水原容疑者の罪状認否は急きょ5月14日に延期されました。
米連邦検察のマーティン・エストラーダ氏によると，これまで報道されていた以外に同容疑者はあるとあらゆる手を用いいて大谷選手から金を搾りとっていたとのこと。今更ながら，もうどうしようもない人物だったようです。
As well as the millions siphoned out of Ohtani's account to pay off gambling debt, Mizuhara also bought $325,000 worth of baseball cards on eBay and other online resellers in order to flip them and profit himself. In September 2023, Ohtani agreed to pay for Mizuhara's $60,000 dental work and provided him with a check. Instead, according to prosecutors, Mizuhara paid the bill with Ohtani's debit card and deposited the check into his personal account.
Mizuhara also admitted to falsely reporting his taxable income on his IRS tax returns in 2022, resulting in the tax fraud charge. According to the plea deal, Mizuhara falsely claimed he was single when he was in fact married and failed to report additional income of $4,100,000 that year.
搾り取るに相当する容疑者の行為は この記事では siphoned out of Ohtani's account と表現されていました。
コーヒーの愛好家にはおなじみのサイフォンの動詞形です。「英辞郎」は「（資金などを〕抜き取る、吸い取る」と定義し，「Millions of dollars were siphoned from mutual fund investors. : 何百万ドルもの金が投資信託の投資家から吸い上げられた。」という例文を掲載しています。
Cambridge Dictionaryは，"to dishonestly take money from an organization or other supply, and use it for a purpose for which it was not intended: He lost his job when it was discovered that he had been siphoning off money from the company for his own use."と例文つきで説明しています。（UG）