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Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, Thanks for listening. If you haven't listened to

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Speaker 1: our last episode, the Talented Mister eBay, you might want

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Speaker 1: to start with that one. This episode is essentially an

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Speaker 1: beginning of that episode, we recommend that you listen to

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Speaker 1: the episode before that normal Japanese woman and you don't

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Speaker 1: But together, these first three episodes of Dodger Blue Dream

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Speaker 1: create a kind of portrait of a moment, a gambling

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Speaker 1: scandal that erupted out of the Dodgers' clubhouse on the

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Speaker 1: first day of the twenty twenty four baseball season. As

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Speaker 1: Dodger Blue Dream is a documentary made in real time,

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Speaker 1: we didn't plan for these first three episodes to be

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Speaker 1: a mini series on this event, but it turns out

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Speaker 1: that's what they are. Thanks again for listening. Let's get

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Speaker 1: back to this one. It's an overcast day in LA

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Speaker 1: and it feels somehow appropriate. The only thing that eclipsed

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Speaker 1: of OJ Simpson. Friday, April twelfth, twenty twenty four. All right,

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Speaker 1: just passing city hall. This is basically in little Tokyo.

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Speaker 1: I see in Otani, Jersey. There's a mural of Otani

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Speaker 1: and there it is lots of TV trucks one, two, three, four, five,

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Speaker 1: Looks like a fair amount of Japanese media. I got

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Speaker 1: Ball Federal Building, downtown Los Angeles. Are you all here

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Speaker 1: for the epay? We come from near and far to

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Speaker 1: bear witness our lanyards drooping heavily with our press credentials.

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Speaker 1: The hallway cannot contain our numbers. But it is our

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Speaker 1: center of baseball's gambling scandal, who will emerge for the

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Speaker 1: first time since disappearing into the Dodgers' clubhouse in Seoul,

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Speaker 1: March twentieth. A bailiff appears in shouts, admonishments, no phones,

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Speaker 1: the murmur of journalism, gossip, and then the room goes

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Speaker 1: silent and there's Epey and he's in shackles. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks. I'm a writer, podcaster,

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Speaker 1: and diehard Dodger fan, born and raised in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Dodgers are the story of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty four baseball season, and this is a documentary about

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Speaker 1: a year we will never forget.

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Speaker 2: It. Time for Dodger.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode, The Complaint against Epe Thursday, April eleventh, twenty

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Speaker 3: Earlier, mister Mitsuhara, a Japanese language interpreter, began working as

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Speaker 1: United States Attorney Martin Estrada addressed television cameras from a

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Speaker 3: The evidence we've gathered over the past few weeks has

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Speaker 3: demonstrated that, in total, mister Mitujara stole over sixteen million

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Speaker 3: dollars from mister Otani's account in order to pay for

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Speaker 1: Ipe turned himself in and he was released on a

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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars bond and some conditions, including he

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Speaker 1: not make contact with Shohei Otani in any way, and

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Speaker 3: We legend a complaint mister Mituhara committed fraud on a

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Speaker 1: These are still only allegations. Ipe is innocent until proven

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Speaker 1: Times reported that he was in negotiations to enter a

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Speaker 1: And as for show Hay.

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Speaker 3: Mister Otani is considered a victim in this case.

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Speaker 1: One'll pitch smacked off center field. That's got a sense

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Speaker 1: this is gone, Suhtani Ute Baton. After watching Epe enter

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Speaker 1: But in this episode show he takes a back seat

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Speaker 3: We legend a complaint. The criminal complaint was filed today

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Speaker 1: The complaint is like a film script. It's even printed

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Speaker 1: Was he telling lies about Showhead? Could EPA have been

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Speaker 1: Mizuhara answers all these questions and then some. It is

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Speaker 1: authored by Chris Seymour, a special agent at the IRS.

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Speaker 1: Mister Seymour, it's a good script. I mean it needed

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Speaker 1: And then we present it in our own inimitable Dodger

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Speaker 1: Blue Dream style. You get it. This is a big one,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna use the complaint a lot, but I'm

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Speaker 4: Good show hey, high fly ball to the corner, goes

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Speaker 4: my goodness, Oh my goodness, show hey, Tony.

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Speaker 1: What can't he do? Show hayes first MVP season in

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Speaker 1: it was possible to excel as a hitter and as

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Speaker 2: Couple more strikeouts or show hey, look at that. He

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Speaker 1: He stole a bag. In twenty twenty one, Show hay

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Speaker 1: By the All Star break, he had thirty three home

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Speaker 1: Sosa or Bonds ever did Andy had a three forty

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Speaker 2: Welcome every one of the twenty twenty one T Mobile

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Speaker 2: Home Run Derby, perhaps the most anticipated home run derby ever.

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Speaker 2: All of that has to do with the headliner, who

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Speaker 1: The All Star Game twenty twenty one. Show Hay is

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Speaker 1: American League. And at this moment, with all eyes on him,

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Speaker 1: show he wanted his buddy with him. Ebey the guy

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Speaker 1: behind the guy. This is the guy behind him. This

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Speaker 5: It just was announced he won't catch for show Hay

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Speaker 1: What fun moment that doesn't be for him?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you wonder what the reason for that is, if

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Speaker 3: there's truly a translation situation, But yeah, what a unique

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Speaker 1: The translation situation, it could have been the name of

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Speaker 1: eBay and Show Hay's boy band. Ebey was always there

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Speaker 1: since Japan, before Show he made the leap to Major

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Speaker 5: After a fantastic august Is Blake Snell, twenty eight year old,

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Speaker 1: On September seventh, twenty twenty one, the Angels were in

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Speaker 1: a way to win without their superstar. That is Ball four.

