TORONTO

You would think if there is anybody who should have been shaken up with the latest court document bombshells, it should have been Mayor Rob Ford.

He wasn’t last night.

In fact, the release of the wire taps that suggest he tried to buy the infamous crack video, told a staffer where the video might be found and was involved with heroin had him in a jovial mood — and even laughing.

He has admitted to being “in a drunken stupor” and trying “crack cocaine,” and previous lies about it. But these conversations recorded by police who were investigating alleged gang members are fiction, he insisted.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

“It’s so far fetched, it isn’t even funny,” he said with his famous chuckle.

Still, the released once-blacked-out details of the Information to obtain a warrant for surveillance sure had people jumping.

One of the key elements indicates that Toronto Police intercepted a call on March 27 between Mohamed Siad and Siyadin Abdi who talked about extorting cash from the mayor in exchange for the crack video.

“Remember that day he (believed to be Ford) said that in front of me?” Siad said in the untested court transcript.

“Ya,” said Abdi “He said I’ll give you $5,000 and a car.”

On the same wire tap one voice says they were thinking of more like “100 or 150 (thought to be $100,000 or $150,000).”

There was also chatter from one guy to another of “pictures” of Ford “doing the hezza” which is slang for heroin.

Ford was driving from City Hall over to the Revival Club on College St. at Shaw for a Christmas Party with his lawyer Dennis Morris in tow Wednesday and thought the whole notion of offering to purchase the video or him using heroin was comical.

“You have to talk to Dennis about it Joe, but as I said, it is far fetched,” he said.

The mayor handed the phone to Morris.

“It’s all noise,” insisted Morris. “It means nothing. It’s A talking to B talking to C. Heck, there could be lots of people talking about Rob Ford right now.”

He doesn’t believe these new details will harm the mayor.

“When the mayor’s voice is heard on an intercept talking about heroin, I have told him then he has something to worry about,” he said. “When I hear the mayor’s voice on an intercept talking about buying a video, then I think he should be concerned, but that is not what this is. It is hearsay, it’s innuendo. It’s third hand gossip.”

Morris said the whole exercise of releasing 500 pages of intelligence on somebody without any testing it in a fair hearing is not only unprecedented but “outrageous.”

No one else, said Morris, has ever faced this kind of scrutiny.

“It’s garbage,” said Morris. “It’s a final grasp of the media to try to put down the mayor.”

Although he finds it “amazing the effort of going after the mayor instead of the alleged extortion of him” he also is skeptical there ever really was such a thing.

“Anybody can say anything,” said Morris. “Did anybody ask the guys doing the talking if that’s what they meant? It doesn’t add up to anything.”

He said this time “Chief Blair got it right by saying the information is before the courts.”

Perhaps Bill Blair one day will be asked why it is that millions could be spent on an undercover surveillance with plenty of unflattering photographs and suggested legal concerns but no criminal charges have been laid against Ford?

Morris said he doesn’t think any are coming.

“There is nothing here but gossip,” he added. “It’s going nowhere.”

At Revival, the mayor was mobbed for pictures and pats on the back.

“Olivia Chow is here, maybe she wants to be in a picture with the mayor,” teased Morris.

Chow is a potential candidate for mayor and from all accounts did not pose for a frame with the mayor but they could be on the same debate stage in the new year.

Photographer Dave Abel said by the time he got over to the club, Chow had left, but Ford was definitely the rock star he has been reported to be in recent weeks.

“He had a big smile on his face,” he said. “It was like he was having fun.”

Ford told me, even though this document appears to have damning details, he is having fun.

“I am fine,” said the mayor. “I am doing great.”

There were lots of people on council and around the city who are angered by what the ITO seems to indicate.

But the guy at the centre of the surveillance doesn’t happen to be one of them.

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