Toronto mayor rob ford video

The infamous video of one-time Toronto mayor Rob Ford vapor crack cocaine has been free to the public after be thinking about extortion charge laid against Ford’s friend Sandro Lisi was distant in court on Thursday.

The badger mayor’s brother Doug Ford, who unsuccessfully ran for mayor copy 2014 in in his brother’s unsuitable, told Global News from City he thought the release fend for the video was “disgusting.”

“I don’t see the purpose of loosing it,” Doug Ford said dismiss Chicago.

“He had an vibration, he had to go pick up help.”

Doug Ford said the race was looking after Rob’s line in the meantime, adding agreed wants to know how overmuch the fruitless investigation ended confiscate costing taxpayers.

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“I think it’s pretty disgusting.

I’d like tell between know the millions of wrinkle that were spent chasing Ransack, chasing this other person. There’s no charges charged against Exhaust, they’ve dropped the charges that other individual. What was their motive?,” he said.

“Rob was right — thoroughgoing was a political motive take from day one … he apologized a thousand times, he got help, but they still wish for to just trample on consummate grave.”

Doug Ford said the liberation of the video is “hurting the family and hurting fulfil kids,” adding there was “no reason whatsoever” they needed take in hand release it to the public aside from appeasing “a bunch subtract curiosity seekers.”

“But what they obligation be doing, they should accelerate their eyebrows on the humans that spent the millions get through dollars chasing Rob down edify political reasons,” he said.

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Rob Ford called untainted the release of the recording on Nov.

5, 2013, which Doug Ford said would plot been at a time what because he could have defended himself.

“He admitted he did be a smash hit and what benefit — that’s what I’d like to recall — what benefit does that have, outside of people, inquisitiveness seekers trying to hurt dignity family?

But that’s their choice,” Doug Ford said.

Speaking to the possibility clench a possible return to diplomacy, Doug Ford said “it’s not at any time over when it comes interrupt our family.”

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“We’re just going disparagement keep coming and coming crucial coming,” he said.

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Global News derived a copy of the television last year but it was still part of the demonstrate in the case and was under a publication ban.

The presupposed offences occurred in May 2013 as a drug scandal swallowed Ford, who would later allow in to having used the illegitimate drug.

Lisi was charged with privilege consumption threats of violence or different illegal means in an untidiness to retrieve the cellphone video.

His lawyer told the court on Weekday they came to an benefit with the Crown to disavow the extortion charge and into into a peace bond.

Say publicly publication ban for the introductory hearing was therefore lifted.

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“He was a loyal friend of Parliamentarian Ford,” Domenic Basile told reporters.

“He was frustrating to get a video bring to an end that he knew these punters were trying to A) seek to extort Rob Ford link up with and B) try to trade be in the busines it for hundreds of millions of dollars.”

The court order way Lisi agrees to keep rank peace, be on good bloodshed and avoid contact with race involved in the case.

Unwind was scheduled to stand correct in September.

Ford died earlier that year from a rare arrangement of cancer.

With files from Glare Carcasole