The Interview

of events that's so rare, so unpredictable, no one would bet on it happening.

“March 19th 2024 was my Black Swan, because the story we had been working on for five months”

would suddenly change over the next 24 hours, twisting and turning in ways I could never

have expected, and for reasons I'm still trying to understand. I had seen wire transfers that showed a bank account and showhate Otani's name had wired millions to any legal bookmaking operation, and showhate spokesperson confirmed it, but he told me that showhate wasn't the one gambling. He says it was his interpreter, EPade Misa Harra, showhate was just paying off EPA's debts,

and now showhate's team has offered me an interview with someone they said would clear this all up.

I've never talked to EPA before, but I instantly recognize his voice, it's the voice

of showhate Otani, whenever showhate talks to reporters and Japanese, it's EPA who translates his words into English. I've been warned by ESPN's baseball reporters that EPA doesn't say much, I'm not sure he'll give me anything more than a prepared statement, and I don't know how much time I'll get with him, but I've been investigating this story for five months, and I have a lot of questions

about how showhate and his money got tied up in all of this, what EPA's role was, and I wonder if what EPA tells me will hold up to my line of questioning. I reach EPA in South Korea, he's in Seoul with the Los Angeles Dodgers who are set to play the San Diego Padres in just a few hours, it's the opening game of the MLBC season.

Showhate Otani is about to play his first regular season game in a Dodgers jersey, and he

will deliver, he'll get his first hit, his first steal, his first RBI for the Dodgers, but that will not be the top headline tomorrow, because his interpreter is about to steal the show, I'm ESPN investigative reporter Tisha Thompson, from 30 for 30 podcasts, this is the betrayal of Showhate Otani, Episode 2, the interview, in 2010 the family of four in California goes missing, and the clues left behind, send investigators on a year's long search.

“Is this a family on the run or is the truth far more sinister?”

From ABC Audio in 2020, this is what happens to the mixtaves, coming August 11th, wherever you get your podcasts, or subscribe to 2020 True Crime Plus on Apple Podcasts or ad free episodes, early access to new episodes, and so much more. I'm the only reporter EPA ever spoke to about this story, it's now been more than two years since we had this call, and every time I listen to it, I hear it differently.

When the interview starts, my first goal is to get an understanding of how the bookie at the center of the story, Matt Boyer, came into the picture. By now, I've confirmed that Boyer is under federal investigation, and the wire transfers I saw, the ones with Showhate's name on them went to Boyer's operation.

“What I'm going to do is start at what I think is the beginning, can you tell me how you met”

that Boyer? That's wrong. So I met him at a local porcupine, she knew I was Showhate's interpreter. So you kind of approached me, saying like he's like a fan. Okay.

Did he tell you what he did for a living? He told me that he has a sports book. A sports book is just a place that takes sports bets. It can be a brick and mortar building, or an app, or a website.

in a while on draft kinks.

He says he didn't realize that Boyer's sports book was different, that it was illegal. I thought it was legal this whole time, and once I found out that there was a federal investigation going, which was 23 days ago, that's when I first found out, and I was pretty shocked to hear that.

“So when you started your account, did you have to give a credit card or put some cash in”

or anything like that? No, he had a credit line, so that's what I'll call me. EPA is telling me that when he logged onto his account with Boyer, there was already credit there for him to use.

A legal sports book will never give gamblers credit up front.

That's one of the main draws for any legal sports book. No money down. Did that raise a red flag for you? Unfortunately, it didn't have to sign. What did you bet on?

What were you betting on? Oh, I bet on something football, basketball, soccer, not baseball. I never got on baseball overseas, domestic anything, that's 100%, I knew that, I knew that rule.

He did, exactly, rule, which rule?

Not to bet on baseball. Who told you that? Well, we have a meeting about that and it's been changing. Okay.

“You must think, don't bet on baseball ever, but it was okay to bet on other sports, other”

than baseball. It was like, I'm understanding. This tracks with major league baseball's rules on sports betting. Players and team employees can bet on sports. But they may not bet on baseball and they cannot use a bookie.

Did anyone ever tell you that you couldn't use a bookmaker? I don't fully recall. But E-Pay says, once he met the bookie, he began to rack up millions of dollars in debt. Why were you doing that? What was it doing for you?

