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Rob Ford refused to comment Thursday on the latest bombshell launched at him as a new lawsuit claims he ordered a vicious jailhouse assault against his sister’s ex-boyfriend to keep him quiet.

“I can’t talk about it, it’s all before the courts,” Ford told a Washington, D.C. sports radio show in his weekly appearance. “That’s all I’ve got to say. I can’t say anything.”

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The mayor sounded resigned when asked if he was going “crazy” with all of the allegations swirling around him.

“It’s ongoing. What are you going to do?” he told The Sports Junkies, who have had Ford as a guest to talk about the NFL over the last two months. “I focus on the taxpayers’ money. I work out.”

Ford spoke at length about football and the recently charged Justin Bieber on the program, before taking a seat in city council for budget debates Thursday morning.

Scott MacIntyre, a former common-law spouse of the mayor’s sister, Kathy Ford, was brutally beaten in a Toronto jail in 2012. No charges have been laid in relation to the assault.