Weeks before the alleged video taping the mayor using crack was shown to Toronto Star reporters, Ford offered “five thousand and a car” to get it back, according to wiretap documents now available to media outlets.
The offer came in March, while the world only found out about the alleged crack video in mid-May.
The plot thickens even further: After Ford allegedly offered $5,000 and a car to those in possession of the damaging video, those supposedly holding the video said they also wanted to ask Ford for more, closer to $150,000.
It is still unknown whether Ford paid and obtained the original video. A copy was recently recovered by Toronto police on a laptop hardrive.
The documents also reveal Ford allegedly using heroin. Via wiretaps, gang member Harun is heard saying “he had Rob Ford smoking on the ‘dugga.’ He said he has so much (sic) pictures of Rob Ford doing the hezza (a slang sometimes used to describe heroin),” as the Star writes.
The news doesn’t stop there: As Global reports, “a man in possession of the alleged crack video, who’d been hawking it to journalists, is alleged to have been briefly ‘kidnapped’ by two associates in late May, apparently over the video.”
A month after both Gawker and Toronto Star published their reports on the alleged crack video, the individuals cited in these court documents were arrested in Project Traveller and charged with gun and drug offences.