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Speaker 2: In The first base wunner to reach is David Fletcher.

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Speaker 1: As he enters the dugout. After scoring what would be

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Speaker 1: the deciding run, Angels and fielder David Fletcher gives eBay

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Speaker 1: Fletcher and e Bay will sit at a card table

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Speaker 1: at a San Diego hotel with none other than Matthew Boyer,

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Speaker 1: the man who was under investigation for running an allegedly

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Speaker 1: this night, the OC Register reported that Ipe and Matthew

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Speaker 1: the guy you need to be betting with, and introduced

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the night eBay and Matthew

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Speaker 1: September eighth, twenty twenty one, Fletcher goes over four in

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Speaker 1: first hears from Bookmaker II. An associate of Boyers messaged

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Speaker 1: him and provided him with an account number, password, and

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Speaker 1: URL for a website, the online home of Matthew Boyer's

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Speaker 1: allegedly illegal gambling book, and eBay apparently starts betting right away.

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Speaker 1: Picture a desk calendar. It reads September eighth, September eighth,

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Speaker 1: The pages fly off, filling the screen. The screen clears,

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Speaker 1: and now it's September twenty fourth, September twenty fourth. Amazed

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Speaker 1: at how many bets you can place in that time.

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Speaker 1: The complaint says that Epe made approximately nineteen thousand wagers

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Speaker 1: between December twenty twenty one and January twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: That's nearly twenty five bets per day on average, every

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Speaker 1: means an average bet amount of roughly twelve thousand, eight

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Speaker 1: a month after EPE met Matthew Boyer. He's already had

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Speaker 1: more than enough time to get into a little trouble. Friday,

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Speaker 1: September twenty fourth, Epay messages Boyer's associate quote, I've just

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Speaker 1: been messing around with soccer. There's games on twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven. Lol. I took UCLA, but they lost outright.

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Speaker 1: This is our first glimpse of Epay's texting style, and

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Speaker 1: it seems worthy of attention. It's our primary source. The

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Speaker 1: How does the withdrawing and paying work, Epay writes to

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Speaker 1: meaning pick a number you want to see settle at.

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Speaker 1: Either way, A month passes, the season ends.

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Speaker 7: All right, good evening everyone. I'm Steven Nelson from will

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Speaker 7: Be Network. Just want to welcome you all to the

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Speaker 7: twenty twenty one World Series.

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Speaker 1: It's October twenty sixth, Game one of the World Series

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Speaker 1: Braves Versus Astros in Houston, a bunch of television cameras.

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Rob Manfred on Show Hayes left Ipe on show

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Speaker 1: Hayes right.

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Speaker 7: Most outstanding memory that we will have from twenty twenty

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Speaker 7: one was an individual performance that this game has never

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Speaker 7: seen before and, to be honest, may never see again.

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Speaker 1: The Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award has only been given out

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Speaker 1: to sixteen players. The last to receive this honor before

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Speaker 7: Hetha Neongld today, thatsh my style.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Steven.

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Speaker 1: Nice chat with the Jim music. You're gonna get later. Okay, yeah, I'll.

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Speaker 2: Leave it.

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Speaker 1: Here. E Bay is once again sharing the spotlight with

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Speaker 1: his friend. As the ward is not given out every year,

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Speaker 1: so I know how special it is, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: fully sure if I really deserve it, but mister Rappi

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Speaker 1: is going to give it to me.

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Speaker 7: I will.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he deserves it, he does deserve I'm pretty sure.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: Wednesday, October twenty seventh, the following day, or maybe later

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Speaker 1: World series, Bookmaker two messages e Bay again. Bookmaker one

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Speaker 1: asks me to reach out to you dot dot dot.

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Speaker 1: He sees you playing and wants to settle this by tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I can meet you or one of his runners can.

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Speaker 1: This text comes in on a Wednesday, not on a

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Speaker 1: Sunday when payments are due. This was a special text

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Speaker 1: to Epey, who was already falling in a hole, already behind.

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Speaker 1: How far behind we can't say, but he must have

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Speaker 1: been pretty far behind. Because October twenty seventh, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: less than two months after Epe first met Matthew Boyer,

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Speaker 1: is a turning point. The day that Epe crosses a line,

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Speaker 1: a rubicon of sorts. And to understand exactly how we

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Speaker 1: need to make a brief detour, It all has to

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Speaker 1: process of re locating to the US with eBay and

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Speaker 1: according to the complaint, Mizuhara accompanied victim A, that's show

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Speaker 1: Hey to bank a branch in Arizona to assist Victim

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Speaker 1: A in opening the X five to eight for eight

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Speaker 1: account details totally normal. By the way, part of the

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Speaker 1: job description for an interpreter ebe would always help the

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Speaker 1: guy Jen players set up their accounts in Japan, and

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Speaker 1: Shohy's salary payments as an international superstar. He's got bank

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Speaker 1: accounts in Japan, He's got some in the US. He

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Speaker 1: the Angels to play baseball, and IBE helped him set

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Speaker 1: and now from the complaint quote. Between twenty eighteen and

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Speaker 1: October twenty seventh, twenty twenty one, there was no online

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Speaker 1: access activity for the X five eight four eight account. However,

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Speaker 1: on October twenty seventh, twenty twenty one, the same day

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Speaker 1: Bookmaker two messaged Mizuhara that Bookmaker one wanted to settle

