Toronto Mayor Rob Ford appears in a video recovered by police during the Project Traveller investigation, police Chief Bill Blair said today after Ford's friend and occasional driver was arrested on an extortion charge.
Blair said a video seized during an investigation contains images of Ford that have been described by media outlets, an apparent reference to an alleged video that shows Ford smoking crack cocaine.
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GR your former republican is showing. No one calls doing crack getting baked.
GR your former republican is showing. No one calls doing crack getting baked.
The current conservative phrase for partaking of the ganja leaf is "getting all potted up on weed."
At least he only smoked crack while in a drunken stupor, otherwise this might be a big deal.The highschool rapist defense
ROB FORD’S OFFICE HIRED A HACKER TO DESTROY THE CRACK TAPE (http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/rob-fords-office-hired-a-hacker-to-destroy-the-crack-tape)
This story gets more awesome by the minute
So, he's all "yeah I smoked crack but I'm not resigning"
BOOGIE ASPLAIN
Unfortunately that was the important thing going in Canada.
Mayors don't do shit anyway. I'm not against smoking crack if you hold an occupation in which it won't affect your performance.
Here's some source material for anyone that wants to give ol' mayor cracky the emoticon treatment
http://gawker.com/39-breathtaking-photos-of-north-americas-most-photogen-1458983349
Best Taiwan news video yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVsgurevo-g
Mayor Rob Ford snorted cocaine, swilled vodka, popped a dose of Oxycontin and partied with an apparent prostitute during an all-night binge last year that raved from his office to a private room in a Toronto bar, Ford staffers and bar employees alleged to police investigating the mayor.
Several of Ford’s top aides told detectives they were concerned about the mayor’s intoxicated, addled and even violent behaviour the night of St. Patrick’s Day 2012.
Before the tumultuous night was over, they told police, Ford would call a cab driver a “Paki,” deride several top aides as “Liberal bitches,” burst into tears about his deceased father and tell a former staffer that “I banged your pussy.”
The biggest tragedy in all of this? Chris Farley is dead and not able to play Rob Ford in any resulting biopic. :fbmI said the same thing to my wife :'(
The biggest tragedy in all of this? Chris Farley is dead and not able to play Rob Ford in any resulting biopic. :fbmI said the same thing to my wife :'(
The biggest tragedy in all of this? Chris Farley is dead and not able to play Rob Ford in any resulting biopic. :fbm
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The vote count on a motion to remove Ford’s emergency management powers and his ability to influence any of the city’s accountability officers—notably, the integrity commissioner who will investigate the mayor’s conduct
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The vote count on a motion to remove Ford’s emergency management powers and his ability to influence any of the city’s accountability officers—notably, the integrity commissioner who will investigate the mayor’s conduct
According to various accounts, Ford allegedly did cocaine and/or oxycontin while at a bar that night. On the way to the bar, Ransom said multiple other staffers told him Ford "took a cab to the bar and started calling the taxi driver a Paki, threw business cards at him and made mocking fake language sounds."
The cabbie wasn't the only person Ford allegedly insulted that night. At the bar, Ransom said Ford "stumbled around the dance floor and fell down." Ransom said staff eventually "covered up" Ford with some coats and "escorted" him into a taxi back to City Hall "with the help of security." Once he was back at City Hall, investigators said Ransom described Ford, an independent who has been affiliated with the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, going off on a "tangent" where he insulted multiple staffers who were members of the Liberal Party. According to the documents, Ransom said Ford called the staffers "Liberal bitches" and "Liberal hacks." police said Ransom claimed Ford eventually "pushed" one of the staffers "into a wall" and "charged at" another.
Investigators also wrote that Ford's former special assistant of communications, Isaac Ransom, told them he "once received a pocket dial and could hear Mayor FORD peeing in the background." Police said Ford's ex-chief of staff, Mark Towhey told them he "received numerous 'pocket dials' from the Mayor" and that Ford "was pretty infamous for these types of calls." Towhey allegedly described one instance where he "stayed on the line for about five minutes" and "it was obvious that the Mayor was out partying and drinking and sounded pretty intoxicated."
The documents indicate Fickel told police that Ford once asked him to come over to his house and fix a computer. Fickel said he was on a date at the time and left his girlfriend, Victoria Hills, in a car outside. However, Fickel said Ford insisted on inviting Hills in after a few minutes because he "thought it would impress her."
"FICKEL did not want to bring HILLS inside because the house looked like it was falling apart and messy. There was heavy cigarette smoke and clothes everywhere in the house," police wrote in their summary of the interview with Fickel.
