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Speaker 1: third and this is Dodger Blue Dream. Happy Thanksgiving. We're

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Speaker 1: one step closer to Christmas, New Year's and then Spring Training.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, we are here to bring you the

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Speaker 1: second installment in our rebroadcast of our little mini series

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Speaker 1: on the eBay Misuhara gambling scandal that dominated the news

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Speaker 1: during Shoho Tani's first weeks as a Dodger back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. If you haven't listened to the first part,

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Speaker 1: we published it last week on this feed. That one's

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Speaker 1: called the talented mister eBay. We recommend that you start

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Speaker 1: there and then move on to this one. The complaint

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Speaker 1: against eBay. A complaint is basically a official core document

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Speaker 1: that details an investigation and the case against a defendant.

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Speaker 1: In this case, Ipe Mizuhara, shohe Otani's former translator, who

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Speaker 1: on the first game of the season in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: stolen millions and millions of dollars from one of Shohei

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Speaker 1: Otani's bank accounts in order to pay off debts that

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Speaker 1: he had accrued with an illegal bookmaker in Orange County.

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Speaker 1: Iliul gambling has been back in the news in the

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Speaker 1: baseball world. Emmanuel Classe and Luis Ortiz from the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Guardians have been accused of participating in a pitch fixing

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Speaker 1: some allegedly bad ombrace. Sports betting is getting way out

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Speaker 1: of control and it takes you to some dark places,

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Speaker 1: as it will in today's episode, the complaint against Epay.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. We'll be back after a

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Speaker 1: short break with the episode. And it's an overcast day

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Speaker 1: the death of OJ Simpson. Friday, April twelfth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: All right, just passing city hall. This is basically in

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Speaker 1: figure out how to park the Edward R. Royball Federal Building,

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Speaker 1: our lanyards drooping heavily with our press credentials. The hallway

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Speaker 1: our duty to see the man at the center of

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Speaker 1: since disappearing into the Dodgers' clubhouse in Seoul, South Korea,

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Speaker 1: after the first game of the season on March twentieth.

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Speaker 1: A bailiff appears in shouts, admonishments, no phones, nothing electronic.

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Speaker 1: of Justice. The scratch pencils on paper, the murmur of journalism, gossip,

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Speaker 1: and then the room goes silent, and there's Epey and

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Speaker 1: he's in shackles. Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks.

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Speaker 1: I'm a writer, podcaster, and diehard Dodger fan. Born and

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Speaker 1: raised in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Dodgers are the

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Speaker 1: story of the twenty twenty four baseball season, and this

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Speaker 1: is a documentary about a year. We will never forget.

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Speaker 2: Time for Dodger by.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode The complaint against Epay Thursday, April eleventh, twenty

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Speaker 2: 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 2: The evidence we've gathered over the past few weeks has

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

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

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Speaker 2: We legend the complaint mister Mintujara 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: One I'll pitch smacked off sider Field. That's got a

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Speaker 1: But in this episode, Shohey takes a back seat to Epey,

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Speaker 1: who is the protagonist of the complaint.

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Speaker 4: The criminal complaint was filed today a federal criminal complaint.

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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 show? He? Could epe have

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Speaker 1: Usa v. Mizuhara answers all these questions and then some.

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Speaker 1: It is authored by Chris Siemo, a special agent at

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Speaker 1: the Irs, Mister Seymour. It's a good script. I mean

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Speaker 1: it needed a fair amount of restructuring. Took a long

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

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

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Tony Rush, is it to deep

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Speaker 1: Show Hay's first MVP season in the major leagues the

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Speaker 5: Here's the O two pitch and that is a called

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, show Hay was on top of

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Speaker 1: baseball one hundred years before that. By the All Star break,

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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 Hey wanted his buddy with him. Epey, the guy

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Speaker 6: This is ape Otani's translator.

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Speaker 5: It just was announced he will catch for show Hay

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

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

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Speaker 1: Epey and show Hay's boy band, Ibe was always there

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

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Speaker 1: Angels eight to five loss against the Padres and Ebey.

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Speaker 1: According to the complaint, this is when he first hears

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: You're meaning pick a number you want to settle it

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Speaker 8: All right, good evening everyone. I'm Steven Nelson from will

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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, Hepe on Show

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Speaker 8: Most outstanding memory that we will have from twenty twenty

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

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Speaker 8: Uh hetha neongle day today.

