The police document states that the video was filmed in February of 2013 and done “surreptitiously.” The document also states that “the Mayor was apparently in the company of several individuals at the time of the recording.” No identities of those people are given in the document.
After learning in May (the document indicates Lisi learned of it prior to the May 16 publication of the crack video stories) that someone was trying to “sell the video to various media outlets” police allege Lisi made aggressive attempts to obtain the video.
“(Lisi) placed several threatening/extorting phone calls to individuals he felt may be in possession of the video recording,” the document states, noting the time period of the alleged threats was Thursday May 16 to Saturday May 18. “The accused insinuated that there would be consequences for the failure to return the video recording depicting the video images of the Mayor.”
The target of the alleged extortion attempts were two men, Liban Siyad and Mohamed Siad. Siad is the man who filmed the video, the Star has previously reported. Both men lived near the Dixon City towers that are a stones throw from 15 Windsor, the bungalow where the video was filmed.
The description of the video being filmed in February, and Ford apparently doing drugs at the time, is at odds with comments by Ford in recent days. Ford has said he has not done drugs for a year.
