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Rob Ford scandal: Toronto Police have video apparently showing mayor smoking crack
“I have no reason to resign,” Ford says. Ford friend Alexander Sandro Lisi charged with extortion related to the video, police chief says
There's been a huge development in the Rob Ford
story. Police chief Bill Blair says they are in possession of the
controversial video showing the city's Mayor.By:
Star Investigations
Published on Thu Oct 31 2013
Toronto Police have
recovered the video that appears to show Mayor Rob For smoking crack
cocaine, Toronto police Chief Bill Blair said Thursday.“The video files
depict images that are consistent with what has previously been
reported” in the media, Blair said at a news conference on the heels of a
release of documents used by police to obtain search warrants during
their summer investigation.“I have no reason to
resign,” Ford said at a raucous 2:30 p.m. press conference despite calls
from several councillors for him to step down.He said he would
continue returning phone calls. Under a barrage of shouted questions
from reporters, he left within two minutes.“I wish I could defend myself, unfortunately I can’t because it’s before the courts right now,” was his first statement.Ford has since May refused to comment on the video “that I have never seen or does not exist.”Blair also said
alleged drug dealer and Ford friend Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, 35, was
arrested Thursday morning and has been charged with extortion.The Star earlier reported that Lisi, who was arrested Oct. 1 on drug charges, was involved in attempts to recover the video.Ford himself has been
the target of a police investigation that witnessed and photographed him
in months of on-the-ground and airplane surveillance taking part in
meetings with Lisi, according to the documents, released on orders of
Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer.Only half of the 500 pages have been released. The other half will be the subject of legal arguments to be submitted by Nov. 8.Blair told reporters
they recovered two videos from a computer hard drive on Oct. 29 that are
relevant to their investigation. At least one will eventually be
presented in court. The Star has been told by sources that the 90-second
video its reporters saw was an edited version of the original.“It’s safe to say the mayor does appear in the video,” Blair told reporters.
Blair said he has seen the video. His reaction? “As a citizen of the city, I am disappointed.”The files had been deleted but were recovered by police. There is no indication that the video was doctored, Blair said.Based on the video, Blair said, there is nothing now that would support laying a criminal charge against Ford.
Ford emerged from his
home around 9:45 a.m. Thursday morning and walked toward waiting
reporters and photographers yelling “Get off my driveway” repeatedly
before getting into his SUV and driving away.
The details of an
extensive police investigation into Ford’s drug activities come six
months after two Toronto Star reporters saw a video showing the mayor,
obviously impaired, smoking what appears to be crack cocaine and making
homophobic and racist slurs.In a heavily censored
portion of the document, police said that the day after the world
learned news of the video that appeared to show Ford smoking crack
cocaine, top homicide detective Sgt. Gary Giroux was assigned to
“investigate the existence of a cellular phone containing a video of
Ford smoking crack cocaine.”The search warrant
documents contain allegations that have not been tested in court. The
only charges laid in the matter involve Lisi and dry cleaner Jamshid
Bahrami, who were swept up in the Oct. 1 raid.“We continue to gather information,” when asked if the probe was still ongoing, Blair said.In the hour after news
broke about the video, Lisi feverishly worked his phone, calling an
alleged Dixon gang member and a resident of the now notorious 15 Windsor
Rd. drug house where Ford was photographed with Anthony Smith, Monir
Kassim and Mohammad Khattak.
Three copies of that photograph appeared in documents, described as information to obtain (ITO) a warrant.The newly released
documents gave a detailed glimpse into Ford and Lisi’s activities on the
evening of May 16 when online gossip site Gawkerand the Star wrote about the video.At 8:18 p.m. — just 10 minutes before Gawker published its story online — Mayor Ford called Lisi. They spoke for 40 seconds.
For the next 45 minutes, Lisi feverishly contacted an unidentified number, trading nine texts and four calls.
He then called Fabio Basso, who lives at 15 Windsor Rd. The call lasted just eight seconds.Lisi also called Liban
Siyad, an alleged member of the Dixon City Bloods arrested during the
June 13 Project Traveller raids on Dixon Rd. The two spoke twice in a
matter of minutes.The only other call
police noted in its allegations was 24-second conversation apparently
between Lisi and an anger management centre.Lisi worked late
throughout the night, repeatedly calling Basso, whose home, according to
several sources, was the setting of the alleged crack video.From 2:21 a.m. to
10:28 a.m., Lisi furiously texted and called people, specifically David
Price, one of Ford’s top aides and long-time friend, police said in
their allegations.Ford called Lisi for
the first time nearly 21 hours after news broke about the crack video.