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Speaker 1: Thatction my stuff. Thank you, Steven. Nice chat with the

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Speaker 1: Jim music. You're gonna get grated later. Okay, yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: leave it here. eBay is once again sharing the spotlight

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Speaker 8: As award is not given out every year, so I

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Speaker 1: Mister Rappi 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 1: That Wednesday, October twenty seventh, the following day or maybe

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Speaker 1: the World series, Bookmaker two messages EPA again. Bookmaker one

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Speaker 1: asked 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 Sunday,

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Speaker 1: when payments are due. This was a special text to Epay,

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Speaker 1: who is already falling in a hole, already behind. How

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

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

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Speaker 1: in March twenty eighteen during spring training show Hayes's first

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

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Speaker 1: opening the X five eight four eight account and translated

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Speaker 1: By the way, part of the job description for an interpreter.

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Speaker 1: eighteen account X five eighty four eight and somehow ebe

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Speaker 1: Bookmaker one wanted to settle Mizuhara's losses. The X five

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Speaker 1: eight four eight account was accessed through the internet for

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Speaker 1: the first time since twenty eighteen. This is the moment

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Speaker 1: Just a month after he meets Matthew Boyer. This is

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Speaker 1: the moment Ibe first takes action on an idea he's

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Speaker 1: had for we don't know how long, alone in a hotel,

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Speaker 1: show Hay when he's in an uber from Showhey's place

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Speaker 1: back to his own place in California. After this long

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Speaker 1: Ibe tries to log into this bank account, maybe just

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Speaker 1: really log in? Should I do this? Bookmaker One asks

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Speaker 1: and wants to settle this by tomorrow and again. This

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Speaker 1: Ibe responds, I can wire the amount to his bank account.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what bank he uses? I can wire

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Speaker 1: right there in the summary of probable cause in the complaint.

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Speaker 1: Between November twenty twenty one and January twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: more than sixteen million dollars was transferred via wire from

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Speaker 1: of associates of an operator of an illegal sports book

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Speaker 1: Bookmaker one. In an interview Shohe said that he did

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Speaker 1: not authorize these transfers, and the transfers from this account

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

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

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Speaker 1: How did it go on so long? How did Epe

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Speaker 1: back to the show. Thursday, October twenty eighth. The following day,

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Speaker 1: Bowyer's associate, Bookmaker two, follows up with Epe. Bookmaker one

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Speaker 1: asked me if you wired? I told him, I wasn't sure.

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Speaker 1: Let me know so I can tell him. No response

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: dot dot dot dot dot. How much does he owe

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Speaker 1: at this point? Has he really never sent a wire before?

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

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

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Speaker 1: EPA's phone number and to an anonymous email account which

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Speaker 1: is connected to epay based on data found on his phone.

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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: on November ninth, eBay has still not paid. I've tried

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Speaker 1: same day, the Baseball Writers Association of America announced the

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Speaker 1: Shohe was one of four finalists for the American League

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Speaker 1: the first wire from account X five eight four eight

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Speaker 1: Bookmaker two that he was quote able to send forty K.

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Speaker 1: I can only send forty K at the time time.

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Speaker 1: On November fifteenth, twenty twenty one, the X five eight

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Speaker 1: a PayPal service used to send money abroad. Chris Seymour,

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Speaker 1: the author of the complaint, writes, I believe this was

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

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Speaker 1: On December eighth, another fifty k. The floodgates have opened.

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Speaker 1: If Epe made any resolutions about quitting gambling with Matthew Boyer,

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Speaker 1: they lasted approximately one day. On January tewod twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Ipe messaged Bookmaker two and asked him if Bookmaker one

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Speaker 1: two response, Bookmaker one bumped you fifty K. Bump. According

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Speaker 1: Boyer has been bumped an additional fifty thousand dollars. What

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Speaker 1: In legal gambling, you don't get bumped. So this is

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Speaker 1: new lows of deception and lies. On January fifteenth, twenty

430
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: twenty two, EPA texted Bookmaker two, fuck I lost it

431
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: all LOL. Can you ask Bookmaker one if he'll bump

432
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: me fifty K. That will be my last one for

433
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: a while if I lose it. February first, another two

434
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,960
Speaker 1: weeks later, he sent another wire should be there by

435
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: end of tomorrow. But there must have been a problem

436
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: because the next day, February second, EPA calls the bank.

437
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: He identifies himself as show Hay and he says that

438
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: he's trying to send this money for a car loan,

439
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: but the amount must have been too much. The bank

440
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: denies his request and they freeze online transactions for the

441
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: X five eight four eight account. Later that day, Ibe

442
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 1: calls the bank again. He gets a different bank employee

443
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: on the phone regarding the suspension of online banking activity

444
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: on the X five eight four eight account that was

445
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 1: imposed earlier that day. He pretends to be show Hay again.

