April 11, 2024 • 18 mins
In episode #3 of "Sound-off with Sinkoff", Brian Sinkoff discusses the controversy surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, who has been charged with bank fraud.
Sinkoff questions how Ohtani could be unaware of the millions of dollars being stolen from his account over a three-year period. He also raises doubts about Mizuhara's claim that none of his 19,000 bets were on baseball.
Sinkoff criticizes the lack of transparency and accountability from Ohtani and his team, and expresses skepticism about the overall narrative of the case.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And hello everybody and welcome to Sound Off with
Sinkoff, a podcast starring me,brian Sinkoff.
We talk the world of sports, wetalk pop culture, we talk
zombies, we talk whatever theheck I want to sound off about.
Of course, sound Off withSinkoff is sponsored by the
Sinkoff Realty Group, afull-service real estate firm
(00:22):
located in Del Mar, the capitalregion of New York.
All right, so I wanted to soundoff today about Shohei Ohtani
and sort of what is going onwith the Dodger star.
Just wanted to say that here onApril 11th, it is found out
that Mizuhara Ipe Mizuhara, hislongtime confidant, his
(00:46):
interpreter, otani's longtimeconfidant and interpreter, has
been charged with bank fraudAfter it was revealed he
transferred more than $16million from Otani's account to
an alleged illegal sportsbook.
That's what federal authoritiesannounced in LA court.
Now we should also point outthat Mizohara was instantly
(01:11):
fired when this came out a fewweeks ago, you know, right
before this.
Actually, it was like the firstweek of the regular season,
because the first game was inJapan, the Dodgers were playing
the first game and all of asudden you know, the guy is, the
Dodgers were playing the firstgame and all of a sudden, the
guy the Dodgers distancedthemselves from the interpreter.
Otani distanced themselves fromthe interpreter.
(01:33):
First the interviews were oh, Igot in a gambling debt.
This is what Muzahara said.
I got in a gambling debt.
Otani bailed me out and then itwas like oh wait, no, that's
wrong.
I lied.
I stole all this money fromOtani.
We first thought it was $4million.
Then it turns out it's $16million.
(01:57):
People, the math is not mathinghere.
I read the documents today thatwere uh issued at the court.
They said um mizuhara changedthe accounts on otani's name.
They changed the accounts umthat that he was the one.
Who, who, um, who you know, didthe transfers when the bank
(02:21):
called.
But you know, when the bankcalled him, it was.
He was saying he was.
He was falsifying the records.
I don't believe that for asecond.
Let's just let's think about.
Let's just think about whatcame out today.
The complaint states thatbetween december 2021, in this
past january, mizuhara allegedlyplaced 19,000 bets.
(02:44):
He lost $182 million.
He won $142 million.
He lost nearly $40 million.
He stole $26 million from Otani.
Excuse me, he stole $14 millionfrom Otani.
(03:06):
Where on earth did the other$26 million come from?
Who covered the $40 million inlosses if Otani only allegedly
stole $14 million from Otani.
$14 million from Otani, it's alot of bets and it just doesn't
(03:27):
add up 19,000 bets.
And also, the feds have saidtoday that none of the bets were
on baseball.
Now I find this almost as hardto believe as I do that somehow
Otani was not involved.
Do I think Shohei Otani wasbetting on baseball?
(03:48):
I want to be clear about thisand say I don't.
I don't know if he was.
I'm going to give him thebenefit of the doubt, but I am
really firm in my belief thatShohei Otani knew something
about this.
Maybe didn't know as he was init, but as his translator got,
as he was in it, but as histranslator got knee-deep into it
, I think Otani tried to bailhim out.
(04:10):
But there is no way he didn'thave anything to do with this.
I don't believe it for a second.
And they're saying that thetranslator cut out Otani's
management, his money, people,all of that stuff.
So he had unfettered cut outotani's management, his money,
people, all of that stuff.
