Thomas Riccio of Universal Rarities

[kingjammy24]

Thomas Riccio is co-owner of Universal Rarities auction house. He's the guy who informed OJ that Beardsley was trying to sell his items. Oddly enough, Riccio just happened to also record the entire incident. Anyway, I found this interesting info about Riccio:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0918072riccio1.html

what a swell guy! i wonder if any other auction house owners have such colorful pasts.

rudy.

[Eric]

According to the reports, he not only recorded the whole thing- instead of turning the recording over to the police he sold it to TMZ.

[mvandor]

Guy came across like real slime on the news...

[toddhead]

Kind of makes you feel bad for O.J. doesn't it? Getting set up like that... poor guy doesn't deserve something like this happening to him...;)

[DConLA]

I'LL GIVE HIM A CALL AND SEE IF HE'S SHARING THE MONEY HE JUST GOT FROM TMZ WITH OJ? AFTER ALL HE JUST HELPED HIM GET BUSTED I'M SURE HE GOT GOOD MONEY FOR HIS RECORDING.DOES ANYONE WANT TO BUY HIS PHONE NUMBER?NEVER MIND HE'LL PROBLEY SELL THAT 2 U TO.THIS IS NOT GOOD P.R. FOR U R OR IS IT.AND ISN'T IT A FEDERAL OFFENCE TO RECORD SOMEONE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION.

DAN 323 257-4898 daniel248@earthlink.net

[DConLA]

DAM TOM YOUR SO COLORFUL AND I THOUGHT U WERE SO BORING THE GUYS ARE REALLY GOING TO LIKE U ON THE INSIDE.ONE MORE TIME I GUESS U KNOW THE DRILL.

DAN 323 257-4898 daniel248@earthlink.net

[DConLA]

JUST READ SMOKINGGUN.COM FROM THE 1ST POST INTERESTING.AND JUST SAW LARRY KING LIVE AND EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM IS POINTING THE FINGER AT TOM AND SAID THAT TOM SET UP EVERYBODY AND THEN HE TAPED IT AND SOLD IT TO TMZ.THAT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD IF ALL TOM WAS TRYING TO DO WAS HELP OJ RECOVER HIS BELONGINGS SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS TRYING TO MAKE MONEY OF THE TAPES NOW OR LATER

DAN 323 257-4898 daniel248earthlink.com

[worldchamps]

WOW..that smoking gun article is crazy, now I will always suspect the one thing I bought from them......and as you can assume, I will never buy from them again.