Ransom also said Ford "would try to get out of doing ethnic media events, meetings with international politicians and ambassadors." Sadly, the documents didn't go into detail about Ford's reasons for avoiding these "ethnic" events. After February, Ford apparently also could not be found at nighttime public events. In one of his interviews with police, Towhey said he " removed all evening events from the Mayor's schedule" after an incident where Ford allegedly showed up to a military ball intoxicated with his children in tow and was asked to leave.
Several staffers allegedly described Ford using marijuana including Towhey who said another staffer told him he once "found a marihuana cigarette in the Mayor's desk" at City Hall. Police said the joint was "already gone" when the staffer tried to show it to him. The documents also describe a few stories of the mayor's conduct after he allegedly smoked weed.
According to Ford's former special assistant Nico Fidani, vodka is the mayor's "favourite drink." Another former assistant, Chris Fickel, told investigators it was a "regular occurrence" for Ford to ask "young staffers" to buy him alcohol and that these requests could happen "at any time during the day." Fickel indicated that Ford had a preferred vodka brand and "always wanted Iceberg vodka." Iceberg, which is made from water harvested from melting ice in the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, is billed as "the smoothest, best tasting vodka."
Does anyone else want a Rob Ford channel? Just me?
You can smoke heroin? Thank God I'm in the dark about this bullshit.you can smoke anything if you put your mind to it. People crush up pills and smoke them.
So far as I am aware, the info is that Dougie was just a mid-level dealer in the 80s.
Today, their income is from the legit family business, which does like 100-200 million in revenue per year.
And Canadian crooks are still doing just fine producing and exporting meth and ecstasy, thankyouverymuch :P
So far as I am aware, the info is that Dougie was just a mid-level dealer in the 80s.
Today, their income is from the legit family business, which does like 100-200 million in revenue per year.
And Canadian crooks are still doing just fine producing and exporting meth and ecstasy, thankyouverymuch :P
Meth is the scourge of the modern world. Except North Korea.
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A few weeks ago, when they caught 40 POUNDS to be smuggled from DPRK to the United States AS A TASTER, that's when I realized it was a big fucking deal.
To put it into perspective, 40 pounds of meth is a couple million dollars. 40 pounds of High-Times Grade weed is 65-80,000 depending how much your connect likes you. 40 pounds of LSD is about 1.8 BILLION-WITH-A-B DOLLARS and is 179,200,000 doses, not that far from one hit for every grown man and woman in the United States.
Rob Ford: One wild night in March
Fresh from Hollywood, two months before rehab, Rob Ford and his felon pals hook up again for drink, drugs and astonishing invective
By: Kevin Donovan Investigations, Published on Fri May 09 2014
Loaded behind the wheel of his Cadillac Escalade, high on his Jimmy Kimmel interview, Mayor Rob Ford is winding through the streets of his city.
It’s two days after Ford’s celebrated appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, two months before rehab.
In the course of this March 5 night, Ford will bring together two of his closest felon friends, beating one and accepting drugs from another; go on a racist tirade; and boast that he often has sex with “girls” in front of his wife, according to an account of the evening. He will suggest one man could have sex with her, a source has told the Star, recalling Ford’s words.
The information for this story comes from interviews and from the Star’s review of audio tape that captures a portion of the evening. The Star did not pay for the tape. Ford could not be reached by the Star for comment, as has been the case since the Star began its investigation more than a year ago. His lawyer Dennis Morris would not comment on the majority of the allegations in this story.
(Ford is said to be in a rehab program seeking help for alcohol addiction. The Star has heard that Ford has been spotted at three different rehabs in the past week, including CAMH in Toronto, Homewood in Guelph and Greenstone in Bala, about a 40-minute drive from the Ford family cottage.)
Ford had taken a private jet to Los Angeles for the March 3 Kimmel show with brothers Doug and Randy. Viewers were treated to Ford largely being mocked by the talk show host.
What follows is an account from people present of Ford’s behaviour on a chilly but not freezing night soon after the mayor’s chartered jet returns him from Los Angeles to Toronto:
Ford’s perpetually shiny Escalade is moving through icy streets with Ford at the wheel. Ford is wasted; on what, is unclear. It’s about 8 p.m.
Beside him in the car is Bruno Bellissimo, Ford’s friend from high school. Close by in the neighbourhood is Sandro Lisi. In one of the many fascinating turns of the Ford story, these three men were back where they started a year previous, during the infamous Garrison Ball incident of Feb. 23, 2013. On that night, Ford, Lisi and Bellissimo headed down to the military ball with Ford’s young children in the backseat. His choice of companions then included Lisi, with a record of threatening to kill young women, and Bellissimo, a crack addict, who shortly after the ball beat up his mother and was convicted of assault and threatening death. Ford was ejected from that year’s Garrison Ball for being impaired.
Back to March 5, 2014, two days after Kimmel.
Ford is behind the wheel and hammered. One constituent he calls that night recalls Ford slurring his words.
