Saturday, October 4, 2008

O.J. Simpson Found Guilty


BREAKING NEWS: O.J. Simpson was found guilty last night on 12 counts including armed robbery and kidnapping.

BEHIND THE NEWS: O.J. Simpson and his co-defendant, Clarence "CJ" Stewart can spend the rest of their lives in jail when the sentencing is handed down on December 5. The verdict was reached 13 years to the day he was aquitted of killing Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

On September 13, 2007, Simpson and four others stormed into a hotel room in Las Vegas trying to recover memorabilia that allegedly belonged to OJ. The victims said that two of the 4 brought guns. OJ and his accomplices took the memorabilia from the room that night and left.

Here is some insight of that night I learned from reading the book "How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret and Remorse" written by Mike Gilbert. He was OJ's former manager of 20+ years. Gilbert had in his possession the memorabilia that was taken from the hotel room that night in September. He helped OJ hide it from the the feds when he lost his civil lawsuit because it was going to go to the Goldman's. Gilbert hid the memorabilia in multiple storages with OJ's approval and consent. There was a particular storage that was owned by Gilbert with a friend of his, Alfred Beardsley. He is one of the guys in the hotel room that night. One day, the storage company tried contacting Gilbert and he could not be reached. Instead they contacted Beardsley since his name is on the contract. Beardsley opened the storage and took the memorabilia from the storage and that is how he got the stuff that OJ wanted.

Something that was taken that night was the suit OJ wore when he was aquitted in 1995. That suit was given to Mike Gilbert by OJ Simpson at the request of Gilbert.

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