So he had unfettered access tootani's account and did whatever
(04:31):
he wanted and there was nooversight.
When this broke in march, I saidthree things.
One, it was otani who wasinvolved in the betting and he
was a gambler.
I didn't know about, all right,I didn't know that that was the
case.
No-transcript or three.
(04:55):
He is the most naive person inthe world, gullible.
And this guy really stole fromme and no knowledge.
I think it's probably somewherein the middle of two and three.
I don't think Otani is naive.
I don't know that he wasbetting, but I can tell you
right now, I just find it hardto believe that a guy making 25
(05:19):
bets every day for 750 straightdays, that his best friend, the
guy who spent every wakingmoment with him, didn't know
something was going on.
And again, not to say thatOtani bet on games, not to say
that he was betting on baseball,but it's just, it's too, too
weird.
And here's the other thing youknow, I bought shoes at zappos
(05:44):
last week.
My credit card buzzed me andsaid you're spending money,
brian, on something that isn'tnormal.
Is this a real charge?
I paid a bill.
Um, what did I pay?
I paid, oh, for this podcast,for the website I host this
podcast on.
I paid a year subscription.
(06:06):
My credit card got lockedbecause I didn't you know, it
didn't recognize a $200-whatevercharge and it locked my credit
card, recognized a 200 andwhatever dollar charge and it
locked my credit card.
So you know the bank isallowing all of this money to
take place.
Otani is never directly involved.
His money.
People aren't directly involved.
(06:28):
Now, if he 16 million dollars,if he took from otani, otani
only made about $40 million insalary with the Angels.
Okay, he made a lot more inendorsements.
I don't know how did he notcheck his bank account?
I mean, literally, it justdoesn't add up.
(06:49):
Did Otani?
I don't care that the guy wasstealing from him, I don't care
that he may not have authorizedthe payments and maybe the guy
was falsifying the permission tothe bank about transferring
money.
But did Ohtani never look athis bank account?
Did he never see that millionsof dollars was missing?
Did he not see that $500,000 isgoing out here and $2,000 is
(07:14):
going out here?
Just something doesn't add upup the math ain't mathing.
16 million.
Um, he stole from otani.
He was 40 million in debt.
Where's the other 24 milliondollars?
Or, excuse me, where's theother 26 million dollars?
It doesn't make any sense.
Um, also, how is the bookieallowing a translator who makes
(07:41):
roughly three hundred thousanddollars a year?
How is he giving um on justjust unlimited amount of credit,
like I don't get that.
He had unfettered access tootani's account.
He's given unlimited credit bya bookie.
Bookies aren't really known atthat level for being nice to
letting it slide.
(08:02):
This ain't the bookie you usedin college betting on the USC
game for you know $200.
Okay, this is high-end gamblingstakes where you're talking.
You know thousands of bets overthe course of time.
I just don't get it.
24 bets a day for 26 straightmonths.
(08:25):
I don't know, it's just.
It's.
How is he given that type ofcredit line?
That is what I don't understand.
And Otani not finding out?
How does he not know?
How do his handlers not know?
Isn't someone watching hisaccount?
(08:46):
I mean, he has got to be themost naive person in the world
if he doesn't know that hismoney was missing.
I don't think Otani wasoblivious.
If he is, he's naive.
(09:07):
What bookie taking that type ofaction?
It's just a bookie taking thattype of action not knowing if
there's someone behind this thatcan finance the deal is why I
find this all hard to believe.
I don't think a bookie who ismaking bets of millions of
(09:29):
dollars $182 million.
The bookie was just allowingthese bets to happen out of the
goodness of his heart.
If he didn't think in his heartof hearts, the guy could pay it
back.
I mean, you're talking $182million in losing bets and $142
million in winning bets.
(09:50):
That's a $40 million difference.
He allegedly took $14 millionfrom Otani speaking of Mizohara
the translator, so there's $26million of.
How did he pay it back?
