Toronto mayor Rob Ford crack scandal, Somalis own the evidence

[Safferz]

More from my crack smoking mayor playlist

 

 

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Word on the street is that the Globe & Mail will be dropping a bombshell Rob Ford story tomorrow.

 

 

[Safferz]

BOOM! The Globe and Mail delivers their bombshell:

 

Globe investigation: The Ford family’s history with drug dealing

 

GREG MCARTHUR AND SHANNON KARI

The Globe and Mail

Published Saturday, May. 25 2013, 3:00 AM EDT

Last updated Saturday, May. 25 2013, 2:54 AM EDT

 

This investigative report reveals that:

 

Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s brother, sold hashish for several years in the 1980s.

Another brother, Randy, was also involved in the drug trade and was once charged in relation to a drug-related kidnapping.

Their sister, Kathy, has been the victim of drug-related gun violence.

 

 

In the 1980s, anyone wanting to buy hashish had to know where to go. And in central Etobicoke, the wealthy Toronto suburb where Mayor Rob Ford grew up, one of those places was James Gardens. In the evening, the sports cars often wound along Edenbridge Drive, past the gated homes and the lawn-bowling pitches, until they reached the U-shaped parking lot. By nightfall, the public park was a hash drive-thru. One former street dealer, whom we will call “Justin,” described the scene as “an assembly line.”

 

There were usually a number of dealers to choose from, some of them supplied by a mainstay at James Gardens – a young man with the hulk-like frame and mop of bright blond hair: Doug Ford. “Most people didn’t approach Doug looking for product. You went to the guys that he supplied. Because if Doug didn’t know you and trust you, he wouldn’t even roll down his window,” Justin said.

 

Today, Mr. Ford is a member of Toronto’s city council – and no ordinary councillor. First elected in 2010 as his brother was swept into the mayor’s office, he has emerged as a truly powerful figure at City Hall –– trying to overhaul plans for Toronto’s waterfront less than a year after arriving. He also has higher aspirations, and has said he wants to follow in the footsteps of his father, Doug Ford Sr., by running in the next provincial election as a Conservative.

 

Meanwhile, he serves as his brother’s de facto spokesman. As Toronto is gripped by allegations that its mayor was captured on a homemade video smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and his office descends into disarray – his chief of staff was fired on Thursday – Doug Ford has been the only person to mount a spirited public defence of his largely silent sibling. On Friday, after the Mayor finally made a statement about the accusation, he was the one who fielded questions from the press.

 

Well before the events of the past week, The Globe and Mail began to research the Ford brothers in an effort to chronicle their lives before rising to prominence in Canada’s largest city. Over the past 18 months, it has sought out and interviewed dozens of people who knew them in their formative years.

 

What has emerged is a portrait of a family once deeply immersed in the illegal drug scene. All three of the mayor’s older siblings – brother Randy, 51, and sister Kathy, 52, as well as Doug, 48 – have had ties to drug traffickers.

 

Ten people who grew up with Doug Ford – a group that includes two former hashish suppliers, three street-level drug dealers and a number of casual users of hash – have described in a series of interviews how for several years Mr. Ford was a go-to dealer of hash. These sources had varying degrees of knowledge of his activities: Some said they purchased hash directly from him, some said they supplied him, while others said they observed him handling large quantities of the drug.

 

The events they described took place years ago, but as mayor, Rob Ford has surrounded himself with people from his past. Most recently he hired someone for his office whose long history with the Fords, the sources said, includes selling hashish with the mayor’s brother.

 

The Globe wrote to Doug Ford outlining what the sources said about him, and received a response from Gavin Tighe, his lawyer, who said the allegations were false. “Your references to unnamed alleged sources of information represent the height of irresponsible and unprofessional journalism given the gravely serious and specious allegations of substantial criminal conduct.”

 

There’s nothing on the public record that The Globe has accessed that shows Doug Ford has ever been criminally charged for illegal drug possession or trafficking. But some of the sources said that, in the affluent pocket of Etobicoke where the Fords grew up, he was someone who sold not only to users and street-level dealers, but to dealers one rung higher than those on the street. His tenure as a dealer, many of the sources say, lasted about seven years until 1986, the year he turned 22. “That was his heyday,” said “Robert,” one of the former drug dealers who agreed to an interview on the condition he not be identified by name.

 

 

 

Read the six page article HERE.

[Safferz]

A beautifully absurd political fracas, replete with heroin dealers, gunplay, KKK members, a plot to overthrow the island of Dominica, and of course our crack smoking mayor. Good morning Toronto.

[Nin-Yaaban]

What's this guy's ancestry horta? English, Irish, Scottish?

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Nin-Yaaban;955112 wrote:

What's this guy's ancestry horta? English, Irish, Scottish?

Probably a mix, like most white folks whose families have been in North America for generations.

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Safferz;955116 wrote:

Probably a mix, like most white folks whose families have been in North America for generations.

This is something i noticed about Canada. Most of the Whites there are either from England, Ireland, or Scotland. It use to be that way in the U.S at the beginning. But the majority of the Cadaans here now are German, Dutch, and Swedish descendant.

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Nin-Yaaban;955119 wrote:

This is something i noticed about Canada. Most of the Whites there are either from England, Ireland, or Scotland. It use to be that way in the U.S at the beginning. But the majority of the Cadaans here now are German, Dutch, and Swedish descendant.

