The Federal Prosecutor's Office denied the claims of Shoei Ohtanis of former interpreter that he had stolen the racket to repay massive game debts. Thursday.
Ippei Mibuhara is to be convicted on February 6th after his culpable plea. Last week he asked US district judge John W. Holcomb for an 18-month prison sentence instead of the almost five years of effort. Mibuhara said he was reputable and accused the crime, which he described as a “long-time” search for gambling, in which he “visited casinos four to five times a week”.
In their new answer, however, the prosecutors doubled their conviction recommendation and said their investigations had no evidence of a long addiction as Mibuhara's “selfish and unconfirmed statements about the psychologist, which he had set for the conviction”.
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“All accused claim to be repentant at the time of the conviction,” wrote prosecutors. “The question that the courts have to answer is whether the defendant is really repentant or whether he is only sorry for being caught.”
Mibuhara's lawyer, Michael Freedman, refused to comment on Thursday.
The public prosecutors said that the government's investigation showed “only minimal evidence” of Mibuhara's former legal gambling and found that the investigators had looked more than 30 casinos all over the country and that “the only evidence was.”
The public prosecutor added a document with a color photocopy of the California driver's license from Mibuhara together with spreadsheets that show the bets that he placed on the Mirage.
Mibuhara registered for an account in 2018 for Fanduel, but according to the prosecutors, never bet on the website. He began to bet with Draftkings in 2023 after “already stolen millions of dollars from Mr. Ohtani,” the registrations said.
Other exhibits showed that Mibuhara betting in the range of 5 to 1,400 US dollars for NBA, NHL, football and college baseball games.
The prosecutors claim that Mibuhara had not accumulated a “enormous fault” that forced him to steal from ohtani, as Mibuhara said. At the time of the first fraudulent transfer of ohtanis bank account for “modest 40,000 US dollars” in September 2021, Mibuhara had more than 34,000 US dollars on his current account, the prosecutors said.
“[Mizuhara] Could have used his own money to pay the bookmaker, but instead decided to steal Mr. Ohtani, ”wrote the public prosecutor.
They claim that Mibuhara had paid money from his profits from the bookmaker and Draftkings into his personal account and “not intention to repay Mr. Ohtani”.
In his submission to Holcomb, Mibona claimed that he “rented a place near Ohtani” and “paid rent”, where he finally settled in Newport Beach, California, while at the same time paid rent for an apartment in Japan. In his registration, he also explained that he had “salary check with salary check”.
“But that is not true either,” the prosecutors wrote in their registration and submitted bank statements as evidence that showed that he used Mr. Ohtanes debit card to pay his rent without ohtanis “knowledge or approval”.
“He had no expenses,” continued the prosecutors. “He had no loans, car payments or rental costs,” said Mibuhara that Ohtani gave a Porsche to drive.
Mibuhara always had a “considerable credit” on his checking account, Staatelwaltung, found that it was more than $ 30,000 in March 2023 and in March 2024 more than 195,000 US wire transfers “massive theft”.
The public prosecutor also said that despite ohtani, Mizuhara rejected him book and commercial business and “encouraged him to” accept the business “. Mizuhara” actually wrote at least one book ” – an illustrated children's book about Ohtani, according to an exhibition.
The public prosecutor made its registration required by specifying a significant period of imprisonment and confirmed its application for a prison sentence of 57 months, three years supervised release, more than $ 16 million in ohtani and $ 1.1 million for the IRS.
“There is no doubt” Mibuhara “, ashamed of the international attention that he received from his fraud systems and his network of lies,” the prosecutors wrote. “But instead of showing true regrets,” they claim that Mizuhara tries to “steal millions of Mr. Ohtani”.
