A Hawaii real estate investor and broker are suing Shohei Ohtani, claiming the Los Angeles Dodgers star and his agent got them fired from a $240 million luxury housing development on the Big Island’s coveted Hapuna Coast that they brought him in to endorse.

The lawsuit comes shortly after Ohtani's former interpreter began a five-year prison sentence for defrauding the Dodgers star

A n attorney suing Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has suggested the possibility that the five-time All Star's agent might have "misled" him in a Hawaii real estate business relationship gone sour.