The call lasted 22 seconds. Ford called back a minute later from his
home phone and cell. The two talked three more times that evening before
Lisi spoke to Mohamed Siad, the alleged gang member trying to sell the
video. Lisi spent the next day talking to Ford, Siad and another alleged
member of the Dixon gang.A day after the Star
revealed that drug dealers were shopping around a video appearing to
show Ford smoking crack cocaine, Price contacted the mayor’s then-chief
of staff, Mark Towhey, and asked “hypothetically” what the mayor’s
office would do if Price had been told where to find the video.“Towhey had suspicions that Sandro was a drug dealer,” the document said.Towhey asked Price to
look into Lisi but Price not able to find out much about him. Both had
concerns about Lisi; Towhey was concerned because Lisi was the driver
the night of the Garrison Ball, the documents said.Police generated a
“timeline of Rob Ford related information” during their investigation.
In this heavily redacted section, it said: “On April 9, police
surveilled 15 Windsor, believed to be a crack house. Looked like drug
trafficking going on ... “No known persons observed.” No arrests that
day.And later, “A unified search query of Mayor Rob Ford does not reveal that his phone was reported stolen.”The documents said:
“Confidential source tells police Det. Const. Clarke that 15 Windsor
Drive (sic) is a ‘trap’ house. The house belongs to a couple of crack
heads but Dixon guys go there often to ‘chop’ crack or just hang out and
get drunk.“The source advises
that they have seen the following people at this address: Liban Siyad,
Abdhullahi, Monir Kassim, Ahmed Dirie, Anthony Smith.”Kassim was also
arrested during Project Traveller on weapons and drugs charges. Smith
was shot dead on March 27. Khattak, who was injured in the Smith
shooting, was arrested during Project Traveller.From March 18 to June
24, Lisi had phone conversations with Ford and two of the mayor’s
special assistants — Thomas Beyer and Chris Fickel, according to the
documents.On the same phone, Lisi also spoke with Fabio Basso, who lives at 15 Windsor Rd.
Between Aug. 7 and Sept. 13, Lisi had telephone calls with Ford almost daily, often multiple times a day.
In the 44 days, Lisi and Ford had 349 “points of telephone contact,” the documents said.Ford helped Lisi
escape police surveillance at least once, letting his friend sneak into
City Hall’s underground employee parking lot, according to allegations
in the police’s ITO.On Wednesday, July 24,
a detective sergeant with the force’s mobile support unit followed Lisi
as he weaved his way through side streets near the Westway.
Lisi “was followed to
the downtown core where he began to circle the area of Bay Street and
Queen Street West, executing U-turns on several occasions,” the police
said.Lisi eventually dipped
into the underground lot at City Hall. Ford, waiting at the entrance,
“swiped him into the controlled access area,” the police said.
That night, Ford and Lisi watched the Blue Jays lose 3-8 to the Los Angeles Dodgers, police said.
The documents included several images of Ford and Lisi at that game.The next day, police
again used the plane for surveillance, the documents said. They saw Lisi
and an unknown male passenger drive to the TTC Wilson yard and in to
what appeared to be a fenced in and secure parking lot (signed
“Authorized Person Only/No Trespassing).The unknown man got in a white Ford Explorer. Lisi was followed back to his home, the documents said.Lisi also had contact
with members of Ford’s staff, including Price, current executive
assistant Tom Beyer, current special assistant Xhesjo Hasko and former
special assistant Chris Fickel.
During their June 15
surveillance of Lisi, police alleged in the documents they observed him
drive a red Mustang to the Metro grocery store at Royal York Road and
Trehorne Drive. Lisi parked, stood outside the main doors, “scanning the
parking lot while on his cellular phone,” then met a man walking a dog.
That man was later identified as Thomas Beyer, executive assistant to
the mayor. Both men got into Beyer’s vehicle and drove to Lisi’s
Mustang, which Lisi gets into.On June 28, Toronto police Det. Shertzer and Det. Const. Davey interviewed Fickel.According to the
documents, Fickel told police that the mayor and Lisi spent a lot of
time together until “media release events [crack video scandal].”“Fickel does not know
where the mayor got marijuana from but has heard that ‘Sandro’ may be
the person who provides the mayor with marijuana and possibly cocaine.”Fickel told
investigators that Ford met Lisi through Don Bosco football coach Payman
Abdoodowleh, a man with numerous convictions including three assault
convictions, a break and enter and assault with a weapon.The former staffer added that Aboodowleh “said that he was mad at Lisi because he was fuelling the mayor’s drug abuse.”There are also
multiple examples of on-the-ground surveillance in the documents, in
which a pattern emerged of meetings at an Esso station just 350 metres
from Ford’s home.