446
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: The bank employee asks him security challenge questions biographical information

447
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:48,080
Speaker 1: about show Hay. As a result of this call, Mizuhara

448
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: was able to successfully lift the online banking suspension on

449
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: the X five eight four eight account. The talented mister

450
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: eBay it off. He impersonated Showhy and got away with it.

451
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: After this phone call, things change. eBay has access to

452
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: more money than before. On February fourth, eBay messages Bookmaker two,

453
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: the last transaction got canceled dot dot. I went to

454
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,959
Speaker 1: the teller. Everything should be sorted out. I made another

455
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: transfer for three hundred k today since I lost the

456
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,800
Speaker 1: other one hundred k already. Later that day eBay messages again,

457
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: wire went through another transfer for three hundred k. Today.

458
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: The numbers eBay is paying back to Matthew Boyer are skyrocketing.

459
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: And this is just the beginning. With Boyer bumping Geepey

460
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: down into a deeper and deeper hole of debt. By

461
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 1: impersonating show Hey to the bank, eBay has unlocked access

462
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: to millions of dollars all the money show Hey has

463
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: made as a major leaguer, And you'd think that would

464
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: be an impossible amount of money to go through. But

465
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 1: a little over three weeks later, on February twenty eighth,

466
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: eBay is having cash flow problems yet again. And at

467
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: this point in our story, a new character makes a

468
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: big entrance. Hi, I hope you had a great weekend.

469
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: Other wires still hasn't been received. Can you just wire

470
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: the two hundred This is the very first text from

471
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyer himself to Epay that we see in the

472
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:55,680
Speaker 1: complaint Bookmaker two disappears. Communications from this point forward go

473
00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: between Boyer himself and eBay. And why would Boyer him

474
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: self step in? Maybe Epay is becoming a top client

475
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: boier than messages Epay again he has an offer something new.

476
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: I will give you the free play that I was

477
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: going to give Bookmaker two since you had such a

478
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: rough stretch. Please let me know or send me screenshot

479
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: when wire sent to quote the complaint. Free play generally

480
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: refers to betting where a gambler is not required to

481
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: pay for any betting losses. In other words, free play

482
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: means you can keep betting, keep playing. It's the proverbial.

483
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: This one's on the house. Here, have a drink. Oh

484
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: and about your tab? Can you just wire the two hundred?

485
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 5: Wire the two.

486
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: We don't know how much free play Boyer gave Epay,

487
00:34:52,040 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 1: but in any case, it does not help. March sixth,

488
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, it's a Sunday, meaning payments to Boyer

489
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: are due that day. Anyway, you can bump me a

490
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 1: little bit. I will wire you my losses on Wednesday,

491
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: if that's okay. I need to wait a week to

492
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 1: send another big wire. This means that Ipe last sent

493
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: a quote big wire the previous Wednesday, so four days earlier,

494
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: maybe three hundred thousand dollars to pay off a week's

495
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 1: gambling debt. It means that over those four days he

496
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: has gotten into the red again, and so today Sunday,

497
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,280
Speaker 1: he's asking Boyer for a bump because he can't wait

498
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: three more days until the next Wednesday to wire the

499
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: money and unlock his credit to keep betting. He has

500
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 1: full access to a bank account with millions and millions

501
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: of dollars in it. He's wiring as much money as

502
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: is permitted, as often as is permitted, and still it's

503
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: not enough to keep up with his habit. So he

504
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: asks for another bump anyway you can bump me a

505
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: little bit next the following Thursday, March tenth. In one

506
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: of the most heartbreaking scenes in the complaint, Ebe tries

507
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: to self impose limitations on his own gambling because nobody

508
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: else is putting limits on him and the hole is

509
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: getting deeper and deeper and deeper. eBay messages Matthew Boyer,

510
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: thank you, can you put in one hundred k instead

511
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: of three hundred k? Boyer responds, you mean lower credit

512
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: to one hundred. Ebey replies, yeah, I'll get too reckless

513
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: with three hundred. You might be thinking, how could this

514
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: guy be so unlucky to always lose? Well, he doesn't

515
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: always lose. On May eighteenth, twenty twenty two, Oyer messages Epay,

516
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: confirming that you receive the ACCH that's the wire transfer

517
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: for the forty seven thousand, two hundred and sixty Also

518
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: just confirming you still want me to wire more before

519
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 1: I do. I see your down so lmk t y bud.

