The Post used interviews and records to fill out the pulpy backstory of Mathew Bowyer, a gambler turned bookie intertwined with Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani.
The officers were zeroing in on a crew of suspected bookies, including hardened veterans of the underground gambling world with connections to the Colombo crime family’s “South Florida Crew.”
In an interview, his attorney, Diane Bass, acknowledged that Bowyer was a bookie. She reiterated that it was the interpreter, not Ohtani, who placed the bets, despite the ballplayer’s name appearing on the bank records. Bass said that Bowyer did not have athlete clients that she was “aware of.” Mizuhara was a “compulsive gambler,” Bass said; ESPN reported that Mizuhara said he met Bowyer playing poker in Southern California in 2021. Bowyer’s own history with gambling — and significant losses — dated to at least a decade earlier. When the Orange County, Calif. native filed for personal bankruptcy in 2011, he claimed to have lost $425,000 gambling in Vegas casinos over the previous two years.The divorced father of four was a failed exterminator.
It’s unclear when Bowyer became a bookmaker. In 2019, he founded a company called Picks Enterprises, LLC, out of a lawyer’s office in Las Vegas, corporate records show. He was by then living in a sprawling, Mediterranean-style home in San Luis Capistrano, Calif. He opened a nearby Brazilian jujitsu studio, called RYSK.
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