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"On more than one occasion, Security allowed the former Mayor to use an entrance to exit from the underground parking lot, in order to leave City Hall without encountering waiting media. On one of those occasions, a security guard covered a security video camera recording the mayor while he...

The Star is describing this latest report as a "bombshell". Is it really? I don't know about that. We all knew CH security were under Ford's thumb already. The crack video story was a bombshell.

The defense chose not to call any witnesses to the stand today. I suppose that means they think they have a strong chance of winning? Closing arguments begin tomorrow. I'm thinking Lisi will be found not guilty. Not sure about Bahrami, though.

I assumed Doug was referring to "wobbly pops". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wobbly_pop

Colin Perkel from Canadian Press tweets: @Perkel Fair to say Sandro Lisi/Jay Bahrami drug trial is descending into bit of a farce as it wraps. Looks like wording of the charge may be faulty. @Perkel Turns out charge against Lisi forgot to mention the word 'marijuana.' Crown wants to add...

One thing in the Lisi ITO that got me thinking was the part that mentioned he was seen exiting the dry cleaners carrying a pizza box from Pizza Pizza. The ITO didn't specify exactly how he was carrying it, ie. was he holding it horizontal as if there was a pizza in it (but really it was...

Today's court session was pretty boring. The highlight was watching the court clerk drifting in and out of sleep.

I'm here today. Room 124 instead of 114. Basilie is the only one from the extortion case. Oh wait, the female lawyer, not sure of her name, has joined us, as has Giroux.

It's really too bad the police didn't have Lisi's or Ford's phone wiretapped when the flurry of phone calls were happening around the time when the crack video story broke. I'm curious as to how key figures of the mafia were brought down. For instance, John Gotti. Was there public knowledge...

Lisi's parents had a house of theirs on the market a couple of years ago (the house was mentioned in the ITO). Not sure if it was sold but if it was I'm wondering if the money was used to pay for Lisi's lawyers, one of whom is Seth Weinstein, a high profile lawyer and one that, I would imagine...

Just got a copy of the "Mayor On Crack" 45 by SFH (Warren Kinsella's punk band) and I smiled reading the thank yous from the record label in the liner notes:

You're right, whatthe. My mistake.

Friendly reminder: Lisi's preliminary for his drug charge resumes on April 27.

I'm not sure how easily a perjury charge is handed down to someone on the stand but I would imagine that lawyers would do their best to get the truth out of Ford. For example: Did you have breakfast this morning? No, I didn't. But we have a photo of you at the kitchen table. Ooooh wait, now...

I would not be surprised if he tries the same thing come September. "I'm still recovering from surgery, I can't testify".

He seems like a jolly fella. I saw him in the courtroom wearing suspenders before he had a chance to put on his garb. I chuckled.

I would imagine Goldsbie would tweet something like "that's a wrap, folks" if it weren't continuing tomorrow and Friday. So, that's a yes :) Speaking of Goldsbie, these two tweets from him are interesting: "I believe that was the longest I went without checking Twitter during this whole...

Lisi's lawyer tells Global News that Ford won't testify until after his surgery - http://globalnews.ca/news/1939394/ford-wont-testify-at-lisi-extortion-hearing-until-after-surgery-lawyer/?hootPostID=bd1315531be52d9bb1a467f9dbfff2e1 This publication ban is confusing!

I'm not there and it's killing me. Thursday late afternoon hopefully and all day Friday are my next UT shifts :)

My guess is Ford wanted that letter no matter what the result of the tests were. Maybe he spoke about it with the doctor beforehand and he said "bring your lawyer and we'll talk about it".