(Source) - It turns out that Gawker wasn't the only entity desperately trying to buy video footage of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack. According to newly released passages of a sworn police affidavit filed in Toronto court, Mayor Ford may have attempted to purchase the video himself well before Gawker even knew about its existence.
The new allegations are included in a police document put together in order to obtain search warrants for an operation called Project Traveller, an investigation into Toronto's Dixon City Bloods gang. The document includes extensive summaries of police wiretaps, which is how police went from investigating just a local street gang to investigating the elected leader of their city.
One of the wiretaps revealed a conversation between two men, speaking mostly in Somali, discussing the possibility of selling the Rob Ford crack video. One of the men in that conversation, Mohamed Siad, is the drug dealer who met with Gawker's John Cook in an attempt to sell him the footage back in May. "Remember that day he said that in front of me," says Siad on the tape, possibly referencing the mayor or one of the mayor's emissaries. "Ya, he said 'I'll give you five thousand and a car.' What the fuck is that?'" Siad then said he planned to meet Mayor Ford and ask for $150,000 in exchange for the video.
The wiretaps also allegedly exposed gang members accusing Mayor Ford of doing heroin and plans to blackmail Ford if he ever went to the police. The National Post reports in a bullet-pointed breakdown:
- One of the men suspected of peddling the "crack video" of Mr. Ford said he also had pictures of the mayor "doing the hezza," which is a slang term for heroin;
- Alleged gang members said they were not afraid of the mayor turning them in to police because they had pictures of him "on the pipe";
- The mayor's close friend and occasional driver, Alexander Lisi, used purported influence over police as leverage in dealing with a gang, saying if he didn¹t get his way 'the mayor would put heat on Dixon,' which was the gang's territory;
- The mayor's cellphone was stolen while he was at a crack house after late-night calls were made arranging a drug delivery "because Rob Ford wants some drugs;"
- Lisi exchanged marijuana to an alleged gang member for the return of Mr. Ford's stolen phone;
- Mr. Ford appears might been set up by drug dealers videoing him consuming drugs knowing it could be valuable, raising the spectre of blackmail;
- A man involved with alleged drug dealers said they "love and respect Rob Ford" but also "have Rob Ford on a lot of fucked up situations" so the mayor's friends should be careful.
Just when you think Rob Ford can't do it up any bigger he comes out and one-ups the fuck out of himself by "doing the hezza" aka using heroine for shits and giggles. Seriously, how can anybody be mad at this guy? Last time I checked Toronto wasn't going bankrupt like Detroit. People aren't getting gunned down on every corner like Chicago. Hell, it's not even close to being the crime capital of Canada. That's Winnipeg's game. By all accounts, Toronto is pretty well off.
Am I the only one that's legit impressed that Rob Ford has successfully been running this city from the back room of a crack den? Bill hear, pipe there. Managing crime from the inside with his boys in the gangs. Literally spending one on one bro time with the major gang leaders in the city, keeping them under his thumb while they haplessly try to blackmail him. Um you think Rob Ford gives a fuck if you have a video of him hittin' that hezza? Um hello, I was shitfaced bro. I always get fucked up and do crazy drugs, did you not know that? You know that means it doesn't count right? Guy just isn't getting enough credit for what he's been doing. And all the while entertaining the masses with each new public appearance. I don't know how he does it.*
*the crack probably helps
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