TinyTiny
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Yeah... I get that. But can't someone speculate? Jesus, if I put a days work in I could connect some dots... I just hate the worldwide media picking up on just our mayor smoking crack. For me, it's not about him smoking crack. It's about the connection to a god damn murder.
Some kid lost his life. Put that on the front page. That's the story.
Since you used the word speculate - I'm just going to come out and say what I've been thinking for the last few months. This is all pure speculation and I have no insider knowledge or anything like that. I'm just trying to make sense of all the puzzle pieces...
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Siad or Smith records Ford on crack. Smith decides to use the video to blackmail Ford, asks for money or he'll go public with it. Ford enlists Lisi to clean up his mess. Lisi calls in a hit on Smith.
Siad ends up with the only copy of the video, he's spooked because Ford has shown he can be ruthless if they go after him directly, but he still wants a payday out of this. They shop it to Gawker and the Star. Siad's people approach CNN, who directly phone the mayor's office for a comment, forcing Gawker's hand. Story breaks.
Ford enlists Lisi to retrieve and/or destroy Siad's video. Lisi beats up Ford's friends and finds out how to get to Siad, threatens him in some way and forces Siad to delete the video on the computer. But there is an encrypted backup online.
Ford has press conference saying he cannot comment on a video that he has not seen or does not exist (because at this point he thinks it does not exist other than an encrypted copy tucked away in an unknown location). Enlists hacker through Massoudi to retrieve and destroy video.
Traveller happens and the police confiscate the original computer that has the deleted version of the video. Hashimi has already turned himself in and is processed rapidly through the courts and takes a 9 year manslaughter plea deal after originally being charged with 1st degree murder in the Anthony Smith shooting. His accomplice also pleas down to an unusually light sentence. Both cases are referred to as highly unusual in terms of the light sentences and the quick resolutions.
The Vice story, if true, is the first step down the road to prove the links, hinting at the fact that Ford had contact with Hanad Mohamed, the guy who drove the getaway car for Hashimi. The circumstances of Hashimi's plea deal make me wonder if he has already provided the Crown with some information...
This set of scenarios does not, of course, address the separate Ford thread of losing his cell phone and having Lisi try to broker a deal to obtain it, nor does it address videos #2 or #3.
I can't imagine how insanely chaotic Ford's life has been since around January...
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