520
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,479
Speaker 1: Epe responds, yes, I received it, thank you very much,

521
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: and no, you do not need to wire anymore since

522
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: I'm down again. Haha. On this same day, an account

523
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,680
Speaker 1: under Epay's name at the same bank as the X

524
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: five eight four eight account received a wire transfer for

525
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: forty seven thousand, two hundred and sixty dollars. The shows

526
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: that Epey's winnings were deposited into his own separate account,

527
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: not into the X five eight four eight account. Show

528
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: heyes account which was used to pay down Epay's debts,

529
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: and if epe really did steal six teen million dollars

530
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: out of this account, as he is alleged, to have

531
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: done that still would not pay down his entire debt

532
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: to Matthew Boyer. In all, Ibe would win over one

533
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: hundred and forty million dollars betting with Boyer on sports,

534
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: but he would lose one hundred and eighty million dollars.

535
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: That's a net loss of over forty million dollars. And

536
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: according to the complaint, which is based on what was

537
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: on Ebe's phone and what was on show Hay's phone,

538
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: and also an Excel spreadsheet with the betting history for

539
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: Ebe's account with Matthew Boyer, the records quote do not

540
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 1: reflect any bets on baseball games. But in the meantime,

541
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: Ibe had a front row seat watching one of the

542
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: best baseball players to ever walk the Earth.

543
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 4: Show.

544
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 9: Hey, oh, Todi, So we got a late start out

545
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 9: to the for his warm up pitches because he was

546
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 9: just at the plate. He's a number three hitter for

547
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 9: the Angels or Tony three and two, but it's the

548
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 9: last fort.

549
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: On May eighteenth, twenty twenty two, show Hay was being

550
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: show Hay. He was on the mound against the Texas

551
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:20,879
Speaker 1: Rangers and he was batting third behind Mike Trout, one

552
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: of the best baseball players Alive got.

553
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,359
Speaker 9: Him slider back to backstrikeouts three on the night so.

554
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 4: Far for oh TONI.

555
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 1: And let's pause on show Hey for just a moment.

556
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: People are wondering, like, did he do anything? You know,

557
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,919
Speaker 1: what did he do? What did he know? He had

558
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: to be involved, right, I mean he had to be

559
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: and I see where that's coming from. But also, guy's

560
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: a baseball player. I mean his whole life is about

561
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: protecting his focus and his dedication to this day in

562
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: day out craft and sleeping ten hours a day plus naps.

563
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: You think that between innings this night, he was going

564
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: back into the dugout in some sort of secret code,

565
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: communicating with eBay about what bets he wanted placed, how

566
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: much to put on, what UCLA soccer game Ibe might

567
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: have been betting on that night or that moment, that minute,

568
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: twenty five bets a day, Joe Hey is worried about

569
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: the game. And I think that that's how these two

570
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: best friends can sit next to each other every waking

571
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: moment of every day, and still this could be transpiring

572
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: because each has their obsession and somehow the whole thing's

573
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: hanging together, you know, by a thread, And it really

574
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: is truly incredible how long it hung on by a thread.

575
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: After May twenty twenty two, the text messages from the

576
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Mezuhara phone show that Mizuhara had a quote bad run.

577
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: Despite bight owing Bookmaker over one million dollars in losses,

578
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: Bookmaker one continually increased Mizuhara's betting limits during a two

579
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: month stretch in twenty twenty two, Ibe wired one point

580
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 1: two million dollars from the X five eight four eight

581
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: account on the same device he used to place bets

582
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: and that he used to log into his own personal

583
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: bank account. A bad run. That's a quote from a

584
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: text message that Boyer sends Epe a year later, in

585
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: May twenty twenty three. So between May twenty twenty two

586
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: and May twenty twenty three, we don't really see much

587
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: in the complaint, but we know it was a bad run.

588
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: We'll sum it up this way. I'm terrible at this

589
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: sports betting thing. Huh ep a text at some point,

590
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: lol dot dot dot dot any chance you can bump

591
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: me again? Question mark she mark as you know you

592
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:06,959
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about me not paying two exclamation points.