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Speaker 1: Mizuhara's losses, the X five eight four eight account was

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Speaker 1: accessed through the internet for the first time since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 1: This is the moment we can pinpoint the day circle

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Speaker 1: it on a calendar. Just a month after he meets

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Speaker 1: Matthew Boyer. This is the moment Ipe first takes action

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Speaker 1: on a an idea he's had for we don't know

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Speaker 1: getting that award wherever he did it, Ibe tries to

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Speaker 1: log into this bank account, maybe just to see how

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Speaker 1: Should I do this? Bookmaker one asks me to reach

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Speaker 1: out to you. He sees you playing and wants to

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Speaker 1: settle this by tomorrow. And again, this is the day

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Speaker 1: after Game one of the World Series when Showhy got

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Speaker 1: that award. I'm back in Anaheim now, Ibe responds, I

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Speaker 1: can wire the amount to his bank account. Do you

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Speaker 1: know what bank he uses? I can wire the money.

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Speaker 1: This is the first time we see the word wire,

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Speaker 1: and we underline it's the wiring of money that ultimately

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Speaker 1: to get him for bank fraud. It's right there in

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Speaker 1: the summary of probable Cause in the complaint. Between November

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Speaker 1: of an operator of an illegal sports book bookmaker one.

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Speaker 1: In an interview, Shohe said that he did not authorize

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Speaker 1: these transfers, and the transfers from this account were made

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Speaker 1: from devices and IP addresses associated with Ipe Mizuhara, who

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Speaker 1: began losing substantial sums of money in late twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: but this continued until opening day of this year, on

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Speaker 1: it go on so long? How did epay pull it off?

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Speaker 1: What happened? Thursday, October twenty eighth. The following day, Bowyer's associate,

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Speaker 1: Bookmaker I, follows up with Epay. Bookmaker one asked me

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Speaker 1: if you wired? I told him I wasn't sure. Let

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Speaker 1: me know so I can tell him. No response from Epay,

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Speaker 1: at least not in the complaint. Thursday turns to Friday,

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Speaker 1: Friday turns to Saturday. Saturday turns to Sunday, Halloween, October

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Speaker 1: any other day except that it's Sunday. Time to settle up.

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Speaker 1: Please tell Bookmaker one, I apologize for the delay. Dot

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Speaker 1: dot dot dot. I've never done a wire transfer dot

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Speaker 1: Born in Japan, grew up in the US, lived in

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Speaker 1: Either way, it will take a lot of effort and

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Speaker 1: doing for Epa to figure out how to send his

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Speaker 1: The email address has a similar format and numbering to

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Speaker 1: two days later, Hey, Bookmaker one asked me if it

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Speaker 1: and it keeps getting canceled. Dot dot dot dot. Sorry

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Speaker 1: two more days later, the bank wire keeps getting canceled. Friday,

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Speaker 1: November fifth, The following day, PayPal is not working. Saturday

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Speaker 1: November sixth, the wire did not work. Dot dot dot dot.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a bank a account by any chance?

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Speaker 1: I think it's easier if it's the same bank. Bookmaker

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Speaker 1: two gives Epay an account number, but three days later,

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Speaker 1: Dot dot dot dot dot. This is super stressing. This

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the first wire from account X five

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Speaker 1: eight four eight is sent to an associate of Matthew Boyer.

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Speaker 1: eBay tells Bookmaker two that he was quote able to

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Speaker 1: send forty K. I can only send forty k at

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Speaker 1: a time. On November fifteenth, twenty twenty one, the X

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Speaker 1: Chris Seymour, the author of the complaint, writes, I believe

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Speaker 1: this was the first unauthorized wire transfer from the X

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Speaker 1: is a success. It gets the bookies off his back,

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Speaker 1: it settles his debts, but it is also his downfall.

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Speaker 1: It is the thing that he lies about the law

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Speaker 1: he breaks, and it's what enables him to continue betting

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Speaker 1: And it's a paper trail. This is what the federal

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Speaker 1: bank fraud with a maximum sentence of thirty years in prison.

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Speaker 1: On November fifteenth, he tells Bookmaker two that he'll send

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Speaker 1: It's the holidays. If Epe made any resolutions about quitting

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Speaker 1: gambling with Matthew Boyer, they lasted approximately one day. On

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Speaker 1: I lost it all. Bookmaker two response, Bookmaker one bumped

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Speaker 1: slaying and illegal bookmaking to refer to increasing the credit

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Speaker 1: hopes of making up some of their losses. Bumps are

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Speaker 1: one method illegal bookmakers used to keep gamblers engaged while

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Speaker 1: Ebe's credit with Matthew Boyer has been bumped an additional

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Speaker 1: January second, twenty twenty two, and it's also the moment

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Speaker 1: Can you ask Bookmaker one if he'll bump me fifty K?

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Speaker 1: That will be my last one for a while if

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Speaker 1: I lose it. February first, another two weeks later, he

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Speaker 1: February second, Ebe calls the bank. He identifies himself as

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00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,280
Speaker 1: show Hay, and he says that he's trying to send

433
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: this money for a car loan, but the amount must

434
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: have been too much. The bank denies his request and

435
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:39,440
Speaker 1: they freeze online transactions for the X five eight four

436
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: eight account. Later that day, Ebe calls the bank again.

437
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: He gets a different bank employee on the phone regarding

438
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: the suspension of online banking activity on the X five

439
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: eight four to eight account that was imposed earlier that day.