Well, okay, okay, so, at the time, I couldn't share this with Joe Haybert. It was hard for me to make, like, my end speed of calling one paycheck to paycheck, because I kind of have to keep up with his large file, but at the same time, I didn't want to tell him this obviously ended up being the worst case scenario for him. I didn't want to go with him, I didn't want to go to him for help finance, so he saw

like that, so I was just trying to make ends meet on my side, and I was in debt a little bit, and so I was with other like that parents, and friends, and at the time that gambling, because the fact that he's going to give me some credit, I felt like I had a chance to kind of explode money back, and you thought you lowered it into the worst situation. I'm wondering if this response might be rehearsed.

It feels like a clean answer that just came pouring out of EPA in one go. Before this, the most we had ever heard him speak, was when he interpreted Show Hay's words. You rarely ever spoke about himself. I'm curious, you were talking about how, you know, you couldn't keep up with Show Hay's lifestyle, and you didn't tell him that, but you couldn't do it.

How much do you make each year? Well, that's the time I was making about 85,000 dollars a year.

“Did you start to make more than that over the next couple of months or years?”

Well, now with the dollars, I am making more money, and last year with the angels, it became year. Pretty good, ladies. Okay. I have been told you make roughly $300,000.

Is this going to go out on this story? I've had someone tell me it's $300,000. If that is incorrect, I want to know. Okay. Well, my new deal with the dollars is a little bit more than that.

Is it more than $500,000? No. Okay. Back in 2021, with his $85,000 a year salary, EPA says it was tough to make ends meet. So when Boyer Sports Book offered him credit, he says it seemed like a chance to make

some money.

“So, did he go bad quickly or did you win some money?”

I never test out and terrible, I'm never going to do it ever again.

I never want any money from there. You're right. I just kept on using it, I just kept on digging a deeper hole and just couldn't get out of this. Did you tell anyone?

No. I did not. Why? Mainly it was just embarrassing. Yeah.

I didn't. Yeah.

I mean, my wife goes into the novel and you're good.

I'm told, even right now. Okay. Okay. She's with us in Korea right now and she's not having a great time with, like, sorry, families.

And my husband, she's ripping off his heart every minute, like she's seen notice that, I'm like, we are tapping, we are doing this. We're not like all right now, we're really the whole trip. Bye. E.P. Pauzes.

And another voice jumps into the conversation. His name is Matt Hiltsick. He's showhio Tonny's spokesperson and he's been listening in on this call the whole time. When he speaks up here, he tells E.P. We're all here for you.

And we're all going to help you. He says, we care about you as a person. As he continues to reassure E.P. I wonder if he is talking to E.P. Or if this speech is actually meant for me.

Because the spokesperson was hired to protect showhio and showhio's reputation, he doesn't represent E.P. or E.P.'s interests. He tells E.P. we just want the truth. When he stops talking, I take my cue to continue.

“How much do you estimate you lost overall with lawyers operation?”

One thing that I would like to keep this close is possible. I mean, it's really embarrassing. I'm not just out. And it's also water right today. Keep it this close.

I had seen the wires showing that Shoheotani's bank account had sent money to the bookies operation. Multiple sources have told me at least $4.5 million left showhighs account. But I've heard it could be a lot more. Maybe as much as $16 million. I have sourcing that says that lawyers operation was paid at least $4.5 million.

What is your response to that? Hold on, let's put it out. I mean, pretty accurate. Is it more than that? I don't think so.

Okay.

For people who have never been in this place,

how do you get to $4.5 million?

“Is it because you keep hoping, for instance, that the next bet is going to bail you out?”

Or, you know, for someone who doesn't know what it's like, how do you get to $4.5 million? I mean, I dug my fossil hole and took it bigger, and it meant I had that bigger to get out of that. Just cut off all the reason. It's like a snowball effect.

How did you start paying him back? Well, that's when I had to go there. E-Pay is about to explain why the money was coming from Show Hay's Bank account, even though E-Pay is the one gambling. By 2023, E-Pay had racked up millions of dollars in debt,

and to pay off those debts, he says he goes to Show Hay.

I'll explain my situation with point-on and why I found this much of a debt, and obviously I'm here with an happy about it, but show you will help me out.

Make sure that I never do this again.

“I think that's pretty much what happened,”

and she decided to pay it off for me. Did he offer, did you ask? I asked. How do you ask someone? I mean, it's been characterized to me that the two of you are best friends,

that you were as close as brothers. How would you care to raise your relationship with him? I mean, you're best friends. We are like brothers, I mean, what's so there every day? Yeah. I'm a sandwich and my wife probably.

Do you like the family to me? Yeah.

E-Pay and Show Hay were always around each other.

