On Friday, ESPN’s Tisha Thompson wrote a timeline of all the events known to the public so far. At 10:30 pm on Tuesday, Mizuhara told ESPN, “After Ohtani agreed to pay the debts, the two of them logged into Ohtani's bank account on Ohtani's computer and sent eight or nine transactions, each at $500,000, over several months.”
This would make Ohtani complicit, to some degree, in making the payments. However, Ohtani’s lawyers released a conflicting statement the next day: “In the course of responding to recent media inquiries, we discovered that Shohei has been the victim of a massive theft and we are turning the matter over to the authorities.”