440
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: He pretends to be show Hay again. The bank employee

441
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: asks him security challenge questions, biographical information about show Hay

442
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: as a result of this call, Mizuhara was able to

443
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,240
Speaker 1: successfully lift the online banking suspension on the X five

444
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: eight four eight account. The talented mister eBay pulled it off.

445
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: He impersonated show Hey and got away with it. After

446
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: this phone call, things change. eBay has access to more

447
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: money than before. On February fourth, eBay messages Bookmaker two,

448
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: the last transaction got canceled dot dot dot. I went

449
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: to the teller. Everything should be sorted out. I made

450
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: another transfer for three hundred k today since I lost

451
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 1: the other one hundred k already. Later that day, eBay

452
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: messages again wire went through another transfer for three hundred k. Today.

453
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 1: The numbers epay is paying back to Matthew Boyer are skyrocketing.

454
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: And this is just the beginning. With Boyer bumping geepay

455
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: down into a deeper and deeper hole of debt. By

456
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: impersonating show Hey to the bank, eBay has unlocked access

457
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: to millions of dollars all the money show Hey has

458
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: made as a major leaguer. And you'd think that would

459
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: be an impossible amount of money to go through. But

460
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: a little over three weeks later, on February twenty eighth,

461
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: eBay is having cash flow problems yet again, And at

462
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,719
Speaker 1: this point in our story, a new character makes a

463
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: big entrance. Hi, I hope you had a great weekend.

464
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: Otherwise still hasn't been received. Can you just wire the

465
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: two hundred This is the very first text from Matthew

466
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: Boyer himself to Epay that we see in the complaint.

467
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Bookmaker two disappears. Communications from this point forward go between

468
00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: Boyer himself and e Bay. And why would Boyer himself

469
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: step in? Maybe Epay is becoming a top client. Boyer

470
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: than messages Epay again. He has an offer something new.

471
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: I will give you the free play that I was

472
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: going to give book Maker two since you had such

473
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: a rough stretch. Please let me know or send me

474
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: screenshot when Wire sent to quote the complaint. Free play

475
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: generally refers to betting where a gambler is not required

476
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: to pay for any betting losses. In other words, free

477
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: play means you can keep betting, keep playing. It's the proverbial.

478
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: This one's on the house. Here, have a drink. Oh,

479
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: and about your tab? Can you just wire the two

480
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: hundred two. We don't know how much free play Boyer

481
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: gave Epay, but in any case, it does not help.

482
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: March sixth, twenty twenty two. It's a Sunday, meaning payments

483
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: to Boyer are due that day. Anyway, you can bump

484
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: me a little bit. I will wire you my losses

485
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, if that's okay. I need to wait a

486
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: week to send another big wire. This means that Epay

487
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: last sent a quote big wire the previous Wednesday, so

488
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: four days earlier, maybe three hundred thousand dollars to pay

489
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: off a week's gambling debt. It means that over those

490
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: four days he has gotten into the red again, and

491
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: so today Sunday, he's asked Boyer for a bump because

492
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: he can't wait three more days until the next Wednesday

493
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 1: to wire the money and unlock his credit to keep betting.

494
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: He has full access to a bank account with millions

495
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: and millions of dollars in it. He's wiring as much

496
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: money as is permitted, as often as is permitted, and

497
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: still it's not enough to keep up with his habit.

498
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: So he asks for another bump. Anyway you can bump

499
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 1: me a little bit next the following Thursday, March tenth,

500
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: In one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the complaint,

501
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: Ebey tries to self impose limitations on his own gambling

502
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: because nobody else is putting limits on him, and the

503
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: whole is getting deeper and deeper and deeper. eBay messages

504
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyer, thank you. Can you put in one hundred

505
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: K instead of three hundred K? Boyer responds, you meanw

506
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: credit to one hundred. Epe replies yeah, I'll get too

507
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: reckless with three hundred. You might be thinking how could

508
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: this guy be so unlucky to always lose? Well, he

509
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: doesn't always lose. On May eighteenth, twenty twenty two, Boyer

510
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: messages Epay confirming that you receive the ACCH that's the

511
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: wire transfer for the forty seven two hundred and sixty

512
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: Also just confirming you still want me to wire more

513
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,000
Speaker 1: before I do. I see your down so lmk T

514
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 1: y bud. Epe responds, yes, I received it, thank you

515
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: very much, and no, you do not need to wire

516
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: anymore since I'm down again. Haha. On this same day,

517
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 1: an account under Epe's name at the same bank as

518
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,399
Speaker 1: the X five eight four eight account received a wire

519
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: transfer for forty seven thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars.

520
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,839
Speaker 1: The shows that Epe's winnings were deposited into his own

521
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: separate account, not into the X five to eight for

522
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: eight account show Hayes account, which was used to pay

523
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: down Epay's debts, and if IPE really did steal sixteen

524
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: million dollars out of this account, as he is alleged

525
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: to have done, that still would not pay down his

526
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: entire debt to Matthew Boyer. In all, Ibe would win

527
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: over one hundred and forty million dollars betting with Boyer

528
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: on sports, but he would lose one hundred and eighty

529
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: million dollars. That's a net loss of over forty million dollars.

530
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:54,799
Speaker 1: And according to the complaint, which is based on what

531
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: was on Epay's phone and what was on show Hay's phone,

532
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: and also an excelsor readsheet with the betting history for

533
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: Ebe's account with Matthew Boyer, the records quote do not

534
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: reflect any bets on baseball games. But in the meantime,

535
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: Ebe had a front row seat watching one of the

536
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 1: best baseball players to ever walk the Earth show, Hey Otani.

