Shohei Ohtani’s Legal Strategy Raises Eyebrows Engaging $30,000-an-Hour Attorney Burke Breitler, Possibly Consulting with Disappeared Former Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara

Mizuhara himself did not expect the furor to escalate to this level. He is now thinking of ways to keep Otani as “unscathed” as possible. Mizuhara seems prepared to accept the worst-case scenario of arrest.

Otani is represented by the Burke Bretler Law Firm, whose clients include Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio. Blair Burke represented DiCaprio against a woman who allegedly hit DiCaprio in the face with a bottle in ’10 and seriously injured him. The woman was found guilty. Andrew Bretler also represented Prince Andrew of England in ’21 in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sexually pimping children to celebrities in various countries, and settled with the woman.

It seems that it is mainly Mr. Brettler who gives pointers to the Otani side, and his alias is “Prince Andrew’s Pitbull. His nickname is “Prince Andrew’s Pitbull,” because he made a name for himself by defending the aforementioned Prince Andrew.

He is one of the most popular lawyers in Hollywood. Mr. Brettler’s hourly wage is said to be a whopping $2,000 (about ¥300,000). As his nickname “Pitbull” suggests, he is aggressive toward his opponents and obedient and kind to his clients.

The IRS (Internal Revenue Service), the equivalent of Japan’s IRS, has already launched an investigation into the Mizuhara interpreter, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is working on the “male operator” of illegal gambling, and MLB has also launched its own investigation. How can Shohei Ohtani be protected from such agencies? Let’s see what Mr. Bretney can do.

In the United States, Otani is also under scrutiny. What will be the end result of the fiasco that broke out immediately after the opening of the Major League Baseball season?