From: Solitairea1
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Time: 08:27:26 PM
From AFOJS: =========== 1. marg0349Aug 10 1997, 1 00 am show optionsNewsgro ups: alt.fan.oj-si mpsonFrom: marg0...@aol.c om - Find messages by this author ============= Date: 1997/08/10Subject: Goldman's wife/fmr. husband/mob connectedReply to Author ============= 1. marg0349 Aug 10 1997, 1:00 am show options Newsgroups: alt.fan.oj-simpsonFrom: marg0...@aol.com - Find messages by this author Date: 1997/08/10Subject: Goldman's wife/fmr. husband/mob connectedReply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse ============ Turns out that one member of Ron Goldman's family had some experience with the criminal-justice system before the O.J case: Patty Goldman, Fred Goldman's current wife and Ron's stepmother, was previously married to the notorious Marvin Glass, who died last week. Once a high-flying Chicgo lawyer, Glass was accused in the mid-eighties of being in cahoots with his drug-dealer clients, acting as a middleman for a $I00-million marijuana-and-cocaine-smuggling ring and then racking up huge legal fees when his cronies got busted. Charged with racketeering in Chicago, he was prosecuted by novelist-cum-lawyer Scott Turow, who denounced Glass in 1986 as a "one-man crime wave" and called a witness who testified that Glass paid him $2,500 to shoot an ex-partner. Hit by a truck on a Flordia highway the year before, Glass was confined to a wheel-chair throughtout the proceedings, which Patti attended loyally every day, a spooky precursor of her role in the O.J. trials a decade later. Glass, who evidently contracted HIV while recovering from his Florida accident, died of pneumonia in Chicago on May 16. He had three children with Patti, who divorced him after the trial and married Fred. ny magazine 6/2/97 -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet ============= 2. Robert C. Miller Aug 11 1997, 1:00 am show options Newsgroups: alt.fan.oj-simpsonFrom: "Robert C. Miller" <robertcarlmillerdalyc...@worldnet.att.net> - Find messages by this author Date: 1997/08/11Subject: Re: Goldman's wife/fmr. husband/mob connected =========== Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - ============ marg0...@aol.com wrote: Turns out that one member of Ron Goldman's family had some experience with the criminal-justice system before the O.J case: Patty Goldman, Fred Goldman's current wife and Ron's stepmother, was previously married to the notorious Marvin Glass, who died last week. Once a high-flying Chicgo lawyer, Glass was accused in the mid-eighties of being in cahoots with his drug-dealer clients, acting as a middleman for a $I00-million marijuana-and-cocaine-smuggling ring and then racking up huge legal fees when his cronies got busted. Charged with racketeering in Chicago, he was prosecuted by novelist-cum-lawyer Scott Turow, who denounced Glass in 1986 as a "one-man crime wave" and called a witness who testified that Glass paid him $2,500 to shoot an ex-partner. Hit by a truck on a Flordia highway the year before, Glass was confined to a wheel-chair throughtout the proceedings, which Patti attended loyally every day, a spooky precursor of her role in the O.J. trials a decade later. Glass, who evidently contracted HIV while recovering from his Florida accident, died of pneumonia in Chicago on May 16. He had three children with Patti, who divorced him after the trial and married Fred. ny magazine 6/2/97 -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet ============== [This is exactly what I mean about background being foreground. I find it quite intriguing that it took this long for someone to notice that connection to the mob, considering the allegations of drug connections that were constantly being beaten down by the prosecution-friendly media. [While it does not immediately clarify anything at the scene of the crime, it does suggest a closer examination of the cast of characters at the Mezzalunas (the one in LA and the one in Colorado where Nicole met Kato and Grant Cramer). It may also explain Goldman's behavior. He may have reasons to act out over and above any outrage he may be able to generate. -bob]