MLB is desperately praying for this story to go away, but it will only evolve from here. That’s largely because Ohtani’s theft claim, on its face, makes little sense. How did Ohtani not know his interpreter was wiring $1 million from his own bank account? How did Ohtani’s bank not alert him? Banking institutions have aggressive compliance procedures in place to ensure very large sums of cash are not wired without the consent of the account holders. It is difficult to imagine Ohtani himself didn’t sign off on the transfer in some form.
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