Video Showing Mayor Smoking Crack is ‘Gone’

Despite raising $200,000 to buy a video reportedly showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack, Gawker reports that “after a long silence, the video’s owner reached out to the intermediary we have been dealing with. He told him the video is ‘gone.'”

“‘It’s gone’ could mean many things. It might mean that the video has been destroyed. It might mean that it has been handed over to Ford or his allies. It might mean that he intends to sell or give it to a Canadian media outlet. It might mean that the Toronto Police Department has seized it and plans to use it as evidence in a criminal investigation. It might mean that it has been transferred to the custody of Somali community leaders for safekeeping. It might be a lie. The intermediary doesn’t know.”