letters of myself. so i told him i would really like to get this stuff. so after a period of time through what he described in court as the perfect storm, we all ended up in las vegas. you know, i was there for a wedding and he told me that the property was there. and would i like to try to get the property. i said of course i would like to get the property. he told me the names of what he thought were the people in the room and i realized these are friends of mine, you know? actually guys who helped me move, helped me move and store some of this stuff. right? so on the day of this incident, he came to my hotel to talk about how this would take place. i told him i met with a lawyer last night, and my sister and my daughter and some other friends and discussed it. i pointed out another lawyer
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
if we were able to do that, you would have never heard about this. none of us would be here today. okay. and lastly, i d like you toe to know that we receive hundreds of letters of support and opposition, and while we always encourage public input, the majority of the opposition letters are asking us to consider your 1995 acquittal and subsequent civil judgment, however, these items will not be considered in this case. thank you. thank you. thank you. all right, mr. simpson. when we fire hydrant oefrsd parole, one conditions is to pay court-ordered restitution to the victims of the crime. according to the judgment and conviction this-in this case, you and your co-defendants were ordered to pay $3,560 in restitution and return 12 montana lithographs to the victims. can you tell us the status of the restitution and the return of the property taken during the robbery? well, one, i was unaware of
screw o.j., we re going to keep this stuff. i mean, this is his testimony in court. the last thing i heard is that he actually tried to use those prints as, you know the word, i can t find the word to get his bail, with his bail bondman. he was trying to use it as i can t think of the word. restitution. restitution for the bail bond. so the last that i know of these lithographs was that this cashmore had them i didn t know this guy, that he had them, and he testified to the fact in court that he had them. the restitution was paid. the restitution was paid, i m told by my lawyer. yes. so the the restitution has been paid and there is no pending the property has been returned, the lithographs as well? i have no idea what this