T05:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/audio-reveals-ex-interpreter-impersonating-la-dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T05:39:56","slug":"audio-reveals-ex-interpreter-impersonating-la-dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/audio-reveals-ex-interpreter-impersonating-la-dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio reveals ex-interpreter impersonating LA Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Feds seek nearly five-year sentence for Mizuhara<\/li>\n<li>Ex-interpreter is due to be sentenced on 6 February<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani\u2019s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000 for what he describes as a car loan, federal prosecutors said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The recording referenced in a court filing and obtained by the Associated Press is being used to back up prosecutors\u2019 push for a nearly five-year sentence for Mizuhara, who previously pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud for stealing almost $17m from the Los Angeles Dodgers star.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/24\/shohei-ohtani-interpreter-audio\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds seek nearly five-year sentence for Mizuhara Ex-interpreter is due to be sentenced on 6 February A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani\u2019s former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the baseball star on a call with a bank as he attempted to transfer $200,000 for what he describes as a car loan, federal prosecutors &#8230; <a title=\"Audio reveals ex-interpreter impersonating LA Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/24\/audio-reveals-ex-interpreter-impersonating-la-dodgers-star-shohei-ohtani\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Audio reveals ex-interpreter impersonating LA Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}