An Orange County bookie whose gambling customers included Dodger star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter was sentenced Friday to a year in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution.

Mathew Bowyer, 50, of San Juan Capistrano, pleaded guilty last August to operating an unlawful gambling business, money laundering and subscribing to a false tax return.

Federal prosecutors said Bowyer took in unlawful bets from Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani’s former interpreter, who pleaded guilty last year to charges of stealing nearly $17 million from the Dodger slugger’s bank account to pay off illegal gambling debts. Mizuhara was sentenced earlier this year to 57 months in prison.

Bowyer also acted as a bookie for what court papers described only as “a professional baseball player

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