Did he not pay it back?
Is he in debt?
And here's the other thingpeople, I love the fact that
this guy made 19,000 bets.
(10:11):
Right, his translator, mizohara, made 19,000 bets, bets, and
not one of them was on baseball.
Are you buying that?
Seriously, are you buying a guywho's making 19,000 bets?
Who's making let's run the math, because I wrote this down 25
(10:33):
bets every day for 750 straightdays?
Are you buying that?
Not one of those bets was onbaseball.
I mean, first of all, when youget that much in debt, you bet
on anything.
I mean you bet on, you know you, you literally will bet on.
Uh, do I take a pee or a poopthe next morning?
Um, you know, is you know whattime does the mail come?
(10:58):
I mean, that's a bet.
Is it before 10 or after 10?
I'll bet you $50.
It's after 10 am.
Like people that have that muchof a gambling problem are
betting on any and everything,and I just 19,000 bets, but we
never bet on baseball.
But you're $40 million in debt.
(11:18):
Like does it add up?
Just, let's just peel this allaway for a second.
This doesn't add up, it justdoesn't make sense.
And it's the Feds and MajorLeague Baseball and the Dodgers
and even the Angels to a degree.
They've all just pushed thisdirt under the rug.
Okay, they have all basicallyjust said well, otani didn't
(11:45):
know about it, the guy stolefrom him.
End of story.
Otani makes a statement throughhis new translator, never
answers any questions, theproblem just goes away.
Like he's never had to face themusic, he's never had to face
questions on all of this, and Ifind that a little just a little
bit of a slap in the face.
(12:06):
Like face the music dude.
Your translator stole from you.
Your best friend stole from you.
You haven't answered anyquestions to the fans.
Forget the media.
The media is just.
They're just a go-betweenbetween the fans and the player.
Now, in this day and age age,he can do some on his own
twitter.
He can.
(12:26):
He can put out a statementhimself.
He hasn't done that.
So it's like where is hisexplanation?
Why hasn't he answered anyquestions?
Why isn't he answered questionsthe fans are asking?
Because, I'm sorry, I have alot of questions.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you shohei otani bet on
baseball.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you Shohei Ohtani bet on
(12:48):
baseball.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you that Shohei Ohtani
bet on his own team or bet on,you know, pitched bad on purpose
to get money.
I'm just telling you that thereis a lot of weirdness with this
case.
There's a lot of money involved.
There's $180 million ofgambling.
I mean, is that the number Ilooked at?
(13:09):
Yeah, there's 182 milliondollars of gambling that someone
did that lost and they won 142.
They won 142, gambled 182, 142,so they lost 40 million dollars
.
That was going on for threeyears.
How otani didn't know some ofthat money was missing and
(13:30):
remember it wasn't the stolenmoney, it was the money he was
using to finance it, to make thebets.
So I think a lot of people aregetting this like twisted.
Oh we, you know he only missed16 million or 14 million,
whatever it was that he tookfrom from otani, but he was
using otani's money to gambleevery day, like that money.
(13:55):
I mean that money was not 19000 wagers, 25 that's a day for
750 straight days.
And nobody like that.
Money's coming out of otani'saccount and he's not noticing
that because the guy only made300 000 a year.
He didn't have the money to betthat type of cash on games.
(14:19):
He would have lost his moneyquick In two months.
He wouldn't have been able todo that for 750 days.
So remember, otani was thismoney he was stealing from.
Otani was financing his bets.
And again, it's just, it doesn'tadd up.
I don't understand it.
(14:40):
There's too many questions Tome.
It's like Otani is the goldenboy of baseball.
He's the $700 million man.
He's the face of baseball.
He's finally an internationalface, someone that the sport can
get behind to maybe grow thegame.
And this happens.
Major League Baseball haspushed this under the rug.
The Dodgers have pushed itunder the rug.