593
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: Ibe has got to be Boyer's top client at this point,

594
00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: can you bump me a last two hundred? He texts

595
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: Less than a month after that, I swear on my

596
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,879
Speaker 1: mom this will be the last ask before I pay

597
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: it off once I get back to the States. Sorry

598
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,760
Speaker 1: for keep on asking dot dot dot dot. That message

599
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: came in December, and Boyer texts back NP done, Bud,

600
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:44,439
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. As Ebe continues his bad run, show Hey

601
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 1: continues to make history. Somehow, his twenty twenty two season

602
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: was matching what he had done in twenty twenty one.

603
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 3: Shoony, It takes the first pitch, it suits it deep

604
00:42:55,400 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 3: to right field, Garcia drifting, and it's gone. Otani sends

605
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 3: another one out to right field.

606
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 6: That one does instead a.

607
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,760
Speaker 1: Chance to stick around.

608
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 9: Two putchouts for Showy Otani that ties a career highline.

609
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: We're still not yet a full year into Epe's two

610
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: plus years of placing bets with Matthew Boyer and IPA

611
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 1: and show Hey are together day in and day out,

612
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty five days a year, according to eBay,

613
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: more than he spent with his wife. All that travel,

614
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: the time in the car, the plane, the bus, in

615
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 1: the gym, working out on the field, hitting off the

616
00:43:35,560 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: tee in the cages, playing video games, eating bento boxes,

617
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: anytime show hey wanted to talk in any detail with

618
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 1: pretty much anybody coaches, teammates, trainers, doctors, plus the requisite

619
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: media availabilities, even just sitting in the dugout during games.

620
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: So many hours of being in such close fits a

621
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: goal proximity. And there is this massive deception going on.

622
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 1: How often did Ibe come even a little bit close

623
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: to getting found out? How many times a day did

624
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: he think about it as he was looking his best

625
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: friend in his eyes? How many times did the plan change?

626
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: How many times did his intentions shift? What was it

627
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: like to live with this? And how many edits did

628
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: he do to the story he was telling himself to

629
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: justify or attempt to understand what he was doing, continuing

630
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: farther and farther down this path of theft and deceit

631
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 1: and harm. And how is it that sho hay didn't

632
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 1: notice anything, that he didn't see that anything was amiss

633
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: with his friend, not to mention what was going on

634
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: with his own bank account. Sho hay Otani has a

635
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: very strange relationship to money, a distant relationship. The complaint

636
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: shows Ibe was just one of several people at least

637
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: who knew more about what was going on with show

638
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: Hay's finances than show Hay himself. The X five eight

639
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: four to eight account was set up to receive show

640
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 1: Hay's salary from Baseball exclusively. Showhy receives income from other

641
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: sources like investments and his countless endorsements, which make him

642
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: as much as forty to fifty million dollars every year,

643
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: and all that money was not going into this account.

644
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: It was going into a different account, or probably several accounts.

645
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: There are American accounts, Japanese accounts, and there are different

646
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: people looking at these different accounts who are not show Hey.

647
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: Chief among them nez Bilelo, show Hay's agent. Show His

648
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: domestic endorsements and related income were managed by nez Blelo,

649
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: according to this complaint, as well as a prof professional bookkeeper,

650
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:05,200
Speaker 1: a financial manager, and a professional tax preparer and accountant.

651
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: So that's four people right there, all of whom are

652
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: involved in managing show Hayes domestic endorsements alone. So suffice

653
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,759
Speaker 1: it to say that there's a lot going on, and

654
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: there are a lot of accounts, and there's only one

655
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: here that Epe even has access to. And remember Epe

656
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: is sho Hay's translator, his interpreter. He is the thing

657
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: between show Hay and the English speaking world show Hey inhabits,

658
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: and that position made him incredibly powerful. There's a photo

659
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 1: of Nez, show Hay, and Ipe from when Showhy was

660
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: introduced as a Dodger big two thy grin from Nez

661
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:48,240
Speaker 1: the agent with the slick backed hair and the slightly

662
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 1: sporty checked business suit, and there's show Hay in the middle,

663
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: looking iconic in Dodger blue for the very first time,

664
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: and he's got the tie on underneath with the business

665
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: shirt because he just took his jack it off because

666
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: they just break out the jersey and he puts it

667
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: on for the first time on stage. And then there's

668
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:11,760
Speaker 1: Epe three piece ties in a half windsor slightly loose.

669
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: These three guys were on the top of the world

670
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:21,960
Speaker 1: seven hundred million dollars, biggest contract in sports history. They

671
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: did this together, but of course Ebe speaks Japanese and

672
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: Nez does not. Nez Blelo had an hour to make

673
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: his pitch to the most coveted bat and arm in Japan.