For example, just
before 4 p.m. on Sept. 8, after calls were placed to Lisi from the
mayor’s Deco label business and his car’s On Star system, the pair met
at the Esso gas station near Ford’s home.Police watched as Ford
entered the gas station, bought a newspaper and a Gatorade, then waited
in his car. When Lisi arrived at 4 p.m., Ford went into the gas station
again to use the washroom without speaking to Lisi, who backed his
Range Rover up besides the mayor’s vehicle.Ford got back in his car, the pair rolled down their windows, talked briefly, and then left.The documents detail
another meeting at the Esso station around 5:40 p.m. July 1. The gas
station’s security footage shows Ford arriving in his black Escalade
heading straight to the station’s bathroom. Lisi drove up, apparently
texting someone on his phone while holding an envelope.
Lisi entered the Esso
and “searches around the refrigerators,” police said, before picking up a
few Gatorades and a bag of chips. He left and was caught on security
cameras standing near the mayor’s vehicle, holding the envelope.“Lisi appears to be looking around, possibly scoping out the area,” the document said.“He walks along the
passenger side of the Mayor’s Escalade and walks out of (the security
camera’s) frame. He is not seen again.”Around the same time, Ford left the washroom and bought a Gatorade and pack of gum. He spent about 10 minutes in the store.On July 11, Lisi put a
package or envelope in Ford’s car at the Esso station at 5:44 p.m.
Three minutes later, Ford leaves the gas station, gets into his Escalade
and drives away. Ford had made two short calls to Lisi before the
encounter, the documents said, and Lisi called Ford on his OnStar car
phone at 5:56 p.m. They spoke for less than four minutes.The documents detailed
a police background search that revealed Lisi had been charged but not
convicted of 10 other offences between 1997 and 2009. They ranged from
mischief and harassment to possession of a schedule II substance.
“Lisi is related to
someone that went to high school with (David) Price and (Rob’s brother
and city councilor) Doug Ford. Lisi’s relative, a cousin, is Joe
Malfera,” the document said.In a letter submitted
to the courts June 13 as part of Lisi’s sentencing for threatening to
kill a young woman, Mayor Ford submitted a letter of reference to the
court as did Joe Malfara (as it is spelled in the letter). In his
letter, Malfara said he owns and operates a garage and gas station at
165 Rogers Rd. and has employed Lisi part-time between 2001 and 2009 and
that Lisi has “conducted himself professionally and respectfully during
his employ.”Surveillance on the
ground and in the air on June 26 tracked Lisi and an “unknown male” as
they drove a red Mustang from Lisi’s house to a soccer field at Renforth
Drive and Centennial Park Gate.Lisi met Ford, who was watching a soccer game, the police documents said.Lisi returned to the
Mustang and retrieved a white plastic bag from behind the driver’s seat.
The bag “already contained items in it, as it appeared to be weighted,”
the documents said.Lisi grabbed some cans
of Minute Maid from the trunk and put them in the same plastic bag,
walked to Ford’s Escalade, put the bag in the front and walked back to
Ford, the documents said.
Police surveillance also included following Ford and Lisi to a local park.On Aug. 13, police
followed Lisi and Ford to Weston Wood Park, where the pair “met and made
their way into a secluded area of the adjacent woods,’ according to
details in the documents.Police watched the two men for about an hour, then Lisi and Ford left the park and both got into their vehicles and drove away.Police entered the
park and a “vodka and juice bottle were seized from this spot. So as not
to reveal that the original bottles were seized replacement bottles
were left behind.”Before the meeting,
Lisi had received a call from a cellphone “associated” with Deco
Adhesive Products, according to the documents.Under the section
called “Biography/Background of Mayor Rob Ford,” the document notes
Ford’s political history and philosophy, community service, volunteer
work, football coaching career and football foundation.The documents quoted a
police source as saying, “Whenever the Mayor gets Leaf tickets or
something similar in nature he takes Lisi. Lisi normally drives the
Mayor to these events.“Nico Fidani (a former
junior staffer of the mayor’s) had brought up concerns that Lisi was
providing the Mayor with illegal drugs. Fidani thought that Lisi would
drive the Mayor around to ‘hot spots’s and facilitate getting drugs for
the Mayor.“Fidani thought Lisi was addicted to drugs,” the police documents alleged.Outside his home Thursday morning, a visibly angry Ford shouted at reporters: “What don’t you understand? Get off my property.”Ford only said “thank you” in response to questions about whether he is the focus of a police drug investigation.As journalists backed
onto the sidewalk, Ford yelled “Get off my property” several times and
waved a handful of dress shirts he was carrying, as if to shoo them away
from his black Cadillac Escalade. He also pointed at his roof, warning
reporters there was a camera installed.The documents
suggested police Project Traveller wiretaps also picked up details of
meeting between Gawker’s John Cook and tipster who claimed to have an
“associate” in possession of the video.
