TORONTO – Another batch of documents from Project Brazen 2, the police investigation into Mayor Rob Ford and his friend Sandro Lisi, could be released Wednesday morning.
Lawyers representing Global News and several other Toronto-area media organizations have been in court for several months fighting to publish the documents.
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The previous set of documents from the same investigation revealed police had been following Lisi and Ford for months and witnessed several meeting between the two where they exchanged packages, met at gas stations and near Scarlett Heights Secondary School.
The documents also contained police interviews with some of the mayor’s former staffers who alleged the mayor had driven after drinking, drank alcohol while at city hall and dispatched taxpayer-funded staffers to buy him booze.
The mayor has said the latter is untrue. None of the statements in those documents has been proven in court.
Whatever the new documents contain, the mayor’s brother Councillor Doug Ford isn’t worried.
“No, I’ll just leave that up to the police, they have their job to do,” he said.
Both Ford brothers have accused police brass of bias against the mayor, claiming the investigation was politically motivated and surveillance was a waste of taxpayer money. Police Chief Bill Blair ceded oversight of the case to the Ontario Provincial Police earlier this month, citing “distractions” detracting from the case.
The investigation into Lisi and the mayor was sparked by allegations from the Toronto Star and Gawker in May, 2013 that Ford had been filmed smoking what could be crack cocaine. The mayor spent months denying the allegations until finally admitting to the using the drug after police Blair confirmed police had obtained and watched the video.
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