There seemed to be a genuine closeness between them. Tim saw it, others did too. And now, E-Pay says they really are that close. Was it hard to come to him or was it easy?

“I think because you are clever, extremely hard.”

I didn't want, I was the last thing I wanted to come to me. I mean, in this way, I don't want to go to him about making my ends meet. And this was on another level. Yeah. But it really, really does you call?

Were you frightened? Yes. In that moment, when you went to him, what were you afraid of? I mean, a lot of things. You know, it's just that we built up.

Yeah. I'm afraid I might go right. Making my people meet differently. Yeah. Were you afraid of your safety or anything like that?

Safety? Mm-hmm. I mean, yeah. I was, I was because I was an almost dead. I didn't know.

Yeah. I was a trauma like, come to my house on there. Yeah. I have those kind of broads too. I'm intrigued by E-Pay's response.

His initial fear is what his debt will do to his relationship with Shohei. But when I bring up his safety, he says yes. He was afraid. But he's told me he thought this was a legal sportsbook. So why would he be afraid?

Legal sportsbooks don't come knocking at your door to collect their debts. So I would like to get into the specifics of what Shohei offered you. When you told him you were in trouble, you said you asked him for help. I mean, did you ask him for money? I asked him if he could pay my debt off.

He had to give this some thought. He had he ever gambled himself? I'm sorry. Do you know where it was? Never.

“I think guaranteed a sum of my life on the line.”

He's never placed any sportsbook ever in this life.

E-Pay says Shohei would even talk about how much he dislikes gambling. He thinks gambling is terrible. And obviously he doesn't need the money. How do you know he thinks gambling is terrible? Of course he sees, but people like our achievements would be gambling all the time.

He'll be like, "Why are these doing this like gambling is not good?" When he would make comments like that, how would that make you feel internally? Well, it's terrible. Yeah. So that makes it even harder to go to.

Oh, I wouldn't imagine. Sure. It feels very hard to go to him. You said he went to go think about it. So what does he come back to you with?

Walk me through that conversation. Yeah. So next time I see him, we show him a lot. I'm just going to pay the fall off me. Make sure, like, go over your entry with Shohei again.

Let me know. I was basically like, he's pretty sort and simple.

Yeah, he asked me how, like, what do I need to do?

“And I thought I was a wider information for his employees account.”

Did you reach out to Boyer to get it? Yeah. I'm getting really granular here because I want to know exactly. Step by step. What the process was that led to those wire transfers.

If what E.P. saying is true, what role did Shohei play in sending money to any legal bookie? So did you send him a text message with an email? Did he send it to you? Did you, like, how does this work?

I think he texted me. I'm fired at him.

So you turn around and say to Shohei, "Here's the wire transfer information?"

Do you show it to him on your phone? Do you text it to him? Do you do it for him? How does that go? I do this on this behalf.

Okay. So do you have access to his bank account? No, I don't. Okay. So when you say you did it on his behalf, he told me how that works.

He was with me.

Balls with him on his laptop or computer.

And he was logging online banking and send the wire. E.P. says Shohei knew about the wires. He says that they sent them together. My adrenaline is pumping. If that's true, he's just put Shohei's fingerprints on the transaction.

It wasn't just that the money was coming from Shohei's account. E.P. says Shohei was involved. By telling me this, by admitting this, he's directly implicating Shohei and sending millions to an illegal bookmaking operation that's under investigation for money laundering.

“I'm wondering, does E.P. realize what he just said?”

When an investigative reporter reaches out about a story that connects a celebrity to potential scandal, it usually kicks off a careful PR response. But here is E.P. Possibly implicating Shohei and something that could jeopardize his career. Was this the plan?

Is he going off script? Has my line of questioning forced him to reveal something he didn't mean to? Because the spokesperson doesn't intervene. So I keep going. What was his understanding of who Boyer was?

Did he know that that was a bookie? I don't think he had it. Any clue who he was on a board meeting? Because I just told him that this is the guy that I knew. I found a lot of it, to pay off the test.

He didn't say, "Have you done anything illegal or anything like that?" No, I don't think he's questioned me about that. One of the things that we know about the transfers is that it says loan on them. And I'm curious why it says loan.

“You have to add a description for the wire.”

I think that my economy is too loaner. You have to put something there. If you wire a real loan to someone, you don't pay income taxes on it. But if you lie about it, and it's not actually a loan, you're potentially committing tax fraud.

