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Originally Posted by 72off
yeah, the dead giveaway was they all admitted that ohtani was in on it, before realizing that story was no good for them, i guess
How is the story no good? The first story, which was never independently publicized, would have been perfectly fine for Ohtani. The Feds don't even go after people that gambled illegally, they are certainly not going to go after someone who paid a friend's illegal debt. That's not a thing. The first story being legally problematic is something conspiritards on the internet made up. Even without the story change, Ohtani probably looks worse in the current story.
The story change makes it overwhelmingly more likely that Ohtani is telling the truth - the current story is extremely problematic for Ohtani if not true, because it involves a crime of the sort that is likely to be investigated and puts Ippei in an extremely precarious legal situation. It really doesn't make any sense that Ohtani's legal team would go along with it:
Well unless it's true. Also, Ohtani's full account now includes a huge number of potential witnesses that can't possibly all in the conspiracy together. Are all those people in the Dodgers organization, including players, other interpreters, Friedman, people that work for Balelo, their lawyers, crisis spokesperson. Are they all conspiring to cover up for Ohtani and falsely accuse Ippei? And they managed to get on the same page while operating under a deadline that ESPN gave while threatening to go public with the first story?