The bookmaker is linked to a translator, Shuhai Outani, was sentenced to more than a year in prison

The betting maker in southern California was sentenced to take thousands of sports stakes from the former translator of the baseball star, Shuhai Utani, in prison for more than Friday.

Matthew Bouer, who is now 50 years old, has admitted that he was guilty a year ago to manage illegal gambling, money laundering and submit a false tax. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison and one day in prison.

It will be subsequently exposed for two years of supervision release. He was also ordered to pay $ 1.6 million as compensation to the internal revenue department, whose lawyer said had already been rewarded.

“The bottom line is, I regret. I have taken many bad options in my life.”

Federal public prosecutors wanted to be sentenced to 15 months in prison for managing the plan, which put hundreds of millions of dollars in bets and recorded thousands of dollars every day. They said that Bouer could face a longer penalty, but it should not be thanks to his great help in their investigations.

The Public Prosecutor declined to comment after Friday’s session.

Diane Bass, Bouer’s lawyer, wanted to provide her client at the time of the entire prison because of his “exceptional acceptance of responsibility.” In a message to the field, the father of five San Juan Capistrano, California, said that he started a teenage gamble by playing poker and betting on video games, and later went out of control.

“It is very easy to gamble everything far and fall into despair,” Bouwir wrote. “I am so sorry and embarrassed that I facilitated such a serious danger.”

The case against Bowyer is part of a wider federal investigation in the illegal sports gambling that led to the arrest of the former Japanese language translator in the iPei Mizuhara, who is currently serving a prison sentence for approximately five years to defraud banks and taxes after stealing nearly $ 17 million from Los Angeles Dodger.

Illegal gambling works

The authorities said that Bweer has managed the illegal gambling work for at least five years in southern California and Las Vegas and took a bet from more than 700 teenagers, including Mezzoha, who have long worked with Utani and was regularly seen on his part.

While the total profits of Mizuhara amounted to more than 142 million dollars, which was deposited in his bank account, not Ohtani, his losing bets amounted to about $ 183 million – a net loss of about 41 million dollars. Investigators said Mizhura had dominated sport other than the baseball. The authorities said that Utani was a victim in the case.

Federal prosecutors wrote in the court files: Bouwir cooperated with the investigators in their prosecution in Mezzoha and a case against the head of the great sports gambling. They said that the “task in a timely manner and credible” helped the authorities obtain a separate condemnation.

Since then, BowYer has been addressing his gambling addiction and helping others to overcome them, as Bass wrote in the court files. She also said he paid $ 1.6 million in taxes.

The operation of unlicensed bets is a federal crime. Sports gambling is illegal in California, while most states and Colombia province allow any of them.

The scandals wandering in the sport have occupied the headlines in recent years, including those that led the main baseball game to ban a life player last year for the first time since Beit Rose was banned in 1989.

The gambling policy in the league is prevented from players and team employees from betting on the basement game, even legally. MLB also prohibits betting on other sports with illegal or marine betting makers.

Last year, the San Diego player Badris Tocoba Markano was banned and four other players commented on the basement game legally. Marcano has become the first active player in a prohibited century due to gambling.

Rose, who had already ended his play, agreed to ban in 1989 after the investigation found that he put many bets on Cincinnati Reds to win from 1985 to 1987 while playing with the team and managing it.

In Nevada, the case was led against Bouer Game organizers to issue a fine of $ 10.5 million against the global resorts casino on the Las Vegas sector. The second largest fine was submitted by the state’s games committee and settled on a complaint accusing Kazino to welcome persons with relationships with illegal books.