537
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,320
Speaker 5: So we got a late start out to the bump

538
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 5: for his warm up pitches because he was just at

539
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 5: the plate. He's a number three hitter for the Angels

540
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 5: or Tommy three and two, but it's the last one.

541
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: On May eighteenth, twenty twenty two, Show Hay was being

542
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: Show Hay. He was on the mound against the Texas Rangers,

543
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: and he was batting third behind Mike Trout, one of

544
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: the best baseball players alive.

545
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 5: Got him slider back to backstrikeouts three on the night.

546
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: So far for Otani, And let's pause on show Hey

547
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: for just a moment. People are wondering, like, did he

548
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: do anything? You know, what he do? What did he know?

549
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: He had to be involved, right, I mean he had

550
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: to be and I see where that's coming from. But also,

551
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: guy's a baseball player. I mean his whole life is

552
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: about protecting his focus and his dedication to this day

553
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 1: in day out craft and sleeping ten hours a day

554
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: plus naps. You think that between innings this night, he

555
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: was going back into the dugout in some sort of

556
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: secret code, communicating with eBay about what bets he wanted placed,

557
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: how much to put on, what UCLA soccer game. IBE

558
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,800
Speaker 1: might have been betting on that night or that moment,

559
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: that minute. Twenty five bets a day, Joe hay is

560
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 1: worried about the game. And I think that that's how

561
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: these two best friends can sit next to each other

562
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: every waking moment of every day, and still this could

563
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: be transpiring because each has their obsession, and somehow the

564
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: whole thing's hanging together, you know, by a thread. And

565
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: it really is truly incredible how long it hung on

566
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: by a thread. After May twenty twenty two, the text

567
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,759
Speaker 1: messages from the Mizuhara phone show that Mizuhara had a

568
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: quote bad run. Despite owing Bookmaker over one million dollars

569
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:34,399
Speaker 1: in losses, Bookmaker one continually increased Mizuhara's betting limits during

570
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: a two month stretch in twenty twenty two, Ibe wired

571
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: one point two million dollars from the X five eight

572
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: four eight account on the same device he used to

573
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: place bets and that he used to log into his

574
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 1: own personal bank account. A bad run. That's a quote

575
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: from a text message that Boyer sends Ipe a year later,

576
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 1: in May twenty twenty three. So between May twenty twenty

577
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: two two and May twenty twenty three, we don't really

578
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: see much in the complaint, but we know it was

579
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: a bad run. We'll sum it up this way, I'm

580
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: terrible at this sports bedding thing. Huh. Epe texts at

581
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: some point, lol dot dot dot dot any chance you

582
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: can bump me again? Question mark, question mark, as you

583
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: know you don't have to worry about me not paying

584
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: two exclamation points. Ebe has got to be Boyer's top

585
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,120
Speaker 1: client at this point. Can you bump me a last?

586
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: Two hundred? He texts. Less than a month after that,

587
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,240
Speaker 1: I swear on my mom this will be the last

588
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: ask before I pay it off once I get back

589
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: to the States. Sorry for keep on asking dot dot

590
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,320
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. That message came in December, and Boyer

591
00:40:55,440 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: text back NP done bud us miss. As Ebe continues

592
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: his bad run, show Hay continues to make history. Somehow,

593
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: his twenty twenty two season was matching what he had

594
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: done in twenty twenty one. Shoey.

595
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 6: It takes the first pitch, it sinits it deep to

596
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 6: right field, Garcia drifting and it's gone. Otani sends another

597
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 6: one out to right field.

598
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,840
Speaker 4: That one does instead a chance to stick around.

599
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 5: Twelve putchouts for Showy Otani that ties a career high.

600
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: We're still not yet a full year into Epe's two

601
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: plus years of placing bets with Matthew, Boyer and Ipe

602
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: and show Hey are together day in and day out,

603
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days a year, according to eBay,

604
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: more than he spent with his wife. All that travel,

605
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: the time in the car, the plane, the bus, in

606
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: the gym, working out on the field, hitting off the tee,

607
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: in the cages, playing video games, eating bento boxes, anytime

608
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: show Hey wanted to talk in any detail with pretty

609
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: much anybody coaches, teammates, trainers, doctors, plus the requisite media availabilities,

610
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: even just sitting in the dugout during games. So many

611
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: hours of being in such close physical proximity, and there

612
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:31,720
Speaker 1: is this massive deception going on. How often did Ibe

613
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: come even a little bit close to getting found out?

614
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 1: How many times a day did he think about it

615
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: as he was looking his best friend in his eyes?

616
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 1: How many times did the plan change? How many times

617
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: did his intentions shift? What was it like to live

618
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: with this? And how many edits did he do to

619
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: the story he was telling himself to justify or attempt

620
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: to understand what he was doing, Continuing farther and farther

621
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: on this path of theft and deceit and harm and

622
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: how is it that sho Hay didn't notice anything that

623
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: he didn't see that anything was a miss with his friend,

624
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 1: not to mention what was going on with his own

625
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: bank account. Sho Hey Otani has a very strange relationship

626
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: to money, a distant relationship. The complaint shows Ibe was

627
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: just one of several people at least who knew more

628
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: about what was going on with show Hay's finances than

629
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: show Hay himself. The X five eight four eight account

630
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: was set up to receive show Hay's salary from Baseball exclusively.

