I'm sure this "investigation" had a lot of top MLB people, lawyers, etc, doing their best to make sure this doesn't fall negatively on Ohtani in any way. I doubt we'll ever know the real story, but imo, this has been spun and fixed up to the best of their ability. From the get go, I think the outcome was predetermined, it was just a matter of how they were going to spin it and reach that outcome.
No way MLB was going to take a hit like this, so it has been fixed up and sold to the public. I wonder what the interpreter got out of this financially and what kind of reduced sentence he was guaranteed for helping the outcome?
I am not saying that my opinion is fact, but this entire thing is fishy.