(15:00):
I'm not saying the feds are inon it, because I think the end
of the day, they're just tryingto bring down this gambler and
whoever gets in the way gets inthe way or not.
The gambler, this bookie,they're trying to bring him down
.
That's what the investigationcenter is on, but there's just a
lot of weirdness going on here.
The math ain't mathing people.
So that's my thoughts on Otaniand his translator.
(15:25):
Again, total loss is $40.7million.
He allegedly took $14 millionfrom Otani.
Where's the other $26 million?
How is this guy using Otani'saccounts for three years and
Otani didn't know money wasmissing?
Dude, I know $37 of ouraccount's missing.
(15:46):
You know I got double chargedfor something.
I'm like wait, because I do myfinances.
And I find it hard to believethat a Major League Baseball
player even if Mizohara wasdirectly involved in the
accounts and it was his name onit he was falsifying the records
(16:07):
.
How does Otani not have anaccountant?
How does he not have someonewho's managing the big picture?
That's not his translator,that's not on the field with him
.
Quote unquote I mean, I havethat, you have that.
I have an accountant who's notin the day-to-day trenches with
me, who's looking at big picture, who's analyzing the funds,
what's coming in, what's goingout.
How's nobody seeing that?
(16:28):
And if nobody saw that, hiscamp, everyone associated with
him and his money deserves to befired yesterday.
What on God's green earth isgoing on?
What in the hell in Troy isthat?
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
People, the math ain't mathing.
So again, a lot of weirdnessgoing on.
(16:48):
Not saying he bet on baseball,not saying he threw games, but
for him not to know, and histeam to not know, that money had
been taken from him on a dailybasis for three years.
It just doesn't add up.
So that's it.
That is SoundOff with SinkOffhere today.
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
Love to get your thoughts onthis.
(17:10):
Prove me wrong.
It's weird, whatever you think.
It's just I've asked relevantquestions.
I don't think my questions andmy hypothesis is that far out of
line, but I'd love to hear yourthoughts.
Love to get your.
You know whether you agree withme here.
You have other ideas?
(17:32):
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I'm Brian Sinkoff saying have agreat day everybody.
And hello everybody and welcome to Sound Off with
Sinkoff, a podcast starring me,brian Sinkoff.
We talk the world of sports, wetalk pop culture, we talk
zombies, we talk whatever theheck I want to sound off about.
Of course, sound Off withSinkoff is sponsored by the
Sinkoff Realty Group, afull-service real estate firm
(00:22):
located in Del Mar, the capitalregion of New York.
All right, so I wanted to soundoff today about Shohei Ohtani
and sort of what is going onwith the Dodger star.
Just wanted to say that here onApril 11th, it is found out
that Mizuhara Ipe Mizuhara, hislongtime confidant, his
(00:46):
interpreter, otani's longtimeconfidant and interpreter, has
been charged with bank fraudAfter it was revealed he
transferred more than $16million from Otani's account to
an alleged illegal sportsbook.
That's what federal authoritiesannounced in LA court.
Now we should also point outthat Mizohara was instantly
(01:11):
fired when this came out a fewweeks ago, you know, right
before this.
Actually, it was like the firstweek of the regular season,
because the first game was inJapan, the Dodgers were playing
the first game and all of asudden you know, the guy is, the
Dodgers were playing the firstgame and all of a sudden, the
guy the Dodgers distancedthemselves from the interpreter.
Otani distanced themselves fromthe interpreter.
(01:33):
First the interviews were oh, Igot in a gambling debt.
This is what Muzahara said.
I got in a gambling debt.
Otani bailed me out and then itwas like oh wait, no, that's
wrong.
I lied.
I stole all this money fromOtani.
We first thought it was $4million.
Then it turns out it's $16million.
(01:57):
People, the math is not mathinghere.
I read the documents today thatwere uh issued at the court.
They said um mizuhara changedthe accounts on otani's name.
They changed the accounts umthat that he was the one.