631
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: Show Hay receives income from other sources like investments and

632
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: his countless endorsements, which make him as much as forty

633
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: to fifty million dollars every year, and all that money

634
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: was not going into this account. It was going into

635
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: a different account, or probably several accounts. There are American accounts,

636
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: Japanese accounts, and there are different people looking at these

637
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 1: different accounts who are not show Hey. Chief among them

638
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: nez Ballelo, show Hay's agent. Show His domestic endorsements and

639
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: related income were managed by nez Blelo, according to this complaint,

640
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: as well as a professional bookkeeper, a financial manager, and

641
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: a professional tax preparer, and accountant. So that's four people

642
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: right there, all of whom are involved in managing show

643
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 1: his domestic endorsements alone. So suffice it to say that

644
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on, and there are a lot

645
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: of accounts and there's only one here that Ipa even

646
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 1: has access to. And remember Ipa is sho Hay's translator,

647
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: his interpreter. He is the thing between show Hay and

648
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,840
Speaker 1: the English speaking world show Hey inhabits, and that position

649
00:44:53,000 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: made him incredibly powerful. There's a photo of Nez, Showhy

650
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: and Ipe from when Showhy was introduced as a Dodger,

651
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: big toothy grin from Nez the agent with the slick

652
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: backed hair and the slightly sporty checked business suit. Then

653
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: there's show Hay in the middle, looking iconic in Dodger

654
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: blue for the very first time, and he's got the

655
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: tie on underneath with the business shirt because he just

656
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: took his jacket off because they just break out the

657
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: jersey and he puts it on for the first time

658
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: on stage. And then there's Epe three piece ties in

659
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: a half windsor slightly loose. These three guys were on

660
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: the top of the world seven hundred million dollars biggest

661
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: contract in sports history. They did this together, but of

662
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 1: course Ibe speaks Japanese and Nes does not. Nez Blelo

663
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: had an hour to make his pitch to the most

664
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: coveted bat and arm in Japan. According to an article

665
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: in Sports Business Journal, Actually, when factoring in the need

666
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 1: to run each sentence through an interpreter, Ballelo's introductory meeting

667
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,720
Speaker 1: was Shohei Otani in late twenty seventeen, included only about

668
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,920
Speaker 1: forty minutes of dialogue. I'm not exactly sure why he

669
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: chose me as his agent. Ballo said. Ipe was in

670
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: with Shoh first. He was already the guy behind the

671
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: guy before nez Ballelo came into the picture. Whether this

672
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: accorded Ipe some type of seniority in this situation, or

673
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: whether it was simply about the language barrier. Ipe had

674
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:46,080
Speaker 1: this angle, and in order to pull this off, Ipe

675
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: really had to work that. While nez Blelo Quote will

676
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: occasionally hire Japanese language interpreters to communicate with his clients,

677
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: he did not hire an interpreter to communicate with Shoh

678
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,760
Speaker 1: because eBay was always with him. It continues that Ne's

679
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: quote did not speak directly to Victim A or regularly

680
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 1: exchange text messages with Victim A. Instead, he relayed messages

681
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: to Victim A through Mezuhara. None of Shohei's agents, accountants,

682
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: or financial advisors spoke Japanese, so Shohey relied on epay

683
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: to translate conversations with those people. Ebe says that he

684
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: always accompanied sho Hay to meetings with accountants and financial advisors.

685
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: Because Victim A received income from a range of both

686
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: foreign and domestic sources, Victim A generally would not ask

687
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: Mezuhara to inquire about specific accounts, and instead would ask

688
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: Mezuhara to inquire with the above identified financial professionals for

689
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: an overall picture of his income or investment profile. So

690
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: I'm imagining something but late at night in the hotel,

691
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: when they're meeting up and talking about you know what

692
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: else for tomorrow, show hayes getting a general picture about

693
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: what's going on with his financial accounts from epay or

694
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 1: you know, in the car between the hotel and the ballpark,

695
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: or maybe in a standing meeting where they talk about

696
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: these things specifically. But no matter the circumstances, he's getting

697
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: this information as an overview from Epay and Epay alone.

698
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: According to the complaint, victim A stated that he believed

699
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: that agent won that's Nez Blello, his accountants and financial

700
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: advisors were monitoring all of his accounts, including the X

701
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: five eight four eight account, and Epay is doing everything

702
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:44,760
Speaker 1: that he can to keep them away from that account.

703
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: According to the complaint, nez Ballelo asked Epay on quote

704
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,759
Speaker 1: multiple occasions about the account. Ipey told Nez that the

705
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: account was quote private and that Shohey did not want

706
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 1: anyone else to monitor the account. Nez Ballelo quote stated

707
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: that he did not confirm these representations directly with Shohy,

708
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: but stated that he had no reason not to believe eBay.

709
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,800
Speaker 1: It is a very small circle of trust around Shohei Otani.

710
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: Ibe was perhaps the most powerful person in this very

711
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: small and exclusive group. It would take somebody coming in

712
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: from the outside to even get close to uncovering the truth.

713
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: Three different people hired by Nez to help manage sho

714
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: Hay's finances were interviewed for the complaint. Each of them

715
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: had questions about the X five eight four eight account.

716
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: Two of them went to Nez. Nez told them that

717
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,880
Speaker 1: Ibe told him that Shohe wanted that account kept private,

718
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: and that was that. The third person identified only as

719
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: k F, an accountant hired to do sho Hay's domestic taxes,

720
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: has a different story. The complaint says that KF only

721
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: met show Hey once for an introductory meeting. After that

722
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: all communications went through nez Or Epey.

723
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 6: Fourteen wins and two hundred plus strikeouts as a pitcher.

