A convicted drug trafficker with ties to the mafia may have helped O.J. Simpson cowl up the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, according to a bombshell New York Times investigation that uncovered secret federal information and allegations that the man returned from the night time of the killings with blood on his fingers.

Joseph “Joey” Ippolito, a mob-connected affiliate of Simpson and his longtime good friend Al Cowlings, allegedly returned to a Los Angeles residence around midnight on June 12, 1994, carrying a mysterious bag containing a heavy object, his brother Sam Ippolito instructed the Times in an account that has raised questions, as properly as some doubts.

The investigation also uncovered beforehand sealed federal courtroom information revealing that Ippolito had offered authorities with data about Simpson’s alleged disposal of the homicide weapon, which was never recovered.

Joseph “Joey” Ippolito is a drug trafficker who reportedly had ties to OJ Simpson and was a authorities informant. U.S. Department of Justice

Sam Ippolito claimed his brother appeared to have blood on his fingers after leaving the residence hours earlier to assist a good friend. Joey allegedly stuffed his garments into the bag and instructed Sam to dispose of it while he showered.

Sam Ippolito instructed the newspaper he tossed the bag into a dumpster close to a development website alongside Doheny Drive in Los Angeles.

He also claimed to have overheard Joey telling Cowlings over the telephone that he had been “helping” Simpson that night time.

Joey Ippolito, a convicted drug trafficker who escaped from a Florida jail in May 1994, turned a federal informant after his arrest in August 1995, while Simpson’s nationally televised homicide trial was nearing its conclusion.

Simpson, left, and legal professional Johnnie Cochran Jr. during Simpson’s homicide trial, Monday, Aug. 7, 1995 in Los Angeles. AFP via Getty Images

A December 1996 federal prosecution memorandum, not too long ago unsealed at the newspaper’s request, described Ippolito as a priceless supply who possessed data about Simpson’s alleged efforts to dispose of the homicide weapon and his tried flight from authorities.

Then-federal prosecutor David Kelley described Ippolito in the letter as a “remarkable source of information” whose cooperation had confirmed priceless to investigators. When the newspaper spoke to Kelley not too long ago, he said that he did not believe Joey Ippolito was concerned in the killings.The Times reported that the information present that data from Joey Ippolito was shared with Los Angeles prosecutors during Simpson’s homicide trial, although he was never called to testify.

Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson attending a profit in New York in 1989. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images

Former prosecutor Marcia Clark instructed the Times she had no data of Joey Ippolito and maintained that she would have been knowledgeable if he had offered credible or related proof.

The account from Joey Ippolito’s brother has come under scrutiny.

After sustaining his allegations for months, Sam Ippolito reportedly sought compensation from the Times and later tried to retract his statements, claiming he could no longer distinguish what was actual from what was not.

The Simpson household at the movie premiere of “Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult” in 1994. WireImage

Simpson putts on a new pair of gloves related to the notorious bloody gloves during his double-murder trial in LA, 1995. AP

Friends and kinfolk of Joey Ippolito, who died in 2006, have also disputed strategies that he participated in the murders.

Cowlings did not reply to the newspaper’s request for remark by the time of its article’s publication.

The newly uncovered data raises contemporary questions about whether Simpson had assist on the night time Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were stabbed to dying outside her Los Angeles house.

Simpson was acquitted of their murders in 1995 but was later discovered liable for their deaths in a civil trial. He died in April 2024 at age 76.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to the Times that the decades-old double-murder case stays an open investigation.

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