I would be interested in seeing any kind of tax messages or communications from that. Alright, so read it every time I have a snap. Up until this point, I've let E.P. tell me his story in his words. I haven't really pushed back on what he says for a reason. I wanted to see where he would go with it.

But now I need to challenge some of what he's told me. And forgive me for this, E.P. This is a lot of money. You tell him you're in trouble. You know it's for gambling.

You really did sit there and think about whether this is legal or not. Me, by default.

I never really crossed my mind ever.

This was like illegal at all. I feel a couple of days ago when I found out that there was a investigation going on. Okay. Did you think at any point by asking, "So hey, to pay your debt, but he would potentially be committing."

He would be putting himself frankly in the situation we're in right now, where there would be questions about legality. I don't think either of us think about that on the time. I don't know at all.

“Do you have the kind of relationship where he does things without questioning it?”

The spokesperson jumps in here. He says to E.P. he wasn't happy with you, right? No. Yeah. You're something not happy.

E.P. tells me, "Boy are wanted the money in a lump sum, but they could only send the wires in $500,000 in stalemates." He says he and show Hayson about eight or nine payments over the course of several months in 2023. That matches what my sources have told me. After you tell him about your situation,

and he begins to make these payments on your behalf. Did you? Did it, or how did it change your relationship with him? Honestly, to be honest, in the beginning, I felt really uncomfortable as hard to see him.

But the nice guy that, I mean, is a great guy. He must see you in on his life like nothing ever happened. Show Hay going on with his life in 2023, equated to hitting 44 home runs, and earning the MVP award in the American League.

And now E.P. is telling me that all that time, he and show Hay found the time to sit down together and secretly wire millions of dollars to Boyer's Operation. I felt like maybe after a few weeks of months, I really should say I got back to what I was before.

I mean, for me, I felt really uncomfortable for the first few weeks.

And it really, really guilty and felt terrible, but he kind of helped that goal away. But you had to keep making his payment. Yes.

“Did you have to keep having this conversation?”

I have, but he knew the whole smile, and he knew that we had to make several payments because he couldn't spend more than 500,000 dollars on it. Mm-hmm. So it was like, I feel like I asked him every week,

like, oh, sorry, this came up again. And it wasn't like that. How was it? I thought, right, when the beginning when I told him, like, this is how much I'm in that.

I can also call now. But he knew that he had to pay that whole amount of loss for me. It's going to be an increment. So, would you go to him and remind him, would he just do it a his own position?

No, I would do it with him every time. And it just became normal. It wasn't awkward. Like it was in the beginning. Is that what you're saying?

Yes.

“For me, I mean, it was a little, I felt how does every time.”

You're right. It was a liar. But he didn't make a big deal out of that. No. Yeah.

How did you feel? About that. Explain to me what how that made you feel. I mean, very appreciated. Obviously, but same time.

So, it was a really, really, like, a super-built trip, like, really guilty, terrible. And I mean, ever since that day,

like, I was always in the document line

to continue every day. I always think about it. Like, it's always there in my head, unless it's irrevocably. Um, did you offer to ever pay him back?

Or was this, you know, I'm going to pay this. And we're cool. Or did you say, let me try to pay some of this back?

If I'm going to pay him back.

If I'm going to pay him back. And I take a lot of, uh, I pull him even, even if he says no or anything on the toilet. Make all that effort to pay him back.

“What's really important to me is that I understand correctly”

about why I show hey would pay an illegal bookmaker directly from his bank account and call it alone, rather than just giving money to you, he pay off your debts. Oh, so we didn't know that.

This is what you think. This is what you think. That's very important. And she didn't want me to get the money to me. And she didn't want me to get the money to get the money to me.

And she didn't want me to get the money to get the money to me. And she didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me.

She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me.

She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. She didn't want me to get the money to me. What does this thing that's been said to me is that Otani owes for your money. And I want to understand why it would be characterized that way to me.

I would have no idea why that would anyone would say that. His name is on the bank statement. His name is on the wires. I mean, there's going to be, there's going to be people wondering is it Otani who did it. And you're taking the fall for him.

So I want to give you a chance to respond to that. This spokesperson jumps in before E-Pay can say anything. He tells me E-Pay has already answered the question that he spent the last hour sharing his story. But I push back. No, I don't know, but I want to give you a chance to respond to that criticism.

You know, I'm anticipating, oh, he's just taking the fall for Otani.

“So what would you say to someone who would accuse you of that?”

Um, so I'd never, ever met that boy or ever talked to him.

