FBI Knew About O.J. Caper

Ooooh, this is just like some Agatha Christie novel! Well, it would be if Miss Marple was wasting her time dealing with small time crooks setting up scams involving sweat stained jerseys. Superfan Thomas Riccio says he played Phone Tag with the FBI to let them know there was going to be a shakedown as the Juice planned to get his stuff back and even make a little tape, just in case Pay-Per-View came a knockin’:

Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Dealer Thomas Riccio said he reported to the FBI on Aug. 21 that a collector claimed to have belongings taken from Simpson, and that Simpson wanted to videotape the confrontation with the person peddling thousands of pieces of his memorabilia. “The guy flat-out told me he had items stolen from O.J.’s house,” Riccio told the AP. “I have a legitimate business.” FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said Riccio did not indicate a crime would be committed. “I went along with O.J.’s plan,” Riccio said. “It was a self-organized sting operation. Except for the final result, with him bringing people who had guns. I knew nothing about that.” “Riccio and Simpson want to do a television broadcast confronting Beardsley regarding the items that were stolen,” one report said. “Simpson wanted Riccio’s assistance in setting up the operation and helping obtain interviews for Simpson through various media outlets after the fact.”

O.J. Simpson is the only person in the world who would decide to take the law into his own like he was some football wielding justice vigilante. Someone about decapitated his ex-wife and he yawns it off but the theft of his old trophies and pics? Not on his watch, buster. Not while he still has blood coursing through those black leather clad hands of his. Nobody is gonna squeeze the Juice for NFL memorabilia that he could be selling for money to woo white women with.