Ippei fired by Dodgers after being accused of theft by Ohtani’s attorney’s

[m0nkey]

1 hour ago, cals said:

It’s LA County and he’s a minority.  Gascon isn’t going to touch him.

But he’s Asian so he’s fair game. 

[cals]

1 hour ago, Blarg said:

He will if he finds Ippei voted for Trump. They will unveil lost footage of Ippei storming the capitol building. 

[Ace-Of-Diamonds]

Mookie and Shohei standing side by side, their jerseys read Ohtani Betts.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

18 hours ago, Duren, Duren said:

 

The Dodger media people and lawyers must have had some heavy strategy sessions on the weekend to finalize the narrative. They seem to be borrowing strategy from Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals.'  Specifically this rule. 

"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."

Ippei really is an easy target. Marginalized,without the financial resources to defend himself fully. Admittedly breaking some laws. And easily demonized particularly by those invested in the Dodgers and MLB. 

Which in itself doesn't absolve him pending more factual information. But this simple polarization of a 100% good guy victimized by a 100% bad guy seems overly simplistic and intentionally meant to stop further speculation. 

I'm not buying for an instant that Ippei took $4.5M out of Shohei's bank account without him knowing. In order for that to happen:

1. Ohtani would have had to set up his account so that Ippei was an authorized user, which makes no sense.

2. Alternately, Ippei would have had to somehow get the password for Ohtani's online account. Even presuming that this happened, most banks will alert the account holder through text and/or email of any large transactions involving his or her account. I also can't buy that Ippei took out $500K nine or ten times without Ohtani's knowledge. Possibly after the first transfer and definitely after the second one, the bank would have directly called Ohtani and said hey, we have noticed very large transactions on your account. Were they yours?

Knowing how banks work, those funds would not have been released without direct approval from Ohtani.

Edited March 26 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Stradling]

So if Ippei isn’t arrested in the coming days should we assume that it is Ohtani that is doing the betting and that will take longer to prove? 

[T.G.]

7 minutes ago, Stradling said:

So if Ippei isn’t arrested in the coming days should we assume that it is Ohtani that is doing the betting and that will take longer to prove? 

Why assume anything? Why not wait till the facts come out?

[Vegas Halo Fan]

9 minutes ago, Stradling said:

So if Ippei isn’t arrested in the coming days should we assume that it is Ohtani that is doing the betting and that will take longer to prove? 

I also notice that Ohtani's legal team says that this matter was turned over "to the authorities", but no law enforcement agency that would possibly have jurisdiction in the matter has received any complaint. My guess is that nobody is investigating this at all, because Ohtani's hands would be found to be all over it if it were thoroughly investigated.

Edited March 26 by Vegas Halo Fan

[Angels 1961]

3 hours ago, Blarg said:

Because the FBI and IRS want the big fish, not the bait. 

Big fish Trout or Salmon

[Slegnaac]

In the ESPN story it says that a Spokesman for Ohtani told ESPN the slugger had transferred the funds to cover Mizuhara's gambling debt.

I am curious who this Spokesman is, and was he fired by Ohtani after signing an NDA.

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, tdawg87 said:

Isn't this a federal crime?

Haha, cals self-owned again.

[Jason]

18 minutes ago, T.G. said:

Why assume anything? Why not wait till the facts come out?

Internet sleuths do not need facts. 

[Taylor]

3 hours ago, cals said:

Then it’s Biden who won’t prosecute.  Same shit.

 

2 hours ago, Blarg said:

He will if he finds Ippei voted for Trump. They will unveil lost footage of Ippei storming the capitol building. 

Please, no politics in the main form. Reported.

[jsnpritchett]

Also, this book was released today.  Good timing.

[Lazorko Saves]

43 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Please, no politics in the main form. Reported.

Careful cals, Taylor has AG Garland's cell phone number, so when he means "reported", it may not mean reported to Chuck.

