The New York Times reported in October 2026 on previously sealed federal records involving Joseph "Joey" Ippolito, a convicted drug trafficker identified as the "Charlie" of If I Did It. The records show Ippolito escaped a Florida prison in May 1994 and was a fugitive when the murders happened, and include a December 4, 1996 letter to Judge Kimba Wood crediting him with substantial assistance against drug traffickers and La Cosa Nostra, which Wood called one of the strongest she had ever received. A marshal found a phone number for Ippolito's prison mess hall in Cowlings' wallet, and Fat Joe said on a podcast that Ippolito waited at an airport with a private jet to fly Simpson out. Sam Ippolito…