Who, who, um, who you know, didthe transfers when the bank
(02:21):
called.
But you know, when the bankcalled him, it was.
He was saying he was.
He was falsifying the records.
I don't believe that for asecond.
Let's just let's think about.
Let's just think about whatcame out today.
The complaint states thatbetween december 2021, in this
past january, mizuhara allegedlyplaced 19,000 bets.
(02:44):
He lost $182 million.
He won $142 million.
He lost nearly $40 million.
He stole $26 million from Otani.
Excuse me, he stole $14 millionfrom Otani.
(03:06):
Where on earth did the other$26 million come from?
Who covered the $40 million inlosses if Otani only allegedly
stole $14 million from Otani.
$14 million from Otani, it's alot of bets and it just doesn't
(03:27):
add up 19,000 bets.
And also, the feds have saidtoday that none of the bets were
on baseball.
Now I find this almost as hardto believe as I do that somehow
Otani was not involved.
Do I think Shohei Otani wasbetting on baseball?
(03:48):
I want to be clear about thisand say I don't.
I don't know if he was.
I'm going to give him thebenefit of the doubt, but I am
really firm in my belief thatShohei Otani knew something
about this.
Maybe didn't know as he was init, but as his translator got,
as he was in it, but as histranslator got knee-deep into it
, I think Otani tried to bailhim out.
(04:10):
But there is no way he didn'thave anything to do with this.
I don't believe it for a second.
And they're saying that thetranslator cut out Otani's
management, his money, people,all of that stuff.
So he had unfettered cut outotani's management, his money,
people, all of that stuff.
So he had unfettered access tootani's account and did whatever
(04:31):
he wanted and there was nooversight.
When this broke in march, I saidthree things.
One, it was otani who wasinvolved in the betting and he
was a gambler.
I didn't know about, all right,I didn't know that that was the
case.
No-transcript or three.
(04:55):
He is the most naive person inthe world, gullible.
And this guy really stole fromme and no knowledge.
I think it's probably somewherein the middle of two and three.
I don't think Otani is naive.
I don't know that he wasbetting, but I can tell you
right now, I just find it hardto believe that a guy making 25
(05:19):
bets every day for 750 straightdays, that his best friend, the
guy who spent every wakingmoment with him, didn't know
something was going on.
And again, not to say thatOtani bet on games, not to say
that he was betting on baseball,but it's just, it's too, too
weird.
And here's the other thing youknow, I bought shoes at zappos
(05:44):
last week.
My credit card buzzed me andsaid you're spending money,
brian, on something that isn'tnormal.
Is this a real charge?
I paid a bill.
Um, what did I pay?
I paid, oh, for this podcast,for the website I host this
podcast on.
I paid a year subscription.
(06:06):
My credit card got lockedbecause I didn't you know, it
didn't recognize a $200-whatevercharge and it locked my credit
card, recognized a 200 andwhatever dollar charge and it
locked my credit card.
So you know the bank isallowing all of this money to
take place.
Otani is never directly involved.
His money.
People aren't directly involved.
(06:28):
Now, if he 16 million dollars,if he took from otani, otani
only made about $40 million insalary with the Angels.
Okay, he made a lot more inendorsements.
I don't know how did he notcheck his bank account?
I mean, literally, it justdoesn't add up.
(06:49):
Did Otani?
I don't care that the guy wasstealing from him, I don't care
that he may not have authorizedthe payments and maybe the guy
was falsifying the permission tothe bank about transferring
money.
But did Ohtani never look athis bank account?
Did he never see that millionsof dollars was missing?
Did he not see that $500,000 isgoing out here and $2,000 is
(07:14):
going out here?
Just something doesn't add upup the math ain't mathing.
16 million.
Um, he stole from otani.
He was 40 million in debt.
Where's the other 24 milliondollars?
Or, excuse me, where's theother 26 million dollars?
It doesn't make any sense.
