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July 27, 2005 -- DirecTV can squeeze O.J. Simpson for $25,000 for stealing the signal of its satellite-TV service, a Florida federal judge ruled yesterday.
The ex-gridiron great ? acquitted by a California jury in the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and one of her friends ? had no DirecTV account and admitted in court that he had two devices designed to steal its signal, the company said.
Authorities raided Simpson's home on Dec. 4, 2001 as part of an investigation of satellite-TV piracy in Dade County, Fla., where he now lives.
"The evidence was overwhelming," said Dan Fawcett, a DirecTV executive vice president.
"The devices seized in Simpson's home were connected to his TV and in operation and receiving unauthorized signals at the time of the raid."
Simpson could not be reached for comment.
DirecTV will have to get in line if they hope to collect any money.
A California civil jury in 1997 found Simpson liable for the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, and ordered him to pay $33.5 million to their survivors.
The Brown and Goldman families have collected only a few hundred thousand dollars of the judgment, and Simpson lives off a football pension which has been reported at $25,000 a month ? and which by law is protected from attachment in a civil suit.
