Riccio had Dr Johnson’s ANS boob tape for sale, then HKS sued him or had Leroy send a cease & desist. Sounds like it was HKS who sicced the fibbees on Riccio.
LOS ANGELES - After he spent an hour describing a video of Anna Nicole Smith’s breast implant surgery, Thomas Riccio sensed FBI agents had little interest in hearing what he wanted to talk about next: O.J. Simpson’s plan to burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and recover items he believed were stolen from him.
“They didn’t want to be involved in another weird celebrity case,” Riccio said the FBI agents told him. “They said call the police.”
He did, Riccio said, and after they expressed little interest he helped Simpson carry out the Sept. 13 raid on a Las Vegas casino-hotel room that led to the former football star’s arrest.
“I went along with O.J.’s plan,” the memorabilia dealer told The Associated Press on Friday. “It was a self-organized sting operation. Except for the final result, with him bringing people who had guns. I knew nothing about that.”
FBI reports obtained by The Associated Press on Friday confirm Riccio did indeed talk to the agency about Simpson’s plans. But the confrontation that would unfold the following month was described in generic terms, with no details on where and when it would occur, who would be involved or how it would unfold, according to the documents.
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.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller also said Riccio did not indicate a crime would be committed.
Simpson, 60, and five other men were arrested after storming the Las Vegas hotel room 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.
Las Vegas Police Detective Andy Caldwell, the investigator handling the case, said the FBI did not alert his department before the confrontation between Simpson and collectors Alfred Beardsley and Bruce Fromong.
“They contacted us afterward and provided us with the documentation,” Caldwell told the AP.
Simpson is charged with an assortment of felonies including armed robbery and kidnapping. A preliminary hearing is scheduled next week in Las Vegas.
Defense lawyer Mark Geragos, who’s not involved in the case, said the FBI reports help Simpson’s case because they support his contention that he wanted to retrieve his memorabilia.
“For a defendant it doesn’t get better in a state case than this,” Geragos said. “This whole case goes to his state of mind and this is the best evidence you could get.”
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_7357573
I understood the *boob surgery tape* was not stolen and its distribution by the doctor (or his wife) would have been a civil matter.
Did the FBI think perhaps more of Anna’s belongings were being *laundered* through Riccio - by way of KE & HK$? Were they looking for more incriminating porno tapes, jewelry etc., evidence of extortion, blackmail?