Um, also, how is the bookieallowing a translator who makes
(07:41):
roughly three hundred thousanddollars a year?
How is he giving um on justjust unlimited amount of credit,
like I don't get that.
He had unfettered access tootani's account.
He's given unlimited credit bya bookie.
Bookies aren't really known atthat level for being nice to
letting it slide.
(08:02):
This ain't the bookie you usedin college betting on the USC
game for you know $200.
Okay, this is high-end gamblingstakes where you're talking.
You know thousands of bets overthe course of time.
I just don't get it.
24 bets a day for 26 straightmonths.
(08:25):
I don't know, it's just.
It's.
How is he given that type ofcredit line?
That is what I don't understand.
And Otani not finding out?
How does he not know?
How do his handlers not know?
Isn't someone watching hisaccount?
(08:46):
I mean, he has got to be themost naive person in the world
if he doesn't know that hismoney was missing.
I don't think Otani wasoblivious.
If he is, he's naive.
(09:07):
What bookie taking that type ofaction?
It's just a bookie taking thattype of action not knowing if
there's someone behind this thatcan finance the deal is why I
find this all hard to believe.
I don't think a bookie who ismaking bets of millions of
(09:29):
dollars $182 million.
The bookie was just allowingthese bets to happen out of the
goodness of his heart.
If he didn't think in his heartof hearts, the guy could pay it
back.
I mean, you're talking $182million in losing bets and $142
million in winning bets.
(09:50):
That's a $40 million difference.
He allegedly took $14 millionfrom Otani speaking of Mizohara
the translator, so there's $26million of.
How did he pay it back?
Did he not pay it back?
Is he in debt?
And here's the other thingpeople, I love the fact that
this guy made 19,000 bets.
(10:11):
Right, his translator, mizohara, made 19,000 bets, bets, and
not one of them was on baseball.
Are you buying that?
Seriously, are you buying a guywho's making 19,000 bets?
Who's making let's run the math, because I wrote this down 25
(10:33):
bets every day for 750 straightdays?
Are you buying that?
Not one of those bets was onbaseball.
I mean, first of all, when youget that much in debt, you bet
on anything.
I mean you bet on, you know you, you literally will bet on.
Uh, do I take a pee or a poopthe next morning?
Um, you know, is you know whattime does the mail come?
(10:58):
I mean, that's a bet.
Is it before 10 or after 10?
I'll bet you $50.
It's after 10 am.
Like people that have that muchof a gambling problem are
betting on any and everything,and I just 19,000 bets, but we
never bet on baseball.
But you're $40 million in debt.
(11:18):
Like does it add up?
Just, let's just peel this allaway for a second.
This doesn't add up, it justdoesn't make sense.
And it's the Feds and MajorLeague Baseball and the Dodgers
and even the Angels to a degree.
They've all just pushed thisdirt under the rug.
Okay, they have all basicallyjust said well, otani didn't
(11:45):
know about it, the guy stolefrom him.
End of story.
Otani makes a statement throughhis new translator, never
answers any questions, theproblem just goes away.
Like he's never had to face themusic, he's never had to face
questions on all of this, and Ifind that a little just a little
bit of a slap in the face.
(12:06):
Like face the music dude.
Your translator stole from you.
Your best friend stole from you.
You haven't answered anyquestions to the fans.
Forget the media.
The media is just.
They're just a go-betweenbetween the fans and the player.
Now, in this day and age age,he can do some on his own
twitter.
He can.
(12:26):
He can put out a statementhimself.
He hasn't done that.
So it's like where is hisexplanation?
Why hasn't he answered anyquestions?
Why isn't he answered questionsthe fans are asking?
Because, I'm sorry, I have alot of questions.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you shohei otani bet on
baseball.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you Shohei Ohtani bet on
(12:48):
baseball.
I'm not sitting here todaytelling you that Shohei Ohtani
bet on his own team or bet on,you know, pitched bad on purpose
to get money.