674
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,520
Speaker 1: According to an article in Sports Business Journal, actually when

675
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 1: factoring in the need to run each sentence through an interpreter.

676
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: Ballelo's introductory meeting was Shohei Otani in late twenty seventeen,

677
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: included only about forty minutes of dialogue. I'm not exactly

678
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: sure why he chose me as his agent. Blelo said.

679
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: Ebe was in with first. He was already the guy

680
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 1: behind the guy before Nez Ballelo came into the picture.

681
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: Whether this accorded Ipe some type of seniority in this situation,

682
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: or whether it was simply about the language barrier. Ipe

683
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: had this angle, and in order to pull this off,

684
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 1: Ipe really had to work that. While Nez Ballelo Quote

685
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: will occasionally hire Japanese language interpreters to communicate with his clients,

686
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 1: he did not hire an interpreter to communicate with Showhy

687
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,720
Speaker 1: because Ipe was always with him. It continues that nes

688
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 1: Quote did not speak directly to victim A or regularly

689
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: exchange text messages with victim A. Instead, he relayed messages

690
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: to Victim A through Mizuhara. None of Shohei's agents, accountants,

691
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: or financial advisors spoke Japanese, so Showhey relied on epay

692
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,960
Speaker 1: to translate conversations with those people. EPA says that he

693
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:12,400
Speaker 1: always accompanied sho Hay to meetings with accountants and financial advisors.

694
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 1: Because victim A received income from a range of both

695
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: foreign and domestic sources, victim A generally would not ask

696
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: me Zuhara to inquire about specific accounts, and instead would

697
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: ask me Zuhara to inquire with the above identified financial

698
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: professionals for an overall picture of his income or investment profile.

699
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: So I'm imagining something, but late at night in the hotel,

700
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: when they're meeting up and talking about you know what

701
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: else for tomorrow show, he is getting a general picture

702
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: about what's going on with his financial accounts from EPAY

703
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: or you know, in the car between the hotel and

704
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: the ballpark, or maybe in a standing meeting where they

705
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: talk about these things specifically. But no matter the circumstances,

706
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: he's getting this information as an overview from EPAY and

707
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: EPA alone. According to the complaint, victim A stated that

708
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: he believed that Agent one, that's nez Bilelo, his accountants

709
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: and financial advisors were monitoring all of his accounts, including

710
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: the X five eight four eight account, and IPE is

711
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: doing everything that he can to keep them away from

712
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: that account. According to the complaint, nez Ballelo asked epe

713
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: on quote multiple occasions about the account. Ibe told Nez

714
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:34,640
Speaker 1: that the account was quote private and that Shohei did

715
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: not want anyone else to monitor the account. Nez Ballelo

716
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: quote stated that he did not confirm these representations directly

717
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: with Shohy, but stated that he had no reason not

718
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: to believe eBay. It is a very small circle of

719
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,960
Speaker 1: trust around Shohei Otani Ibe was perhaps the most powerful

720
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,919
Speaker 1: person in this very small and exclusive It would take

721
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: somebody coming in from the outside to even get close

722
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: to uncovering the truth. Three different people hired by Nez

723
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: to help manage sho Hayes's finances were interviewed for the complaint.

724
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: Each of them had questions about the X five eight

725
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: four eight account. Two of them went to Nez. Nez

726
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: told them that Ebe told him that Shohey wanted that

727
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: account kept private, and that was that. The third person,

728
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: identified only as KF, an accountant hired to do show

729
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: hayes domestic taxes, has a different story. The complaint says

730
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 1: that KF only met show hay once for an introductory

731
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: meeting after that all communications went through nez or Epe.

732
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 6: Fourteen wins and two hundred plus strikeouts as a pitcher.

733
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he also hits the baseball to a tune

734
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 6: of thirty four dingers for the Halos this season.

735
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 1: October twenty twenty two. IBE would place over two h

736
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand dollars in bets on a single

737
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: day this month, and show Hey has just finished another

738
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: historic season. Sometime during this month, KF was scheduled to

739
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 1: meet with show Hay and eBay, but only EPA showed up.

740
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: He tells KF, who had only met show Hay once

741
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: at an introductory meeting, that show Hey is sick unable

742
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: to attend. KF asks Epey directly about the X five

743
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: eight four eight account. Show Hay was risking filing incorrect

744
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: tax returns if there is interest being accrued in the

745
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: account or if there are any gifts made from the

746
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: account at an amount that would trigger tax reporting requirements,

747
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 1: and epe responds, show Hey wants that account kept private

748
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,920
Speaker 1: from everyone, and that account does not bear interest and

749
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: there were no gifts from that account. Did KF suspect anything?