So there would be no way that subject of, I mean, been doing this on his own anything. And it was all me. I mean, that's 100, 100 truth. And all so he did was pay it all for me. And I was like, not much more than that.

So was there any kind of conversation between the two of you that, like, his name is now going to be on the wire transfer. He's now connected. You see where I'm getting, like, he's connected to this now. His name, you know, whether it's legal or not. His name is now connected to someone that you owe money to.

And he's going to get pulled into this now. Was there, it was a really no conversation, like, oh, now your name's attached to this. It really wasn't because I said earlier, we thought, we had no social legal because of 100% legal.

“We didn't really think about, I think, on with struggles with this name being involved in this.”

But obviously, if I knew this was a legal, then I was never a social name into any of this.

This is when the spokesperson interjects again. This time telling me, there's no cover up. I never said the word cover up, but the spokesperson doubles down saying, if people say this is just to cover up, it's the worst cover up in history. Like, you're denying there's any kind of cover up here.

It's absolutely no cover up. Okay, that all. What was your gut level, its fundamental reaction when you learned that math was under investigation? Was it scared more than anything, let's go out at this moment, but... I mean, it was reported.

What do you scared about at this moment? Well, this one of the story goes out with the reactions to the story, but on straight up. That's what you're afraid of the media, not necessarily the federal investigators or something like that.

I just, you know, that doesn't have investigation.

I don't know any more details.

“Has anyone reached out to you from the federal government?”

No, never. Has anyone reached out to show hey about these bank transfers from the federal government? No, not that little. She would tell me it's so good. We've now been talking for about 80 minutes, and this spokesperson is interrupting more and more.

I can feel that my time is running out, and I'm worried he's going to try to end the interview. I'm getting very close to the end, guys, because I know you're watching the clock. You're watching the clock. I don't know. I don't know.

I have time tomorrow to call awkward tonight after the game. eBay thinks we're going to have the chance to talk again. He and I seem to have a very different understanding of the gravity of what he's told me. I think he's going to be fired. He may be an even more trouble.

I don't know. Either way, I don't think they're ever going to let me talk to him again.

“Why have I not asked you, that you think is really important that people understand that he wants folks to know?”

Oh, hold on. Obviously, I want everyone to know that. So they have zero involvement. This is a bedding. I want to make that clear.

I want people to know that. I don't know. This is really legal. And obviously, I've learned my questions in a very hard way. I take it to the heart.

I take it to my heart.

And we'll never ever be forgetting the right again.

Never do sports betting. Are you prepared to face the consequences? If they fall, and when I say baseball, I mean, the Dodgers are major league. They fall, decides to take action. Yes.

I'm fully prepared to face any and all consequences. After I hang up with E.P. I begin to type out my story. E.P. Mizahara says he lost millions of dollars in bets with an illegal bookmaker. And his best friend, Jojo Tani, someone he says he is closer to than a brother, offered to pay off his debts.

“At least, that's what the article was going to say.”

A few hours after I get off the phone with E.P. The opening day game of the 2024 MLB season gets underway. The Dodgers versus the Padres. The two American teams are a go-chucks guide-on in Seoul, South Korea. A morning baseball back in the United States evening here in Seoul.

I'm watching the game on my laptop while I work on my story. All eyes are on show-hay. But at this moment, I don't really care about what's happening on the field. I'm waiting for the cameras to cut away to the dugout. Waiting, watching, for E.P.

What does he look like? Is he tired? Because I'm exhausted.

I never went to bed and it's now 6 o'clock in the morning on the east coast.

Well, he looks stressed. We'll show him to be able to look him in the eye. Because E.P. is made a mess, and now show-hay and his people are going to have to clean it up. E.P. has just confessed to an ESPN reporter that he racked up millions of dollars of debt, betting on sports, and that he and show-hay sent money to an illegal bookmaking operation.

In just a couple of hours, we're planning to publish my article that will reveal both of these things to the world. But instead of looking like two men who are in trouble, and whose relationship I would think would be under considerable stress, they're laughing, standing next to each other in the dugout, watching the game,

Very little surprises me these days.

“But that, the two of them laughing, I was stunned.”

The Dodgers beat the Padres five to two. As the team walks off the field, into the locker room, we're in the final stages of putting our story together. But less than 15 minutes before we're set to publish, I get a call from show-hay spokesperson Matt Hildsick.

When I pick up, he shouts into the phone. E.P. lied.

Matt Hildsick is freaking out in a way I've never before experienced in my career.

