Ippei Mizuhara confessed candidly to the bookie via text message.

Ippei Mizuhara, faces a federal complaint for allegedly embezzling over $16 million from player Shohei Ohtani.

Texts between Mizuhara and a bookie suggest Mizuhara's admission of guilt, despite initially claiming Ohtani knew about the gambling debts.

Authorities detail Mizuhara elaborate scheme to access Ohtani's accounts. The bookie belief that Ohtani willingly gave money complicates the case.

 

[Daniel04]

This is also a lesson for anyone out there, mind how you spend your money and don't get in over your head with gambling. It's not worth losing everything and going to jail over. Mizuhara should have known better than to steal from his own client too.