Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for MLB star Shohei Ohtani, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison on Thursday on charges related to stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodgers player.

Shohei Ohtani's onetime interpreter was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar to pay off gambling losses. In addition to the ...

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, right, with his former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. (Ashley Landis / Associated Press) After 18 months of shopping the script, the ...

Shohei Ohtani, Major League Baseball's highest-paid player, broke his silence Monday afternoon about a gambling scandal that prompted his team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to fire his interpreter last ...

Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara (left) was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for embezzling from Dodger star Shohei Ohtani (right) (Christian Petersen/Getty Images) The dramatic retelling of Los ...