O.J.'S NAME CROPS UP IN DRUG-DEALING TRIAL OF TOLEDO MAN

MIAMI - An Ecstasy dealer supplied the illegal drug to retired football
star O.J. Simpson and six other people, an FBI agent testified yesterday at
a federal drug conspiracy trial.

FBI agent Chris Piersza testified at the trial of Toledo developer Mark
Nowakowski, who is among nine people indicted in November on
drug-distribution conspiracy charges. Mr. Simpson was not indicted, but his
house was searched by the FBI.

Simpson attorney Yale Galanter denied his client received even a single
Ecstasy pill from the admitted dealer, Andrew Anderson, who was known to
Mr. Simpson as Adrian Burke. "If any FBI agent is claiming that O.J.
Simpson actually took possession of any narcotic at all, he is greatly
mistaken," Mr. Galanter said.

Released in December from jail in Miami on a $100,000 bond, Mr. Nowakowski
is accused of taking part in an international ring that imported large
amounts of Ecstasy from Holland in the last two years.

Charged with drug conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute, he
faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors allege the popular Toledo developer, who has an office in
Springfield Township, is among the defendants who distributed the
mood-altering drug in South Florida, especially among the club-goers in one
of the nation's premier winter hot spots: South Beach.

Co-defendants John Thorburn and Anderson pleaded guilty rather than go to
trial. Thorburn testified he was the middleman in the sale of Ecstasy
obtained from Anderson and sold to Mr. Nowakowski.