The Star has heard audio of Ford and Bellissimo talking and both are slurring. (The Star has interviewed people who say it is nothing for Ford to down a 40-ouncer of vodka. The man who recorded the audio of Ford at Sully Gorman’s bar two weeks ago told the Star Ford’s ability to drink shots of tequila is “incredible.”)
Ford has two ways of communicating as he drives — his cellular phone and his Onstar device, a General Motors product that acts as a cellphone. During one call as he drives that night, Ford is recorded as saying the following about Jews, blacks and Italians:
“Nobody sticks up for people like I do, every f---ing k--e, n----r, f---ing w-p, d-go, whatever the race. Nobody does. I’m the most racist guy around. I’m the mayor of Toronto.”
On a roll, Ford continues to spew invective that may be the worst published yet. At one point he makes a rude comment about his mother.
His tirade is interrupted by a call from Dennis Morris, Ford’s lawyer. Morris voices immediate concern that Ford is driving and tells him to pull over. Ford does not respond kindly. Morris suggests the police may be tailing him.
“The cops are f---ing right behind me. They are, it’s fine,” Ford says.
Morris tells Ford he cannot be driving drunk.
To which Ford responds, “Yeah, you never had your f---ing kids taken away.”
(Asked this week if he recalled the incident and telephoning Ford, Morris said he believes his client was parked at the time.)
Ford eventually pulls into a park near his home in Etobicoke, according to an account of the evening. Lisi arrives, driving his black Range Rover. (Lisi is facing drug trafficking and extortion charges in connection with an alleged attempt to retrieve the embarrassing crack video. No accomplice has been charged. The Star reported recently that at another late-night event, Ford pummelled Lisi, his friend, until Lisi cried.)
According to an account of the evening, drugs are present as the men meet in the park. An hour passes. Ford and Bellissimo drive to Ford’s home, with Lisi in tow driving his Range Rover. From here on, there is no known audio recording of the night.
The front walkway to the Ford house leads to a modest front door. At about 10 p.m. that night, Ford and his pals arrive. Ford has a bag of McDonald’s food in his hand. Ford jiggles the front door and then kicks the door open. He, Lisi, Bellissimo and another man step in.
“Don’t worry guys, my kids aren’t here,” Ford says.
For no apparent reason, Ford turns on Bellissimo and hits him squarely in the face twice — boom, boom — forgetting that he has a bagful of Big Macs in his hand. Burgers and fries scatter. Ford makes Bellissimo pick them up.
Down the stairs they go. Ford’s wife Renata is on the couch, a tired lounger that has been described to the Star by paramedics and firefighters who have attended calls at the house over the past two years. Renata is smoking a joint.
“You’re a f---ing idiot,” Renata says.
Enraged, Ford rummages for his Don Bosco coaching jacket. “It’s where I keep my weed,” he tells people in the room. Ford turns on his wife, screaming that she has taken his drugs. Standing there quietly are Lisi and Bellissimo.
To a visitor, Ford says, almost offhanded, “You can f--- her if you want, in front of me.”
Nobody speaks. The comment is ignored by Ford’s wife. Men in the room are shocked.
“It’s okay,” Ford burbles. “She lets me f--k girls in front of her all the time.”
Eyes flicked upward, to the rest of the house.
“It’s okay, my kids are not home,” Ford repeats.
For the next two hours Ford never stops moving. He paces the dingy room, back and forth. Lisi says little, checking his phone from time to time.
Ford drinks and smokes a joint. He speaks Jamaican patois, reminiscent of his turn at the Steak Queen restaurant in January, another night when he was out in north Etobicoke with Lisi.
Still popping back and forth, Ford invites people to punch him. “I’m jacked,” Ford tells the men as he flexes his muscles.
After a while, Ford and Lisi disappear into a small room. When they come out, Ford, looking around his dismal basement, complains that his brothers Doug and Randy “throw and flash their money around.” Ford says he never does.
“But taking that private jet down to L.A. was nice,” Ford adds. “I am going to get me one of those.”
Somebody asks Ford how he got into the U.S., given his admission of smoking crack.
“The customs guy who came on the plane, he recognized me!” Ford replies.
The night continues. Ford, who notoriously and allegedly grabbed the butt of a female political rival at the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee Action Party in 2013, is one day away from that event again.
“Aw s--t,” Ford says as the night wears on, his wife still sitting on the couch smoking. “I have to go to that f---ing CJPAC s--t tomorrow night.”
He attends the CJPAC event the next day.
That article is written in such a sloppy, obvious manner that it doesn't matter that whoever fed that info is kept un-named, that dude is burnt.
“Aw s--t,” Ford says as the night wears on, his wife still sitting on the couch smoking. “I have to go to that f---ing CJPAC s--t tomorrow night.”
He attends the CJPAC event the next day.
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