For Ford, the tough
campaigner who leads Ford Nation, it remains to be seen whether the fact
that police surveillance teams spent the summer watching him consort
with drug and weapons dealers will have an impact on the former Scarlett
Heights football player’s popularity. Olivia Chow, John Tory, Karen
Stintz, and other potential mayoral candidates are waiting in the wings.
Ford, who proudly says he has never given up on anything, has warned
the election will be a “bloodbath” and that his fellow candidates will
“bring up everything.”It all began with news of a video shot somewhere near the Dixon Rd. apartments, site of the Project Traveller raids.Ford is pictured alone
in the video, shot on a drug dealer’s iPhone. A voice off camera goads
the mayor into making comments. Justin Trudeau’s name is mentioned, and
Ford calls him a “fag.” The use of Trudeau’s name gives a hint to timing
of the video, which is also still a mystery. Trudeau was in the news
for the Patrick Brazeau boxing match in early 2012, and in the news in
early fall 2012 for his leadership battle.Intensely loyal to
family and close friends, Ford has surrounded himself with a group of
yes men who are equally loyal. When Lisi was arrested, Ford made a point
of saying he does not “throw my friends under the bus.”But it is a small group, and it was unclear from Wednesday’s court hearing if Lisi is still a Ford ally.What is clear is that
Ford and Lisi spent a terrific amount of time together. They met four
times a week outside Lisi’s home just east of the Dixon Rd. apartments
that were the epicentre of the Project Traveller guns and drugs raids.We now know that Lisi
and Mohamed Siad, who wanted to sell the crack video, were close. Did
Siad supply drugs to Lisi? That was likely a question police tried to
answer.
We also know that a
six-man Toronto police “spin team” spent hundreds of hours watching and
following Lisi and Ford. They used cameras mounted on telephone poles,
tracking devices on cars, listening devices and even a Cessna airplane
flying low over Etobicoke, so low that people the Star interviewed said
there was no doubt the cops were watching.A “pole camera”
installed around July 18 on Madill Street to monitor Lisi’s home could
be accessed remotely online by officers, the documents said.On July 23, the camera
caught Ford arriving outside Lisi’s house around 9:30 p.m. in his
Escalade and walking toward Lisi’s house. At 11:10 p.m. Ford and Lisi
are filmed walking together toward the Escalade. The mayor drove off.
Ford may have known he
was being watched during an Aug. 18 meeting with Liso in the parking
lot of Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy, the documents said.The meeting ended when
a police surveillance vehicle in the area was “spotted.” The mayor and
Lisi drove out in their vehicles at a “high rate of speed.”
Lisi also displayed
counter surveillance techniques (frequently stopping his car, turning
into random parking lots and driving the other way, etc.) while police
followed him.On Sunday June 16,
police documents said they observed Lisi leave his home in a red
Mustang, “performing counter surveillance measures” before returning
home on Madill Street.Police said they saw a
black Cadillac Escalade circle the streets around Madill. Officers
traced the licence plate to Deco Adhesive Products, a business owned by
the Ford family. Officers followed the black SUV as it headed away from
the Madill Street area and identified Ford as the driver.A day later, police
watched Lisi leave home and go to nearby townhouse complex at Islington
Ave. and Dixon Rd. Several minutes later, Lisi was seen leaving the
backyard of townhouse on Sweet Pea Path.
Lisi was followed to
Richview Plaza, where he was seen entering Richview Cleaners and leaving
carrying a pizza box. Police followed Lisi back to his neighbourhood.The police document
notes wryly, “Through the research I conducted I conclude that Richview
Cleaners only specializes in dry-cleaning and is not in the food
industry.”The Ford family’s
black Escalade pulled into Lisi’s driveway. Officers followed the
Escalade when it left and identified Ford as the driver.After that June 17
surveillance, police discussed the difficulties of seeing “where Lisi is
going or what he is doing” and the possibility of getting a “tracking
warrant and or the plane.”The documents note a
CCTV camera appeared to have been installed over the garage doors of
Lisi’s home. The camera faced the driveway but police weren’t sure if it
was recording.olice obtained a
warrant to search a house and detached garage at 82 Thirty-Ninth St.,
the documents said. Tony and Celia Lisi, Sandro’s parents, bought the
property last year.With files from
Kevin Donovan, Robyn Doolittle, David Bruser, Jayme Poisson, Jesse
McLean, Emily Mathieu, Kenyon Wallace and Mary Ormsby
