For those not familiar, Ohtani is probably the best baseball player alive right now (certainly the highest paid). He came to the US after playing baseball in Japan and has an interpreter who is also a good friend. The interpreter struggles with a gambling addiction and Ohtani allegedly paid off his friend’s gambling debts… or was the money stolen? Nobody knows yet, since people keep changing their story.
This is a problem because you can’t work for a sports league and also bet on games.