Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter who stole nearly $17 million from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, is in federal prison in Pennsylvania after being ordered to surrender to federal authorities by Monday,

Mizuhara was reported to have run up $40 million in gambling debts and transferred money from Ohtani's bank account to pay his bets.

The former Japanese interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani has surrendered to a federal prison in Pennsylvania, beginning a nearly five-year prison sentence for bank and tax fraud after he stole