they did an investigation. and they came to the conclusion that it was my property. they turned it over to me. i have it now, you know. so, i mean, it s kind of mind-boggling that they turned over the me property that i m in jail for, for trying to retrieve. you know? it was my property. i wasn t there to steal from anybody. and i would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody. the property is yours. it s been ruled legally by the state of california that it was my property and they ve given it to me. i have it. that s why you went into the hotel room? you knew the property was yours. is that right? that s right. when riccio was calling me just telling me this i wasn t interested. it wasn t until he got actual pictures of what they supposedly had and because it was family photos and stuff, that s when i
the guys, bruce here, i didn t know it was him, i thought it was another guy named mike, a friend of his, ex-partner of his, but i said i don t need any security. well, late they re day when they arrived at his hotel and spread out my property, he called and he said they re here, if you come here i ll meet you in the lobby, and you need security, o.j. this guy beardsley, big guy, and he s a little weird, you know. i think anybody that noes him knows he s a little different. i still told him this guy s not dangerous, man, but he says, man, bring some security. during the day when he was there, he met people from the wedding and one guy, mcclinton, said he did security in las vegas and it would help his business if he could have me as a client. i told him i didn t need him but after he insisted that i bring security i said i could use your help. i went to the hotel.
i met with riccio in the lobby. the two guys, they also met us there, which was a big mistake, obviously. i realize that quite soon after this. and mr. riccio led us to his room, put the key in the door and let us in. i know i ve seen the last two or three days the media reporting we broke in the room. we didn t break into any room. mr. riccio brought us into that room. when i came into the room, i notice spread out everywhere was my personal property. you know? the only thing i saw that was on display that wasn t mine was some baseballs, and i made it clear to everybody, those are not mine. all i want is my property and i think there s a tape of it, you hear me on it at least three or four occasions say i just want my property. go forward, try to make it a little quicker, at some point we started when we were leaving the room after i was being pushed out of the room by the
security guys because while i was in there and i recognized bruce was there, i was surprised to see him as he testified, i was shocked really to see him. bruce has been friend of mine. he s traveled with me. we deechb a lot of business together over the years. and i said, man, what are you doing here, you know? he explained to me why he was there and why he had my property there and i told him, but, geez, you should have told me. i accepted i understood why. you know, it was 06, 07, people were losing their homes. a guy owed them money, couldn t pay him the money, gave him my property to sell. i told him i understood that, but you still should have told me. we had a chance to talk about this at a later date and he apologized, i accepted his apology, i apologized for these two guys that got pointed that a gun at him. he s traveled with me. he s known me when i ve had
got interested in going there and i only went there to retrieve my own property. so what were you thinking when guns were being brandished? well, i didn t see the guns. you say guns. as i understand it, one guy who s behind me somewhere pointed a gun at him so, i never saw him brandish a gun. when i left there, i called back to the room to ask bruce, you said there were some pictures, what did you have? and i asked him did this walter alexander return his cell phone. he told me no and he says, o.j., wasn t cool i got pointed a gun at me. i said who pointed a gun at you? he says that kind of described who it was. to be honest, i didn t really believe him at the time. i asked the three guys i was with. they all said they didn t see him do it. i got back to my hotel. we waited for these two security guys to show up, and the minute they drove up, the fist thing i said, man, did you pull a gun in