So It Was A Set Up?

Doesn't the FBI have anything better to do that track crazy O.J. and his old memorabilia.

Federal agents knew three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned a sting operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Dealer Thomas Riccio told FBI agents Aug. 21 that Simpson wanted to televise the operation as he confronted a collector who was peddling thousands of pieces of Simpson memorabilia.

Riccio told The Associated Press on Friday that the FBI dismissed his report, telling him "they didn't want to be involved in another weird celebrity case."

"They said call the police," Riccio said, adding he got the run-around when he did.

According to the FBI, Riccio was advised to contact a lawyer before taking any action and was warned that alerting the agency would not absolve him of any potential crime.

"I went along with O.J.'s plan," Riccio told the AP. "It was a self-organized sting operation. Except for the final result, with him bringing people who had guns. I knew nothing about that."

Simpson, 60, and five other men were arrested after the Sept. 13 raid to seize items that were believed to include family photos and the suit Simpson wore the day he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.

Here's the thing that has always bothered me over the question of his guilt or innocence. I frankly don't think that O.J. has sense enough to pull of the "perfect crime" and get away with murder - dream team lawyers or not. His reckless, ill-conceived antics in this case are more what I would have expected to be the case with the murders. My mom and I have always argued that he's just too dumb and if Leopold and Loeb couldn't pull it off, O.J. certainly couldn't have. What's more, anyone with real sense would have left the country (as Leopold did when he was released on parole) and gone into exile someplace. Stupid is as stupid does and this whole "gimmie my stuff back" escapade was just plain stupid!

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