O.J. Simpson is pretty good at weaseling his way out of stuff. There were innumerable tackles in the NFL, and more recently, that whole double murder thing. But he couldn't get his way out of robbing/kidnapping in Las Vegas and now he's headed to prison.But he's still wily -- over the past two months, Juice has been buying his future cellmates sundry items from the commissary, likely attempting to make sure that they know he's a really swell guy before they decided to, um, do prison stuff to him.
Simpson's lawyer, Gabriel Grasso, said the former football legend has become somewhat of a jailhouse sugar daddy, buying down-and-out jailhouse friends sweets and snacks.Um, first of all ... what money?Isn't he supposed to still be shilling out cash to the Brown and Goldman families? Or is this just money left over from that awesome book he wrote about doing something or finding killers on golf courses or something?
[...]"O.J. is actually buying stuff for all of these other guys who don't have anybody on the outside (to buy it for them)," he said. "Candy bars, soup, chocolate, whatever you can buy at the commissary he's been actually buying it for them, using his money to buy it for them."
While this is a "smart" play, it's still pretty repugnant -- you did what you did, you got caught for it, a court of law sent you to jail, so now it's time to suck it up and deal with the ramifications. And, yeah, Juice may very well end up with like 10 prison bodyguards, but surely karma has to catch up to him at some point.
H/T: Game On!
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12-12-2008 @ 11:58PM
Fran said...
The Goldman's sued and got all proceeds from the book.
The money they could not touch is his NFL retirement money. Presumably that is what he is using.
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