LOS ANGELES -- The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers player’s bank account.

All income is taxable, even stolen money. If the interpreter pays back his former boss the stolen money, does the IRS let him off the hook on taxes? Not hardly.

Baseball star for the LA Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani, has seen his interpreter sentenced to prison after draining the athelete's bank account.

Ippei Mizuhara agreed to a plea deal last spring related to what authorities described as a years-long scheme to steal almost $17 million from Ohtani.

A former interpreter was sentenced on Thursday to nearly five years in prison for stealing $17 million from Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani to pay off gambling debts, according to a court document.

Ippei Mizuhara was sentenced in federal court after stealing nearly $17 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers player’s bank account.