[PattyD22]

1 hour ago, Ace-Of-Diamonds said:

Mookie and Shohei standing side by side, their jerseys read Ohtani Betts.

 

[cals]

4 minutes ago, Lazorko Saves said:

Careful cals, Taylor has AG Garland's cell phone number, so when he means "reported", it may not mean reported to Chuck.

Yeah but Taylor has a lot of random men’s phone numbers on his phone so this doesn’t  necessarily mean anything.

[Taylor]

21 minutes ago, cals said:

Yeah but Taylor has a lot of random men’s phone numbers on his phone so this doesn’t  necessarily mean anything.

I've been saving them to one day text your number to all of them and say, "This guy is down to party."

[ten ocho recon scout]

If the truth comes out that Ippei asked Ohtani for money for "X" (like investing in something, buying a home etc) and it turns out he was duped and it was for gambling, I can see that and understand it.

 

What I don't get it's that it's been a week now, and Ohtamis people haven't simply explained it like that. No statement at all about how exactly he was victimized, just that he was.

That doesn't make sense....

I also don't believe for a second (even of Ohtani was duped) that he didn't find out anything was up until Ippei gave a team meeting.

 

I.... have a really hard time believing ESPN not only had the scoop, but somehow knew to blame Ippei... before the Feds ever at least contacted Ohtani's lawyer to advise him he was being investigated. 

 

Doesn't add up...

[yamsi12]

They need to lock both of them up.

[nothing, Nothing]

2 hours ago, Slegnaac said:

In the ESPN story it says that a Spokesman for Ohtani told ESPN the slugger had transferred the funds to cover Mizuhara's gambling debt.

I am curious who this Spokesman is, and was he fired by Ohtani after signing an NDA.

Yup no name yet but it sounds like Ohtani straight up hired a fixer, or sorry a ''crisis management spokesman''. And like everyone else in the timeline he never talked to Ohtani to get his side or iron out the next moves. Kind of strange since it was this fixer person who set up the large Dodgers in house meeting where Ohtani was attending as well. Guy supposedly never talked to Ohtani to tell him what was actually going to be said at the meeting (lol). Quite possibly the worst fixer in the history of fixers. But with the media on their side and Ippei probably getting paid under the table to take full responsibility and more than likely Ohtani not wanting to press charges for the theft it will all just go away. Or well at least until the Bowers guy is facing a long prison sentence and he wants to tell his side of all of this.     

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

If the truth comes out that Ippei asked Ohtani for money for "X" (like investing in something, buying a home etc) and it turns out he was duped and it was for gambling, I can see that and understand it.

 

 

I can understand that too.  But 8+ times?

[ten ocho recon scout]

30 minutes ago, nothing, Nothing said:

Yup no name yet but it sounds like Ohtani straight up hired a fixer, or sorry a ''crisis management spokesman''. And like everyone else in the timeline he never talked to Ohtani to get his side or iron out the next moves. Kind of strange since it was this fixer person who set up the large Dodgers in house meeting where Ohtani was attending as well. Guy supposedly never talked to Ohtani to tell him what was actually going to be said at the meeting (lol). Quite possibly the worst fixer in the history of fixers. But with the media on their side and Ippei probably getting paid under the table to take full responsibility and more than likely Ohtani not wanting to press charges for the theft it will all just go away. Or well at least until the Bowers guy is facing a long prison sentence and he wants to tell his side of all of this.     

So basically I'm not crazy right? When the original story was breaking, it was reported as a "spokesman for Ohtani" told Ippei to talk to the media?

[T.G.]

1 hour ago, gotbeer said:

I can understand that too.  But 8+ times?

It's been reported as 2 times.

Still sketchy though

 

[gotbeer]

10 minutes ago, T.G. said:

It's been reported as 2 times.

Still sketchy though

 

2 times would mean $2.25 million.  How does a nobody get that much credit from a bookie, unless it was a somebody.  

[Blarg]

Ohtani really needed to set up his bank phone alerts in Japanese so Ippei wasn't interpreting them.