724
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he also hits the baseball to a tune

725
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 6: of thirty four dingers for the Halos this season.

726
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: October twenty twenty two. IBE would place over two hundred

727
00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 1: and thirty one thousand dollars in bets on a single

728
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: day this month, and Shohy has just finished another historic season.

729
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: Sometime during this month, KF was scheduled to meet with

730
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: show Hay and Epay, but only eBay showed up. He

731
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: tells KF, who had only met show Hey once at

732
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 1: an introductory meeting, that show Hay is sick unable to attend.

733
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: KF asks epe directly about the X five eight four

734
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 1: eight account. Show Hay was risking filing incorrect tax returns

735
00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: if there is interest being accrued in the account, or

736
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: if there are any gifts made from the account at

737
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: an amount that would trigger tax reporting requirements. And Ebe responds,

738
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: show Hey wants that account kept private from everyone, and

739
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: that account does not bear interest and there were no

740
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: gifts from that account. Did KF suspect anything? What about

741
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: the other money people who also asked nez Bilelo about

742
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: this account? Maybe it's a moot point. Such was Abe's

743
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: power within the inner circle around show Hey. Even those

744
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: who came close to Shohy would only know how he

745
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: felt about something from eBay. This was key to Ebe's

746
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: deception and also the longevity of his lie, and so

747
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 1: it continued. Yeah, it's called the freeway series. They haven't

748
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: marked down. June twentieth, twenty twenty three. Angels versus Dodgers

749
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: in Anaheim st it two on pets and he swings

750
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: that misses like three epe messages Matthew Boyer, it looks

751
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: like I can only send five hundred per week. Does

752
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: five hundred a week work for you? A bit crowd

753
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 1: in a big hand for show Hey Otani.

754
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,319
Speaker 2: He is the reigning American League Player.

755
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: Of the Week, getting close to two years after he

756
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: started betting with Matthew Boyer Bank records show that Ebe

757
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: accessed the account again pretending to be Shohey on this day,

758
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: and the amounts have gotten incredibly high half a million

759
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: dollars a week. Smith and Caleb Ferguson is three to two.

760
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 1: Got it, strike three. He strikes out O Tani and Trout.

761
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: But somehow five hundred thousand dollars a week is not

762
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: enough to pay down Ebe's debts. Rojas is a read

763
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: on it, and that seals it a two nothing win

764
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: for LA. Two days later, on June twenty second, I

765
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: got my ass kicked again. Lol dot dot dot dot.

766
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: Any chance I can get one last bump? Okay, Bud.

767
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: I just want to be able to communicate with my

768
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: partners so he knows expectations. If I can assure him

769
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 1: that the minimum five hundred will be sent every week,

770
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,319
Speaker 1: I can do the bump to whatever you want. It's

771
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: just imperative that the five hundred is sent every week.

772
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: I have already paid out of my pocket to him

773
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:26,800
Speaker 1: half of the balance that is on the account, so

774
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: whatever is lost every week, I have to give him

775
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: half of the balance. That's why I'm asking these direct

776
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: important questions. June twenty third. The following day, I'm the worst. Lol,

777
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: can't catch a break? Can I get one last bump?

778
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: I swear this is going to be my last until

779
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: I get the balance down significantly. I promise this will

780
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: be the last bump for a while. Okay, NP done?

781
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: June twenty fourth, Another day later, I have a problem.

782
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 5: Lol.

783
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,439
Speaker 1: Can I get one last bump? This one is for real,

784
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: last one, for real?

785
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:14,320
Speaker 3: Done?

786
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: I have the same problem, crying, laughing emoji. To be

787
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: honest with you, EPI, as long as you can guarantee

788
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: the five hundred every Monday, I'll give you as much

789
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: as you want, because I know that you're good for it.

790
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: Time keeps passing. Another baseball season ends. In October twenty

791
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,879
Speaker 1: twenty three, Federal agents raid Matthew Boyer's home in San

792
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: Juan Capistrano. They take electronic devices, computers, and phones. Bowyer

793
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: is under investigation, but he has not been charged and

794
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: he is not in custody. He still expects Ipe to

795
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: pay him back.

796
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 5: Sho hey Otani receiving his second American League MVP award

797
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 5: a second unanimous honor as a matter of fact.

798
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:05,040
Speaker 1: Back November seventeenth, twenty twenty three, show Hay's second unanimous

799
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: al MVP Award was just announced. He gives an interview

800
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: about it from his home while holding his dog, A

801
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: dog whose name we don't know, who will become an

802
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: Internet sensation. Fully thank this. Obviously, I wanted to Winday

803
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 1: last year, but on this day, Disney Plus releases show

804
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: Hey Otani Beyond the Dream, at the very height of

805
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: the craze around show Hay's free agency. This is around

806
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: the same time everybody is speculating that Showhy is on

807
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: a plane to Toronto.

808
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 7: Hey he b.

809
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: It's two o'clock on Friday. I don't know why you're

810
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: not returning my calls. We're here in Newport Beach and

811
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 1: I see show Hey walking his dog. I'm just gonna

812
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,480
Speaker 1: go up and talk to him and ask him how

813
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,279
Speaker 1: I can get in touch with you. Since you are

814
00:55:55,320 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: not responding, Please call me back immediately. November nineteenth, two

815
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: days later. I'm going to be honest. I ended up

816
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,279
Speaker 1: losing a lot of money on Crypto the last couple

817
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: of years, and I took a huge hit obviously with

818
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: the sports too. Is there any way we can settle

819
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: on an amount. I've lost way too much on the site,

820
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: already dot dot dot. Of course, I know it's my fault.