750
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 1: What about the other money people who also asked nez

751
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: Bilelo about this account. Maybe it's a moot point. Such

752
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: was Abe's power within the inner circle around show Hay.

753
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: Even those who came close to Shohey would only know

754
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: how he felt about something from Ebe. This was key

755
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: to Ebe's deception and also the longevity of his lie,

756
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: and so it continued. Yeah, it's called the freeway series.

757
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: They haven't marked down. June twentieth, twenty twenty three Angels

758
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:35,319
Speaker 1: versus Dodgers and Anaheim do it two on pets at

759
00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: a swing set message strike three. Ebe messages Matthew Boyer,

760
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: it looks like I can only send five hundred per week.

761
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: Does five hundred a week work for you?

762
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 3: A bit crowd in A big hand for sho Hey

763
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 3: O Taani.

764
00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:51,719
Speaker 4: He is the reigning American League Player of the Week.

765
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 1: Getting close to two years after he started betting with

766
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: Matthew Boyer. Bank records show that Ebe accessed the account

767
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: again and pretending to be Shohey on this day and

768
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: the amounts have gotten incredibly high half a million dollars

769
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: a week. Smith Caleb Ferguson is three to two. Dot

770
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: it strike three. He strikes out O Tani and trout,

771
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: but somehow five hundred thousand dollars a week is not

772
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: enough to pay down Ebees debts. Rojas has a read

773
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:28,960
Speaker 1: on it, and that seals it. Two nothing win for LA.

774
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: Two days later, on June twenty second, I got my

775
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: ex kicked again. Lol dot dot dot dot. Any chance

776
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: I can get one last bump? Okay, Bud, I just

777
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: want to be able to communicate with my partners so

778
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: he knows expectations. If I can assure him that the

779
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 1: minimum five hundred will be sent every week, I can

780
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: do the bump to whatever you want. It's just imperative

781
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: that the five hundred is sent every week. FYI. I

782
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,839
Speaker 1: have already paid out of my pocket to him half

783
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: of the balance that is on the account, So whatever

784
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: is lost every week, I have to give him half

785
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,640
Speaker 1: of the balance. That's why I'm asking these direct important questions.

786
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,760
Speaker 1: June twenty third. The following day, I'm the worst, Lol,

787
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: can't catch a break? Can I get one last bump?

788
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:24,919
Speaker 1: I swear this is going to be my last until

789
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: I get the balance down significantly. I promise this will

790
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:34,760
Speaker 1: be the last bump for a while. Okay, NP done.

791
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: June twenty fourth another day later, I have a problem. Lol,

792
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: Can I get one last bump? This one is for real,

793
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: last one, for real.

794
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 2: Done?

795
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,320
Speaker 1: I have the same problem, crying, laughing emoji. To be

796
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:58,920
Speaker 1: honest with you, Epee. As long as you can guarantee

797
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: the five hundred every month, I'll give you as much

798
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: as you want, because I know that you're good for it.

799
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: Time keeps passing. Another baseball season ends. In October twenty

800
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: twenty three, Federal agents raid Matthew Boyer's home in San

801
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: Juan Capistrano. They take electronic devices, computers, and phones. Boyer

802
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: is under investigation, but he has not been charged and

803
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: he is not in custody. He still expects Ipe to

804
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: pay him back.

805
00:56:29,120 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 3: Sho Hey Otani receiving his second American League MVP award

806
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 3: is second unanimous honor.

807
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, back.

808
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: The November seventeenth, twenty twenty three, Shohey's second unanimous AL

809
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,440
Speaker 1: MVP award was just announced. He gives an interview about

810
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: it from his home while holding his dog, a dog

811
00:56:49,239 --> 00:56:52,879
Speaker 1: whose name we don't know, who will become an Internet sensation. Fully,

812
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 1: thank think you about this. Obviously. I wanted to windy

813
00:56:56,320 --> 00:57:00,040
Speaker 1: last year, but on this day Disney Plus release. This

814
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:03,359
Speaker 1: is show Hey Otani Beyond the Dream, at the very

815
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: height of the craze around Show Hay's free agency. This

816
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: is around the same time everybody is speculating that show

817
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 1: Hey is on a plane to Toronto. Hey, e b

818
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: It's two o'clock on Friday. I don't know why you're

819
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: not returning my calls. I'm here in Newport Beach and

820
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: I see show Hey walking his dog. I'm just gonna

821
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: go up and talk to him and ask him how

822
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: I can get in touch with you. Since you are

823
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: not responding, Please call me back immediately. November nineteenth, two

824
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: days later. I'm gonna be honest. I ended up losing

825
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: a lot of money on crypto the last couple of years,

826
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 1: and I took a huge hit obviously with the sports too.

