Toronto Police raided the crack house where Rob Ford was filmed. Maybe they have it. The matter is before the courts. We haven't heard the last about this.
Gawker Claims Video Exists of Rob Ford Smoking Crack
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Toronto Police raided the crack house where Rob Ford was filmed. Maybe they have it. The matter is before the courts. We haven't heard the last about this.
You might still say the same thing next election.
Hey your curiosity might get fulfilled soon. The Toronto Sun has suggested that the video is now being leveraged as a get out of jail card by one of the Dixon gang members. The Sun which was a big supporter of Ford has been noticeably backing off from their position.Where is that crack video? Anyone?
I thought the video (whatever was on it) was gone and Ford was reassured by his friends that it was taken care of when he finally made a statement on the topic. Of late - I've read three Sun articles referencing the videos as if it might still be floating around.
Hey your curiosity might get fulfilled soon. The Toronto Sun has suggested that the video is now being leveraged as a get out of jail card by one of the Dixon gang members. The Sun which was a big supporter of Ford has been noticeably backing off from their position.
I thought the video (whatever was on it) was gone and Ford was reassured by his friends that it was taken care of when he finally made a statement on the topic. Of late - I've read three Sun articles referencing the videos as if it might still be floating around.
This is the Sun article:-
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/02...d+crack+video+
Man stabbed over alleged Rob Ford crack video
BY SAM PAZZANO FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 02, 2013 09:39 AM EDT | UPDATED: FRIDAY, AUGUST 02, 2013 06:13 PM EDT
TORONTO - Blood was spilled over the alleged Rob Ford crack cocaine video.
Mohamed Siad, 27, was stabbed while in custody when other gang members wrongly blamed him for the heat coming down on them in Project Traveller because of the alleged crack video, the Toronto Sun has learned.
But Siad hasn’t stopped shopping around the video since being swept up on 25 charges as part of the Project Traveller investigation — he tried to use it as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
He was trying to cut a deal with the prosecution to hand over the tape in exchange for a plea bargain on his Project Traveller charges, sources told the Sun.
The prosecution refused any deal with Siad because they felt they couldn’t corroborate, barring a witness that was there at the time, that Ford was smoking crack in the video, sources said.
It isn’t clear who has possession of the video or if it still exists.
Ford has repeatedly denied he’s addicted to crack cocaine or that a video of him smoking crack cocaine exists.
“I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist,” Ford said in a statement on May 24 — days before his spokesman and another communications staffer quit.
The Sun has attempted to contact Ford on Friday to see if he will address the latest developments in the scandal. Ford’s spokesman didn’t respond to a media request regarding Siad.
Toronto Police remain tightlipped regarding any connection between the mayor and Project Traveller.
Tthe Toronto Star confirmed Friday its reporters had been shown the video by Siad earlier this year.
The newspaper revealed details of the video on May 17, the day after the U.S. website gawker.com published a story that it had been offered a chance to buy a video of Ford “smoking crack cocaine” — and the Toronto sellers were hoping to get six figures for the video.
Almost a month later, Toronto Police launched the Project Traveller raids that were focused largely on north Etobicoke. Cops netted 43 suspects, dozens of guns, hundreds of thousands in cash and a large haul of drugs.
At the time, residents of the Dixon Rd. building where the bulk of the raids were carried out said cops told them the intense public interest in Ford’s appearance in the video could be blamed for the bust.
“Like they said, like the officers said, the only reason this is happening is because of Rob Ford and I rest my case,” one resident said at the time.
Siad, a Toronto resident, was one of the 43 swept up in the June 13 Project Traveller raids.
At the time, Siad was charged with three counts of participation in a criminal organization, 14 counts of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence, four counts of trafficking in cocaine, trafficking in firearms, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized and possession of firearm obtained by the commission of an offence.
Siad will be back in court on Aug. 7.
Paul Renwick, a Crown Attorney on Project Traveller, refused to speak about the case when contacted this week.
Siad’s lawyer Daniel Brown refused to confirm or deny any information about his client.
In a court appearance after his arrest, Brown mentioned Siad had been stabbed and placed in protective custody. He didn’t reveal the reason for the stabbing.