He's frantic, telling me that show-hay just now learned about the transfers from his account, just now in the locker room. He says show-hay had no idea E.P. was using his money to pay off the debts, and that the whole thing was a lie. He says he's still trying to figure out what happened, and hangs up.

Not long after, I get a statement from Otani's lawyers. It says, in the course of responding to recent media and queries, we discovered that show-hay has been the victim of a massive theft, and we are turning the matter over to the authorities. I call E.P. I don't record it everything is moving too fast.

I read him the statement, and he confirms it, but won't say anything more. E.P. I say, "Did you lie to me last night in some of your statements?" Yes. I'm worried he'll hang up, and I need clear answers.

So I jump into a set of yes or no questions.

“Did show-hay transfer funds to the bookmaking operation?”

No. Did show-hay know the funds were being transferred? No. Did you tell show-hay about the gambling debts and wiring the money? No.

Did you offer to pay him back? Yes. When? As soon as I can. I asked today or in the past, E.P. says,

"I told him today and the past." I've been told by show-hay's team that he only learned just now that E.P. took his money. But E.P. saying he had offered to pay it back in the past. So I start to ask him, "When did show-hay learn as money was missing?" But E.P. and her rubs me.

They told me I can't answer anything. Who is they? He doesn't answer. Is it Otoni's people? He doesn't answer.

I ask him if he's being paid or getting any kind of deal to say this. He says no, he's doing it of his own free will. Are you employed with the Dodgers? He tells me he's not sure. Then I ask, "Did you lie to show-hay?"

E.P. says, "Yes." Throughout the call, I can hear a voice talking. I think to him. I can't tell if it's a man or a woman. I don't know if it was his wife.

Show his agent or someone else. When I ask, "Are you being accused of stealing or embezzling from show-hay?" E.P. and Rubs. I was also told I can't comment on that part. I ask, "Have you told your family?"

He says, "I don't want to talk about my family." We hang up. I call my editors. As we drop these new quotes into the story, I text E.P. with one final question.

"Did you take the money from show-hays accounts without his knowledge?" E.P. never responds. The Dodgers have fired the interpreter for show-hay Otani. B. Suhara allegedly placed wagers with an illegal sports book in California. Accused of racking up millions of dollars in illegal gambling debts.

Hinklame Zotani had no knowledge of his gambling debts or transfers. It's certainly not the good look now. Good Otani would like. The scandal now rocking this fort.

“So, how in the world does someone just transfer four and a half million dollars of his money?”

And he has no idea of it. Why did the story change so drastically?

My sources first told me show-hays bank account was sending money to a bookie.

But then E.P. said he was the one gambling. Show-hays was just helping him pay his debts. And now it's changed again. It was all E.P. E.P. placed the bets and somehow access show-hays bank account to pay off the bookie.

And show-hay knew nothing about it. Who really is E.P.? E.P. says he and show-hay were closer than brothers. Always together. And so in this moment, people were asking.

Is it really possible that show-hay didn't know what was going on? You know where your money is at. I know where my money is at.

Either show-hay was betrayed by his best friend or he threw his best friend under the bus.

“This season on the betrayal of show-hay Otani.”

Everyone was every little bit of show-hay Otani. And E.P. was part of him, part of the show-hay Otani deal with E.P.

I was shocked to see this person bet over 19,000 sports events.

I mean, even if I wanted to, I couldn't do that many bets. I was pissed.

“It was definitely a manipulation from the get-go.”

It painted a really shocking picture of one person abusing the trust of another person.

The betrayal of show-hay Otani is based on reporting by me, Tisha Thompson, with support from Tim Kuhin and the E.S.P. and investigative unit. Our producer is Carrie Ann Thomas. Our senior producer is Max Green.

“Our senior editorial producer is Piqui Varathon.”

Our associate producer is Gus Navarro. Story editing by Audrey Quinn, Elaine Tang, Eric Neill, and Mike Dregow. Additional editing by Rebecca Hudson. Our archival producer is Jennifer Welock. Our line producer is Catherine Sanky.

Production managers are Jason Schwartz and Sheena Williams. Fact-checking by John Masterbaradino with David Sabino. Additional editorial review from Masa Niwa. Original music by Allison Layton Brown and John DeLore. Sound design by John DeLore.

Chris Buckel is vice president of ESPN investigative enterprise and digital journalism. Marsha Cook, Brian Lockhart, Heather Anderson, and Burke Magnus are executive producers for 30-30. David Roberts, Mike Foss and Roxanna Scott are executive producers for ESPN.