821
00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 1: December fourteenth, show Hayes introductory press conference with the Dodgers.

822
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,280
Speaker 1: eBay is on stage with show Hay, Dodgers owner Mark Walter,

823
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:39,960
Speaker 1: Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedmans.

824
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:44,280
Speaker 5: Bilo show Hayes interpreter mostly show Hay's best buddy, close friend,

825
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 5: Ipe Mizuhara.

826
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 2: So his name is, That's a Japanese name.

827
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: In December fifteenth. The next day, I know you're busy,

828
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: but you need to show some respect. I put my

829
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: neck out there. Call me by tonight. I don't care

830
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 1: what time or how late it is. I'm so sorry, bro,

831
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. I really don't mean to disrespect you

832
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: at all. I promise, Dot dot dot. It's just been

833
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: super super busy, dot dot dot, and I've got other

834
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:14,879
Speaker 1: issues on the side going on to dot dot dot.

835
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: Everything has just been really, really tough recently. I don't

836
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: think you ever gave me the new bank account info

837
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. Could I please get that. I'm gonna

838
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 1: try to send something tomorrow. January sixth, twenty twenty four

839
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: Bowyer techts Epey, you're putting me in a position where

840
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: this is going to get out of control. If I

841
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: don't hear from you by the end of the day today,

842
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: it's going to be out of my hands. In his

843
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 1: original ESPN interview, Ibe described fearing for his safety and

844
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: that somebody might come to his house and it was

845
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: only at that moment, at his nadir, that he went

846
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:58,439
Speaker 1: to Shohey to plead for his help. Ibe later said

847
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: that he lied in that interview that he didn't go

848
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: to show Hey, but maybe the feeling in the situation

849
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: Iba was describing really did happen at this point. In

850
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 1: January twenty twenty four, eBay stops betting with Matthew Boyer.

851
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:17,880
Speaker 1: The wiring also stops, but during this period, according to

852
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 1: the complaint, eBay transferred more than three hundred and twenty

853
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars from the X five eight four to

854
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: eight account to eBay and Whatnot, a quote online marketplace

855
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: where users can purchase products eg. Baseball cards. In January,

856
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: as Shohey was doing off season workouts at Dodger Stadium,

857
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,520
Speaker 1: IPA asked a Dodger's employee if he would set aside

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Speaker 1: some packages that were going to be mailed to eBay

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Speaker 1: under an alias at Dodger Stadium. Multiple packages were received

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Speaker 1: there and set aside by a Dodger's employee. They were

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Speaker 1: addressed to j Minn, a name associated with an email

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Speaker 1: account and with websites on eBay's phone. These packages contain

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Speaker 1: baseball cards for players including Yogi Bearra, Juan Soto, and

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Speaker 1: Sho hey Otani. Chris Seymour, the author of the complaint,

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Speaker 1: says that he believes that Epe purchased these cards with

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Speaker 1: the intent to resell them. The FEDS also found boxes

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Speaker 1: and briefcases full of baseball cards inside a vehicle used

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Speaker 1: by eBay. With spring training underway, we saw more and

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Speaker 1: more of show Hey and more and more of e Bay.

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Speaker 1: She's a normal Japanese woman. March fourteenth, As the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: board a plane to Soul, Korea, sho hey Otani posts

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Speaker 1: a photo of himself with his wife, the woman whose

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Speaker 1: identity had been kept secret to that point. Also in

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Speaker 1: the photo Ebey and his wife, some Japanese lettering and

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Speaker 1: an exclamation point in the Korean flag emoji. The text

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Speaker 1: translates to can't wait. March seventeenth, twenty twenty four, Epe

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Speaker 1: and Boyer are sending encrypted messages using the signal app.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the call. Earlier, Epay writes to Boyer,

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Speaker 1: do you think there is any way to find out

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Speaker 1: the details of the article that's coming out on LA Times? Hey, Bud,

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what this idiot is printing or

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Speaker 1: trying to say.

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Speaker 2: A twenty twenty four Major League Baseball season set to

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Speaker 2: get underway.

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Speaker 1: We are at South Korea Soul to be exactly where

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Speaker 1: four four years ago on March twentieth opening day, ep

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Speaker 1: A message Boyer, have you seen the reports? Yes, but

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Speaker 1: that's all bullshit. Obviously you didn't steal from him. I

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Speaker 1: understand it's a cover job. I totally get it, and

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Speaker 1: eat A responds, technically I did steal from him. It's

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Speaker 1: all over for me. Based on the foregoing, there is

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Speaker 1: probable cause to believe that me Zuhara has committed bank

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Speaker 1: fraud in violation of eighteen USC Section one three four

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Speaker 1: four Subsection two, signed Chris Seymour, special Agent. Internal Revenue

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Speaker 1: Service investigators looked at ninety seven hundred pages of text

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Speaker 1: messages between Showhy and Ipey for the complaint. There was

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Speaker 1: no mention of sports betting. Dodger Blue Dream is written

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Speaker 1: and produced by Me Richard Parks. This episode was story

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Speaker 1: edited by Caitlin Esh with production assistants from Angel kataas

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Speaker 1: Original music in this episode by William Ryan Fritch and

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Speaker 1: by me. This entire episode is based on allegations made

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Speaker 1: by other people and reporting published by other outlets. If

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Speaker 1: you like Dodger Blue Dream, please help us spread the

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Speaker 1: word this episode. I plan to start talking about baseball

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Speaker 1: on this show. Thanks again for listening. Go Dodgers,