One of the leaders on the Project Traveller investigation said the year-long probe into the narcotics and firearms trafficking of the Dixon City Bloods street gang had “nothing to do with the alleged Rob Ford crack video.
“It was conducted like any gun and gang investigation and our officers targeted a street-level criminal organization that plagued Rexdale and its law-abiding citizens,” said Det. Gavin Horner. “We found evidence of a criminal enterprise that trafficked in drugs and guns, which threatened the safety of the community, so we carried on a thorough investigation in order to break up this criminal organization.”
He said he doesn’t know what motivated the inmate to stab Siad, but the Project Traveller investigation is not connected to any alleged video.
On another note, the Toronto Star is reporting that Rob Ford sexually assaulted Hazel McCallion yesterday.
Fuji claims there is video evidence, but no one has watched the video because they are afraid they might see
Rob Ford or Hazel McCallion naked.
Fuji claims there is video evidence, but no one has watched the video because they are afraid they might see
Rob Ford or Hazel McCallion naked.
Yes. You would have to be cheap and somewhat stupid to change your principles to support you're politics.
I realize there are many such hypocrites around here but I am not one
them.
Sorry Fuji but I would tend to side with Shack on this particular point. I think your biased, but hey, nobody says you have to like the current Mayor.
You're dead wrong. I don't go around changing my beliefs about democracy, the rule of law, the criminal justice system, etc., based on what I think of Rob Ford. That is ludicrous. I realize that there are some people around here like that but I am not one of them.Sorry Fuji but I would tend to side with Shack on this particular point. I think your biased, but hey, nobody says you have to like the current Mayor.
My belief that criminal code sanction requires a higher standard of proof than anything else has nothing, nothing whatsoever, to do with my opinion of Rob Ford.
Anybody who thinks that job loss should require a higher standard of proof than being locked into a prison has not put even two brain cells worth of thought into what they are saying. If Ford lost his job, life would go on for him -- he'd go back to Deco, he'd smoke some crack, drive around giving people the finger, fight with his wife, yell at some asians at hockey games and stumble home drunk along the Danforth. He'd have an OK life, he just wouldn't be mayor. If you locked him into a jail cell for the next ten years that would really suck for him!
Of course the standard of proof to exit someone from their job, political or otherwise, is lower than the standard required to lock them up in a cage. Duh!
I'd contribute money not to see that video surface. :faint:no one has watched the video because they are afraid they might see
Rob Ford or Hazel McCallion naked.
As much as you and let's wanted this tape to bury Mr Ford.....we are all still waiting for the burial.It's a good thing most of our ancestors had more of an intellect than you do, otherwise we would still be a race of hunter-gatherers. There is no way we can see everything with our own eyes. Sometimes we have to use our brain to piece together information and draw conclusions. You should try it sometime.
Reference please!No this is untrue. In Germany at least, Ford is referred to in magazine stories as the Crack Bürgermeister.
:rofl:
Why do you keep posting shit like this? All your posts are invariably ridiculed and dismissed as useless and foolish. You seem utterly oblivious to your own stupidity and ignorance.
I REVIVE AN OLD COMMENT. Seems Gwker has gone quiet...paying out a few bucks and retreated into their nest.
As a longtime (years, even) reader of the site, I can assure you Gawker is anything but quiet. It's the fact that the Ford video and those who may still hold any copies have gone to ground that has led to them shutting the hell up about the whole thing of late. Until there is anything new to report about it, they're going to rake much elsewhere. I hope your "Toronto is the centre of the universe" perspective can survive the affront.I REVIVE AN OLD COMMENT. Seems Gwker has gone quiet...paying out a few bucks and retreated into their nest.
Where is that crack video? Anyone?
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_ha..._rob_ford_friends_who_sought_crack_video.html
I friggin SWEAR that the reason why this is more difficult than it is, is that organized crime is involved.
Reading the article it makes Ford and his posse look very unorganized and amateur.I friggin SWEAR that the reason why this is more difficult than it is, is that organized crime is involved.
They all are living in their parents basements or sponging off of Rob.
