Bill Wasz says he never intended to carry out the contract hit he was paid for. He claims he was paid by O.J. Simpson's friend and attorney, Robert Kardashian, to kill Nicole Brown Simpson in January 1996. All he wanted to do was to take Kardashian's money and run.
Now all he wants to do is help put Kardashian behind bars, perhaps in the same prison he is now sitting in. There is supposed to be honor among thieves, and Wasz claims Kardashian has none.
In an interview from state prison in California yesterday, Wasz made it very clear that he does not want anything in return for the evidence he has on Kardashian. That evidence not only implicates Kardashian in the Simpson murder, it also includes participation in organized crime activities.
"I just want to see him go down. That's all. All these guys playing golf in Beverly Hills laughing about me doing 20 freaking years when they have no concept of honor and dignity where they could at least, if they're going to let me do all this time, and if I have this knowledge, they could at least look out for me, which they didn't. You know what I mean. They have no integrity. I have no qualms at all about helping them go down. I've got 20, I'd like to see them do 50. I would really enjoy that. So, that's all I want," explained Wasz.
"I'm going to do this time and that's fine. I accept that. I can get out in five and a half
years. But if they go down with 20 or 30, great. I have peace of mind then don't I. Then I win regardless whether I'm sitting in this concrete box or not. I win. And that's what I want to do. I want to win this game," he stated very emphatically.
Wasz has become nothing more than a footnote in the trial of the century. In August of 1994, he came forward with an offer to provide evidence that Kardashian paid him to kill Nicole Brown Simpson. By then he was already behind bars, and detectives did a preliminary interview. Wasz was painted as a non-credible witness and no further efforts were made to pursue the evidence he had.
No one from any law enforcement agency has met with Wasz since then. Recently, Lawrence Longo, attorney for Wasz, sent an attorney proffer to deputy district attorney Curtis Hazell who expressed an interest in the evidence and agreed to interview Wasz. That was in March and to date nothing has happened.
Someone sent a copy of that attorney proffer to WorldNetDaily with a note expressing dismay that the information was being covered up. After an article about the possible cover-up appeared in WorldNetDaily in April, Longo says Hazell agreed by phone to get the investigation moving. Still, Wasz has not had a visit from the detectives who were appointed to interview him.
Wasz doesn't believe they will ever interview him, nor will they ever use his evidence.
"Why would they? They put it under the rug. If they come down here they'd be acknowledging they did wrong in '94. Their best response is no response, and in this case I believe that's it. They're just going to hope that it goes away. It went away in '94 even though the evidence was out. They hope it will go away now," said Wasz.
Criminal justice author Joseph Bosco has been working with Wasz for a year trying to get his story and evidence taken seriously. Bosco was a guest on a http://talkusa.com "Talk USA Investigative Reports yesterday and said that he still has hope that Hazell will pursue the investigation.
"I know they've opened a file and assigned two detectives to interview Wasz, but they
haven't done it yet," said Bosco on the show. District Attorney Gil Garcetti has to find a way to save face for not taking Wasz seriously in 1994, according to Bosco.
This is not a just a case of one man's word against another. There are police records tying Wasz to the theft of the camera, gun, and car. Wasz says Kardashian ordered those thefts.
"Every aspect of the story is backed up," explained Bosco. "In other words it can be shown that Wasz did do business with Kardashian, he did sell them cocaine, they did meet at the Roxbury, he did the surveillance of Nicole Brown Simpson on January 6 and 7, 1994. There's a witness to this. He did turn over two rolls of undeveloped film to Robert Kardashian, taking an envelope with cash in it. There's proof of that.
He did move into the Saharan Motel after being given this assignment to steal Paula Barbieri's car. We have those records, we have the phone records. It leads right up to January 14, the day Wasz says all this other business they've been through is when Robert Kardashian told him, or gave him, or asked him, or solicited him, however you want to say it, to kill Nicole Brown Simpson. Now understand, there are only two people and God who heard that conversation."
Because the crime of solicitation to commit murder is so difficult to prove, simply because there are rarely any witnesses, California has a statute to deal with it, according to Longo. In such a case, the jury will be instructed to weigh the evidence surrounding the incident to determine who to believe in a situation where it is one man's word against another.
Bosco says he has more optimism that there will be an investigation than Wasz has. "I have reason to believe that it is going to go forward, and that there is going to be an investigation. A governmental law enforcement body, quite likely even still the DA, is going to do something about this. Maybe it's because I'm an eternal optimist, but I know that there are good people under Mr. Garcetti. And there are good people under Mr. Bernie Parks, chief of police out here. I believe they will eventually do the
right thing."
Wasz is pleased that he has both Longo and Bosco trying to help him, and he doesn't mind that they may use this case to further their own careers.
"Anyone who tells me they don't have an agenda, they're freakin' lying. They have
their agenda. What they're trying to do is obviously career advantage for themselves, and also bring out the truth at the same time. So be it. I do question their strategy and their tactic. It's obviously a really hard situation to get out because you're going up against a millionaire, you're going up against an extremely influential agency who wants this to go away. And the public doesn't want to hear any more of that. You know, about what happened in June (the Simpson and Goldman murders). And I don't know a stinking thing about what happened in June. I can only tell you what happened in January," said Wasz.
He claims the knowledge and evidence he has about the alleged organized crime activity of Kardashian and others is extensive. Wasz is surprised he hasn't heard from the FBI. He says he would be happy to give any federal investigators the evidence he has on the other crimes he claims Kardashian has committed.
"I ripped him off. That was my whole intention at the time. I never had any fondness of the man. A little bit arrogant, pompous to me," Wasz said of Kardashian. He believes Kardashian did not help him when he got caught committing thefts for Kardashian, so now Wasz wants the satisfaction of seeing Kardashian behind bars.
"They could use me as a catalyst, or maybe the cherry on the sundae. I don't know," said Wasz of his value to a federal investigation. No one from any federal agency has ever contacted him, but Wasz says he would welcome that opportunity. What information could he give to a potential federal investigation?
"I got a lot. I got a vault. I was pretty deep in it, knowledge wise," Wasz explained. He said he could not be specific on a prison phone call that was being recorded.
Does Wasz know who was hired to replace him when he failed to carry out the contract to murder Simpson?
"That's all speculation. I probably know who was involved, but that's all speculation," he said.
What if he had it to do over again? Would he have accepted the contract from Kardashian?
"I can't say on a recorded call. He wouldn't be on a golf course, he'd be underneath it.
That's all I've got to say," said Wasz.
Kardashian could not be reached for comment.
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