I'm just telling you that thereis a lot of weirdness with this
case.
There's a lot of money involved.
There's $180 million ofgambling.
I mean, is that the number Ilooked at?
(13:09):
Yeah, there's 182 milliondollars of gambling that someone
did that lost and they won 142.
They won 142, gambled 182, 142,so they lost 40 million dollars
.
That was going on for threeyears.
How otani didn't know some ofthat money was missing and
(13:30):
remember it wasn't the stolenmoney, it was the money he was
using to finance it, to make thebets.
So I think a lot of people aregetting this like twisted.
Oh we, you know he only missed16 million or 14 million,
whatever it was that he tookfrom from otani, but he was
using otani's money to gambleevery day, like that money.
(13:55):
I mean that money was not 19000 wagers, 25 that's a day for
750 straight days.
And nobody like that.
Money's coming out of otani'saccount and he's not noticing
that because the guy only made300 000 a year.
He didn't have the money to betthat type of cash on games.
(14:19):
He would have lost his moneyquick In two months.
He wouldn't have been able todo that for 750 days.
So remember, otani was thismoney he was stealing from.
Otani was financing his bets.
And again, it's just, it doesn'tadd up.
I don't understand it.
(14:40):
There's too many questions Tome.
It's like Otani is the goldenboy of baseball.
He's the $700 million man.
He's the face of baseball.
He's finally an internationalface, someone that the sport can
get behind to maybe grow thegame.
And this happens.
Major League Baseball haspushed this under the rug.
The Dodgers have pushed itunder the rug.
(15:00):
I'm not saying the feds are inon it, because I think the end
of the day, they're just tryingto bring down this gambler and
whoever gets in the way gets inthe way or not.
The gambler, this bookie,they're trying to bring him down
.
That's what the investigationcenter is on, but there's just a
lot of weirdness going on here.
The math ain't mathing people.
So that's my thoughts on Otaniand his translator.
(15:25):
Again, total loss is $40.7million.
He allegedly took $14 millionfrom Otani.
Where's the other $26 million?
How is this guy using Otani'saccounts for three years and
Otani didn't know money wasmissing?
Dude, I know $37 of ouraccount's missing.
(15:46):
You know I got double chargedfor something.
I'm like wait, because I do myfinances.
And I find it hard to believethat a Major League Baseball
player even if Mizohara wasdirectly involved in the
accounts and it was his name onit he was falsifying the records
(16:07):
.
How does Otani not have anaccountant?
How does he not have someonewho's managing the big picture?
That's not his translator,that's not on the field with him
.
Quote unquote I mean, I havethat, you have that.
I have an accountant who's notin the day-to-day trenches with
me, who's looking at big picture, who's analyzing the funds,
what's coming in, what's goingout.
How's nobody seeing that?
(16:28):
And if nobody saw that, hiscamp, everyone associated with
him and his money deserves to befired yesterday.
What on God's green earth isgoing on?
What in the hell in Troy isthat?
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
People, the math ain't mathing.
So again, a lot of weirdnessgoing on.
(16:48):
Not saying he bet on baseball,not saying he threw games, but
for him not to know, and histeam to not know, that money had
been taken from him on a dailybasis for three years.
It just doesn't add up.
So that's it.
That is SoundOff with SinkOffhere today.
Hope you enjoyed this episode.
Love to get your thoughts onthis.
(17:10):
Prove me wrong.
It's weird, whatever you think.
It's just I've asked relevantquestions.
I don't think my questions andmy hypothesis is that far out of
line, but I'd love to hear yourthoughts.
Love to get your.
You know whether you agree withme here.
You have other ideas?
(17:32):
Love to hear them.
Don't forget.
Soundoff with SyncOff is back.
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YouTube.
You can see the video onyoutube as well as spotify, and
if you have any suggestions,don't hesitate to shoot me an
email, brian, atsinkoffrealtygroupcom.
(17:53):
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