Rob Ford's Toronto

[ColinZeal]

I had mine for Mar 27.

 

[jml]

MetroMan indicating the speculation about murder charges, mafia stuff, etcetera probably a bit outsized.

 

[TJ O'Pootertoot]

I believe JimmiT said it was shot at Payman Abudababdoo's parents' home. I think he said it was some kids goofing around, and that a friend of theirs videoed the phone.

Then the big remaining question is whether Ford is just wired and doing some kind of "bit" about wrestling or whatever, if he's really threatening Scott MacIntyre (or someone else) or something else entirely. I never took it that he was really threatening someone (it just seems sooooo over the top) but I'm curious...

MetroMan indicating the speculation about murder charges, mafia stuff, etcetera probably a bit outsized.

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I always thought people were getting carried away with that stuff. Extortion, assault and related conspiracy charges in relation to retrieving the video always seemed more probable. It's not a question of all the bad things he's done, it's a question of what they can nail him for. I don't know if they need Lisi or if the iCloud stuff helped but, really, how hard should it be to connect the dots between Ford and then Lisi's efforts in Dixon to get it, to say nothing of the Basso beating?

 

[jml]

The thing that always convinced me it was about someone specific (and not about arm wrestling Hulk Hogan or what would happen in a theoretical match with Mike Tyson) was that Ford calls the offending party "racist" and says they called him and his brothers "liars, thieves, and birds".

 

[TheTigerMaster]

I had mine for Mar 27.

Put me down for April 3rd.

 

[SJD_Toronto]

April 14 for me!

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Has the thread been devouring its own tail again?

I was in for the 12th of April. No matter. We can wait.

 

[anne]

May be an old list, I'm sure I have you in there on the final list JimmiT.

I think mine was April 7.

 

[Kat_YYZ]

don't think anyone posted these. Ford went to FunnyMan Comedy Night in Richmond Hill on Friday (via Goldsbie's twitter):
http://instagram.com/p/li-fCjpRvG/
http://instagram.com/p/li_Yb0nt0A/

don't know if he just dropped in or watched the whole thing. good idea to go and lobby for the "comedian" vote -- 'vote for me, guys, I've given you loads of material!'

 

[animatronic]

MetroMan indicating the speculation about murder charges, mafia stuff, etcetera probably a bit outsized.

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If the most serious charge is that Ford "tried to cover up" a video of him smoking crack that was taken by a bunch of drug dealers, it's going to turn him into a martyr.

 

[whatthe]

If the most serious charge is that Ford "tried to cover up" a video of him smoking crack that was taken by a bunch of drug dealers, it's going to turn him into a martyr.

If those were the only charges, the federal crown wouldn't be involved. So if Metroman is right that the feds are involved, there's more to it than obstruction of justice.

 

[ahm]

Obstruction of justice is not a minor thing for the Chief Magistrate. Smoking crack occasionally? No problem. But the leader of our city should not be preventing the police from doing their jobs.

 

[Dubster]

Obstruction of justice is not a minor thing for the Chief Magistrate. Smoking crack occasionally? No problem. But the leader of our city should not be preventing the police from doing their jobs.

MetroMan knows a lot but I doubt even he knows the particulars of what evidence the police currently have.

 

[animatronic]

Obstruction of justice is not a minor thing for the Chief Magistrate. Smoking crack occasionally? No problem. But the leader of our city should not be preventing the police from doing their jobs.

it may be legally serious, but if the narrative is that poor little Ford was just trying to get even with the big bad people who we're blackmailing him, it's going to get messy.

 

[greenegg]

I also had March 20.