Ohtani's Ex-Interpreter's Bookmaker: 'Shohei Had Some Knowledge'

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00:00So, Ipe had to have made thousands of wagers with you, or near thousands of wagers, over the course of 20 months, essentially two years.

00:08The part for me as a gambler that I find hard to believe, just full transparency, is if he's losing all the time,

00:16there's one sport and one team that he knows more about than anyone else on the planet because he's there.

00:22He's in the locker room, he's in the dugout with the Angels at the time, before Shoei went to the L.A. Dodgers.

00:27The easiest way out for me would be to trade on that inside information.

00:34And if you're that desperate, that's the only thing that's hard for me to buy, that thousands of wagers in and losing $17 million net, net, net,

00:43at no point does he make a single wager on a baseball game or specifically an Angels game.

00:50Zero. Truly. None.

00:51Not one, I promise you. Not even any form of baseball, never mind the Angels.

00:55So he was disciplined enough not to break the cardinal sin of betting on a sport that he's employed by,

01:01but had no discipline at all in betting on everything and anything else.

01:06Yeah, but listen, I firmly believe that, as you know, because you've been down the road,

01:11I don't think when he started gambling, I think it was for fun and entertainment,

01:14and it got out of control very swiftly, right?

01:16Sure.

01:17And I believe that it just became a complete chase at that point.

01:20And even if I, let's just say he bet on five Angels games and won all five bets, it wouldn't have changed his...

01:26It wouldn't have gotten him out of the hole.

01:27No, they're $100,000 max wager.

01:29So, okay, he wins $500,000.

01:31Now he owes $24 million.

01:32Now it's $23,500.

01:33I don't believe he even thought of that, because there really is...

01:37You're correct.

01:38If you could bet $10 million and...

01:39Then he has a shot to maybe get out of the hole.

01:41Correct.

01:41And because of that, I think that that never crossed his mind, I'm just assuming.

01:45But the balance was so high, it was still out of control.

01:49And, you know, part of that's my fault.

01:51I allowed it to get out of control.

01:52Right.

01:52Well, you assumed he's being backed by one of the wealthiest athletes that you know, a public figure.

01:56Correct.

01:57Right?

01:57I never knew he was stealing the money until...

01:59You could look at my text message.

02:00I say to him, it's all a cover-up, because everything that everyone in the world assumes,

02:04I was too, Shohei Otani's gambling, somehow a part of this.

02:08And he says to me, this is the weirdest part of his text message.

02:11It's all online with the feds.

02:13He says to me, technically, the word technically is just very entertaining to me,

02:18because technically has a lot of connotation.

02:20So he says, technically, I screwed up.

02:23Well, obviously, he screwed up.

02:24But the point is, what does technically mean?

02:26Right.

02:26Either he stole the money or he didn't.

02:28So that's the part that still leaves me back to what I said earlier,

02:31that I do believe there was some knowledge.

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