827
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: Is there any way we can settle on an amount.

828
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: I've lost way too much on the site already.

829
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 5: Dot dot dot.

830
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: Of course, I know it's my fault. December fourteenth, Show

831
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 1: hayes introductory press conference with the Dodgers. EPE is on

832
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,440
Speaker 1: stage with Show Hay, Dodgers owner Mark Walter, Dodgers President

833
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedmans.

834
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 7: Bilo Show Hayes interpreter mostly show Hayes's best buddy, close friend,

835
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 7: Ipe Mizuhara.

836
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,120
Speaker 1: So his name is Dick. That's a Japanese name, and

837
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: December fifteenth the next day. I know you're busy, but

838
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: you need to show some respect. I put my neck

839
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: out there. Call me by tonight. I don't care what

840
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: time or how late it is. I'm so sorry, bro,

841
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. I really don't mean to disrespect you

842
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 1: at all. I promise, dot dot dot. It's just been

843
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: super super busy dot dot dot, and I've got other

844
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: issues on the side going on to dot dot dot.

845
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: Everything has just been really, really tough recently. I don't

846
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: think you ever gave me the new bank account info

847
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. Could I please get that. I'm gonna

848
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: try to send something tomorrow. January sixth, twenty twenty four,

849
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: Bowyer texts eBay, you're putting me in a position where

850
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: this is going to get out of control. If I

851
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: don't hear from you by the end of the day today,

852
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:19,480
Speaker 1: it's going to be out of my hands. In his

853
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: original ESPN interview, Ebe described fearing for his safety and

854
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,080
Speaker 1: that somebody might come to his house, and it was

855
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: only at that moment, at his nadir that he went

856
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: to show Hay to plead for his help. Ibay later

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Speaker 1: said that he lied in that interview that he didn't

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Speaker 1: go to show Hay, but maybe the feeling in the

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Speaker 1: situation IBE was describing really did happen at this point.

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Speaker 1: In January twenty twenty four, Ibe stops betting with Matthew Boyer.

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Speaker 1: The wiring also stops, but during this period, according to

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Speaker 1: the complaint, eBay transferred more than three hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars the X five eight four to eight

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Speaker 1: account to eBay and what Not, a quote online marketplace

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Speaker 1: where users can purchase products, eg. Baseball cards. In January,

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Speaker 1: as shohe was doing off season workouts at Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 1: Ipe 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 epay

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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 Min, 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: Shohei Otani. Chris Seymour, the author of the complaint, says

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: eBay with spring training underway. We saw more and more

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Speaker 1: of show Hey, and more and more of eBay. So

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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, Ibe

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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, Ebe 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 4: A twenty twenty four Major League Baseball season set to

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Speaker 4: get underway.

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Speaker 1: We are in South Korea, soul to be exactly where.

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Speaker 1: Four four years ago on March twentieth, opening day, EPE message, boyer,

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Speaker 1: have you seen the reports? Yes, but that's all bullshit.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you didn't steal from him. I understand it's a

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Speaker 1: cover job. I totally get it, and EPE response, technically

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Speaker 1: I did steal from him. It's all over for me.

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Speaker 1: Based on the foregoing, there is probable cause to believe

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Speaker 1: that Mizuhara has committed bank fraud in violation of eighteen

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Speaker 1: USC Section one three four four Subsection two, signed Chris Seymour,

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Speaker 1: special Agent. Internal Revenue Service. Investigators looked at ninety seven

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Speaker 1: hundred pages of text messages between Showhy and EPE for

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Speaker 1: the complaint. There was no mention of sports betting. Dodger

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Speaker 1: Blue Dream is written and produced by Me Richard Parks.

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Speaker 1: This episode was story edited by Caitlin Esh with production

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Speaker 1: assistants from Angel kaas Original music in this episode by

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Speaker 1: William Ryan Fritch and by me. This entire episode is

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Speaker 1: based on allegations made by other people and reporting published

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Speaker 1: by other outlets. If you like Dodger Blue Dream, please

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Speaker 1: help us spread the word. After this episode, I planned

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Speaker 1: to start talking about baseball on this show. Thanks again

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Speaker 1: for listening. Go Dodgers,