Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot
Mayor Rob Ford’s habit of doing drugs with gang members led to him being targeted in an apparent extortion plot related to the crack cocaine video and possibly a series of photographs of him in compromising situations, newly released police documents say.
At one point earlier this year, Ford offered $5,000 and a car to a gang member in exchange for the embarrassing video, an offer that was rejected. The same gang member planned to ask for $150,000 from Ford in return for the video of him smoking crack cocaine and making homophobic and racially charged remarks.
Meanwhile, the series of wiretap recordings of gang members reveals there were more images of the mayor doing drugs and according to one man being in “a lot of f---ed up situations.” Crack cocaine and [b]possibly heroin[/b] are the drugs involved, along with marijuana, according to the police documents.
Two gang members are heard discussing a “kidnapping.” According to the wiretaps, they kidnapped Siad for an hour and talked to him about “the video.”
“Siad was crying, saying he destroyed the video and his family is in trouble,” according to the wiretapped call. One of the men discussing said he warned Siad that if he “saw him in Dixon he would kill him.”