But news that the police are investigating Ford's driver and ex-football coach/communications guy should start the usual squirming about how its ok for Ford to do a little crack or crack a few heads every once in a while as long as he continues to claim he's lowering taxes.
http://warrenkinsella.com/category/musings/Where is that crack video? Anyone?
The scene: a Starbucks, at Yonge and St. Clair.
The players: Kevin Donovan, the lead investigative reporter at the Toronto Star, and James Lockyer, the founding director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted.
The mood: convivial, certain, but (obviously) insufficiently discreet.
Key elements in the dialogue:
The video exists, and it has been seen by many, many Toronto defence layers, following Crown disclosure arising out of June’s Dixon Road “Project Traveler” police raids.
In the video, a large man – Lockyer does not say who he is, but he doesn’t need to – is clearly seen smoking a yellowish substance. There is no doubt who he is, or what he is doing.
The authenticity of the video, and who is in it, has been independently confirmed by a very high-ranking police official.
Will it ever come out? (Probably.)
Will it force him from office before the end of his term? (Unlikely.)
And on and on the little drama goes. Where it stops, nobody knows.
Thanks for posting that link, fred. WOW.
I'm very glad that the Star continues investigating crack-smoking alcoholic Ford and his low life criminal associates.
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7 Things Ford Has Done That Would Probably Get You Fired
another article on this walking embarrassment.
another article on this walking embarrassment.
7 things Rob Ford has done that would probably get you fired
1. Intoxication at Work
Remember Steve from accounting, who got so drunk at the company charity casino night he bet all the clothes he was wearing on a hand of blackjack—and lost. Yeah, Steve doesn't work here anymore. In March, the Toronto Star reported that Mayor Ford was asked to leave a Garrison Ball military event that raises money for the Wounded Warriors charity.
2. Insulting Co-Workers
You know what happens when you go around calling co-workers a "waste of skin"? Your HR rep gets an itchy stress rash. On July 19, 2005, Ford got into an argument with fellow Toronto councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby and he called her... wait for it... a “waste of skin.”
3, Skipping Work
Most people work a 9-5, 40-hour work week. If you routinely missed days and chunks of the work week without explanation, let's just say your boss probably isn't thinking you're out there doing extra work. Ford is infamous for missing city council and ditching the office to coach high school football. Between December 2010 and 2012, his council absenteeism percentage was 14.8%. That's like missing almost 6 hours of a 40-hour week.
4, Public Embarrassment
If you got wasted at a public event and video of that unplanned um.. performance made it's way to your boss' desk? Don't bother asking for that raise. Last week, videos of a questionably-sober Mayor Ford surfaced, showing him walking around Toronto's annual Taste of the Danforth festival without his staff and surrounded by people trying to get a picture. This follows an incident early in his term when he was accused of being drunk and swearing at fans at a Leafs game, for which he eventually apologized.
5. Spending Company Cash
Everyone loves a manager who makes employees under their supervision mow their lawn and wash their car, right? Oh. The Globe and Mail reported that last summer Mayor Ford met with city staff at his family’s business on a Friday afternoon with a list of requests that included patching potholes, but also cutting grass, rebuilding culverts and removing nearby construction equipment in order to spiff up the area in time for Deco Labels and Tags’ 50th anniversary party.
6. Accused of Sexual Assault
Earlier this year, former mayoral candidate Sarah Thompson accused Mayor Ford of groping her while at an event they both attended. It's not a stretch to think that if this was the way you behaved outside of work, it would eventually show up within the office too.
7, Accused of Smoking Crack
This one doesn't exactly have to be in the employee manual.
You can't get much more damning than this article, and yet the whitewash here and amongst all the Ford deniers will continue.
The guy hangs out with degenerates and thugs, and they all seem to have the same vicious temper towards women. Charmers the bunch!
I cannot wait to watch the scumbug squirm when the video finally hits the street.
Don't fucking care! Who read this trashy taboloid newspaper anyway ... In Toronto star liberal can never do any wrong even when they blew billions of dollars in ehealth, power plant scandal, break the law by deleting email. I look only at the bottom line. Rob Ford saves me and the city of Toronto Money as compared to Millers or Ont. Provincial Gov't who waste my hard earned tax dollars( billions of dollar wasted). God bless Rob Ford and God Bless Ford Nation!
