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I don’t want “Gavel Chat” to become “OJ Chat,” but I am going to try and keep you all up to date on what I am hearing The Juice's latest troubles. I happened to catch Tom Riccio on Larry King last night and I think I finally figured out what actually took place.

I was blogging yesterday about how that Alexander character said that Riccio was setting up OJ, and after watching the Larry King segment last night, I don’t really buy that. As a matter of fact, I don’t know how he even thought that was what was going on in the first place.

Timeline: -The guys with the stolen goods call Riccio at his auction house (Universal Rarities) to unload the merchandise.
-Riccio called the police, and from what I understand, the cops didn’t want to touch it as it was going to be a federal matter and not a state issue. (because this was all going to take place in Nevada and not the same state that Riccio was calling)
-Riccio then called OJ to tell him that he found his goods and he was excited and wanted the stuff back.
-Riccio set up a meeting with the Juice to discuss what was going to take place at the Palms in Vegas.
-All that was going to happen is OJ was supposed to go into the hotel room at Palace Station and ask for his stuff back. The men could either return the goods to Simpson or have to face the Vegas police.

What happened after this is what I don’t understand and makes me wonder how sane Simpson is.
Riccio was in the hotel with the “victims” (who possessed the memorabilia) and in comes OJ and his crew.
OJ and company confronts the men with the memorabilia and they start to turn the stuff over to him.

This is where it gets odd. The guys in OJ’s crew started packing up the stolen goods, but also nabbed a Joe Montana lithograph that must have been mixed in with the Simpson memorabilia. When one of the victims said that the Montana piece was not OJ’s, all hell broke loose.

Why the heck would they snap and totally lose it because of a $200 Montana litho? OJ faces 11 counts and almost all of them are felonies. I wonder if one of the counts is “stupidity,” and if it is, I wonder if THAT is a felony. If it’s not, it should be.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH THOMAS RICCIO’S APPEARANCE ON GERALDO