Part 7

PART 7: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1998

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THE O.J. COVER-UP -- Part 7
How did Wasz get overlooked? Police knew about him from the start.
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Editor's note: This is the seventh part of
an ongoing series of stories based on a
seven-month WorldNetDaily investigation
into the events surrounding the murder of
Nicole Brown Simpson. The investigation
includes exclusive interviews, conducted
in person and by telephone, with key
witness Bill Wasz, now serving time in a
high-security prison for other crimes.
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By David M. Bresnahan
© 1998, WorldNetDaily.com

When Bill Wasz first saw the news about the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman he expected he would soon be drawn into the investigation. He was right, but the results were not what he expected.

Six months earlier he was arrested and police found a notebook detailing surveillance of Nicole. They did not see any importance to the notebook at the time, but kept it as evidence.

"If I waited and the cops pieced together what happened in January, then I ran the risk of being prosecuted and furthering my troubles even more," he explained in an exclusive prison interview with WorldNetDaily.

"Waiting to see what would happen would be suicide, because one of many things could happen, and I would be left swinging in the wind," said Wasz. He decided to become proactive and not wait for the police to come looking for him.

Wasz called his attorney, public defender Joann Harrold, and told her about the notebook being held by police. He didn't explain how the notebook originated, but he did explain what it contained. What was her reaction?

"Well, lawyers being lawyers, she immediately stated that the objective was to obtain a photocopy of this evidence before it was found out by the cops that they even had it," said Wasz. "Mainly to sell the photocopies to the highest bidder before someone in the cop shop did, which they did on many things in that case.

"I concurred, because the amount of money she was projecting was such that I could retain a decent criminal lawyer who could help me, not only in the dilemma of O.J., but my current case of multiple armed robberies."

Wasz learned never to trust anyone, so when his lawyer told him that "A Current Affair" had offered $50,000 for a copy of the notebook, he called the show himself and found out the real offer was $75,000. He dumped Harrold and hired John Stewart.

Stewart told Wasz of his friends in the Newport Beach Police Department who would help him.

"It was about two days later when he told me over the phone that he not only had copies, but the actual notepad itself," recalled Wasz. "I panicked."

Stewart told Wasz that he had an offer of $125,000 from a media source for the notebook itself. Photocopies would not get that kind of money, he claimed.

"He told me that he told the cops that he was my criminal lawyer, and since he already knew some of the cops there, they gave him the damn notepad and my bullet-holed and bloody clothes," said Wasz.

Stewart quickly found himself in extremely hot water. Newport Beach police accused him of taking the notebook under false pretenses and threatened to complain to the California Bar Association.

"He had that knowledge and never said anything," said Newport Beach Police Sgt. Andy Gonis, quoted in a Los Angeles Times story. "He misled us when he stated he was the attorney of record and when he claimed to be retrieving his client's personal belongings."

Stewart quickly handed over the notebook to the Los Angeles Police Department and explained the tie to the murder investigation.

"We believe at the very least his conduct was inappropriate," Gonis said at the time.

"I never tried to sell the notebook,"Stewart told the Los Angeles Times. "But I was trying to see if there was value to the story."

He would not tell reporters what was in the note pad. All he would say was, "If it's legit, it's interesting."

"Stewart showed up at the jail the next morning at 6 a.m. sweating and shaking,"described Wasz. "I never saw a lawyer awake and on his job at 6 a.m. He was scared. The cops had threatened him with criminal charges. Never have I seen a lawyer as worried as he was that morning. Terrified was more the word."

First the police came from Newport Beach to investigate Stewart. Soon after the police from the LAPD arrived to ask about the note pad and the theft of Paula Barbieri's truck.

"I gave no statement besides that I took the truck, and that was it," said Wasz.

Police documents obtained by WorldNetDaily confirm the actions of Stewart, the subsequent investigation, and the interviews of Wasz by various police.

Although Wasz did not tell police the details he has now disclosed, the police report does state, "Robert Kardashian is not what he appears to be."

Wasz says he expected police to investigate and figure everything out for themselves. When police returned to interview him they have had growing files of evidence with them. Evidence which indicated that Wasz was and is telling the truth about being hired by Kardashian to kill Nicole in January 1994.

"What I did not know at that time was that Marcia Clark had ordered them to stop their investigation of me because it did not conform to her plans," explained Wasz. "She thought that she had it all wrapped
up and a conviction secured. So she told the cops that I was to be covered up and discredited."

There are police who disagreed with the way Clark was ignoring the Wasz evidence, and they later made it known to Wasz through a third party.

Wasz did not watch much of the trial, but he did watch the verdict and said he observed Kardashian closely. Could he explain Kardashian's shocked reaction when the verdict was read?

"O.J. told him (Kardashian) to stand by him until the end or he'd tell them everything that went on, not only in January of '94, but what involvement he had in June," explained Wasz. "So he sat next to O.J. out of pure fear that if he abandoned him, O.J. would talk, and talk loud.

"But when the acquittal came in, O.J. no longer held that card against him because it was all over. O.J. could not be retried, ever. He could only be retried if Kardashian or he himself told of the conspiracy to kill the girl previously.

"But only they and I held that information, and they sure as hell will never say anything. And I am a convicted criminal who can easily be discredited.

"But what about the phone records, the note pad, the .25 caliber gun, the truck and other evidence? All factual information that has been suppressed by the cops for over four years. Only a handful of cops and DA's know of the existence to the material fact and the suppression by the higher-ups," claimed Wasz.

WorldNetDaily continues to make efforts to interview Kardashian, but he has never responded to messages left with his secretary.