Toronto’s integrity commissioner criticized Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford in separate reports released Wednesday.

Janet Leiper wrote that Doug Ford had violated council’s code of conduct when he used “intimidating language” toward an activist at City Hall in July. Council should require a written apology, she wrote.

The councillor responded angrily, telling the Star that the activist’s complaint was “a bunch of crap” and the National Post that the activist is “a little prick.”

Meanwhile, Rob Ford’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on Leiper’s report on the mayor, which said he has not proved he complied with a 2010 council order to repay lobbyists who donated to his football charity. Council should demand that he provide proof by March 6, she wrote.

Leiper wrote that she had asked the mayor six times over 13 months for confirmation that he had complied with council’s order. In October, Ford finally provided letters from three lobbyists who said they did not want to be reimbursed.

Leiper was unsatisfied. “I wrote to Mayor Ford to confirm his obligation to obey council’s decision,” she wrote. “I advised Mayor Ford that asking lobbyist-donors for the additional favour of forgiving repayment could amount to a breach of the Lobbyist Code of Conduct.” Ford has not responded.

Leiper found that 11 lobbyists or clients of lobbyists donated a total of $3,150 to the Rob Ford Football Foundation, which funds school football programs, between August 2009 and May 2010. Council agreed with Leiper’s finding that Ford improperly solicited donations from lobbyists and improperly used his influence by making appeals for donations on his official city letterhead.

Leiper’s report on Doug Ford endorsed the July complaint filed by Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler, a left-leaning former library board member who sought audits of both Fords’ campaign financial statements in 2011.

The confrontation occurred the week before the compliance audit committee was to hear, and reject, his group’s challenge to Doug Ford’s statements.

Doug Ford “accosted” him near the council chamber, Chaleff-Freudenthaler wrote, and aggressively told him to be “prepared” for something Ford didn’t identify. Later, he wrote, Ford told him that he “should be careful because ‘what goes around comes around.’”

Ford was unrepentant on Wednesday. Without evidence, he accused Chaleff-Freudenthaler of acting on behalf of the city’s unions. He said he would not go beyond a tepid earlier “apology” in which he suggested Chaleff-Freudenthaler had misunderstood him.

“I already did apologize. And they didn’t want it. So they want me to do back flips. I did absolutely nothing, nothing wrong, in my mind ... all I said is, ‘Buddy, you gotta get your facts straight,’ and ‘What comes around goes around.’ If people think that’s bad, well, so be it.”

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Chaleff-Freudenthaler said Ford’s intemperate Wednesday comments are “consistent with his general demeanor in the interaction that we had.” He said council should endorse Leiper’s call for an apology.

“I believe that no member of the public should walk into City Hall and wonder if they’re going to be threatened as they go about their business,” he said.

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