Mathew Bowyer, is the Orange County bookie at the center of the Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal. As a gambler, Mathew Bowyer bet big, often unsuccessfully, listing nearly half a million dollars in losses to two Las Vegas casinos in his 2011 bankruptcy.
According to ESPN, wire transfers from Ohtani’s bank account were made to an associate of Bowyer purportedly to pay down Mizuhara’s gambling debt. Mizuhara initially told ESPN that Ohtani knew of the payments, but then recanted in a later interview.
The friend overheard Mizuhara, walked over and said, “This is the guy you need to be betting with,” and introduced him to Bowyer, according to the source.At first, Mizuhara started betting small on international soccer, basketball and football — never baseball. As the losses grew, so did the bets. But Mizuhara regularly paid his losses, a source said.“Mr. Bowyer never spoke with Ohtani. The only person he ever dealt with was Mr.
In 2019, Bowyer formed Pick Enterprises, a Nevada-based corporation that lost its right to do business in California for failure to meet tax requirements, according to the California secretary of state’s website.