Ah that's true (French as well), the US had huge waves of immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... Canada did as well, but nothing comparable to the US with its huge ships of European immigrants from Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe arriving on Ellis Island.

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Ummm WHAT:

Toronto police spoke to Mayor Ford’s senior staffer after tip linked killing to alleged drug video

PATRICK WHITE AND ADAM RADWANSKI

The Globe and Mail

Published Monday, May. 27 2013, 3:00 AM EDT

Last updated Monday, May. 27 2013, 10:07 AM EDT

 

A senior member of Rob Ford’s office was interviewed by police last week about a tip linking a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking illicit drugs to a recent Toronto homicide, two separate sources have confirmed.

 

The staffer felt compelled to share the tip, which came to him from someone else in the mayor’s office, with police because it could constitute evidence in a homicide investigation.

 

Two officers interviewed the staffer away from City Hall, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting.

 

The mayor has repeatedly denied the existence of a video.

 

Toronto police refused to comment on the interview. The mayor’s spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment on the story.

 

The tip came into the mayor’s office shortly after reports surfaced in the Toronto Star and on Gawker.com regarding the existence of a video allegedly showing Mr. Ford smoking crack cocaine.

 

The informant in the mayor’s office purported to know the address and unit number where the video was being held.

 

They went on to say that the video originally belonged to an individual who may have been killed for its potentially valuable contents, according to a source.

 

The video clip was allegedly offered for sale to the Star and Gawker by men involved in the drug trade, according to reports in both outlets. Gawker is trying to raise $200,000 for the video through an online campaign.

 

Both media reports were accompanied by a photo, provided by the men selling the video, that allegedly shows Mr. Ford standing with a man believed to be Anthony Smith, a 21-year-old man gunned down in downtown Toronto in March.

 

Mr. Ford broke a seven-day silence about the allegations on Friday. “I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine,” he said in a speech at City Hall. “As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.”

 

On Sunday, he was more unequivocal about the video’s existence, telling a caller to his weekly radio show, “There’s no video, so you can’t comment on something that doesn’t exist.”

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So the implied synopsis of this potential drama is:

 

1) Rob was smoking crack with/provided by Anthony Smith and gets put on film.

 

2) The existence of the video is discovered by "someone"

a) other underworld characters looking to cash in

b) The Fords maybe responding to blackmail

 

3) Anthony Smith is executed at King and Portland and we assume the iphone was taken.

 

4) The video is then shopped around to the media (possibly AFTER being offered to Ford to buy back)

 

5) Media starts digging into the Fords and uncover that ALL of them have skeletons

a) Randy Ford - Kidnapping a drug dealer and holding him for ransom -Fact

b) Kathy Ford - Heroine addiction, white supremacist connection, drug dealer ex-boyfriend murdered her other boyfriend. shot in the head by druggie boyfriend Facts

c) Doug Ford Sold Hashish in the 80s...probably some coke and heroine too pending facts

 

 

Is that accurate so far?

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The timeline is more like this:

 

1) Rob Ford smoked crack

2) Rob Ford was recorded smoking crack, with Anthony Smith present among others (Smith was killed in a targeted shooting on March 28th)

3) Gawker is contacted by a Somali informant in Toronto who is helping the owners of the video shop it around to media outlets, it is then viewed by a person from Gawker and when Gawker mentions this in an email to a contact, the word spreads to Rob Ford's office

4) Gawker breaks the story, officially starting Crackgate

5) Toronto Star releases a story, after two of their journalists view the video. They use the word Somali as many times as they use the word crack, and later edit and apologize to the Somali community

6) Gawker launches the Rob Ford Crackstarter campaign to raise funds to purchase the video, it is currently at $192k and set to hit the goal tonight. However the video owners have gone underground and it is feared Gawker will not be able to make the purchase.

7) Rob Ford fires his chief of staff for telling him to go away and get help

8) Rob Ford, who smoked crack, denies that he currently smokes crack in a press conference

9) The Globe and Mail releases a story they have been working on for 18 months, saying that it is irresponsible not to share this information now. It is an investigative report that shows the elder Ford siblings' involvement in the drug trade in Etobicoke

10) Toronto Star journalists confirm the existence of multiple copies of the tape

11) The Globe and Mail learns that a Ford staffer was interviewed by Toronto homicide detectives after she tipped them off about a connection between the video and a homicide in the city. This staffer and others know the exact apartment building and unit where the video is/was held, and alleges that the video originally belonged to someone who was killed for its valuable contents

[D.O.C]

I texted this guy to tell him that rob form smoked crack cocaine

 

 

Inaar saffz we missed u, where are u?

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I'm around D.O.C, just not in that jerk's thread dee.

[Haatu]

Saff, one advice, never take anythung that madman writes seriously. Wallahi he's called me worse on multiple occasions and every time damn hilarious. He's just being the entertainer he is but I guess he caught you on the wrong time of month :D

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Haatu don't make me add you to my sh*t list too :mad: I have a clearer state of mind and I'm more emotionally balanced than that manic depressive, dhaqan celis internet troll.

 

Watching the news now, looks like a few of the mayor's aides just resigned.