1. There were more than 100 meetings between mayor Rob Ford and alleged drug dealer Alessandro Lisi over the course of this investigation—that is, from May to October.
2. When you add it all up, the six-man Toronto police “spin team” spent weeks—what the Star calls “hundreds of hours”—following Lisi and Ford. Law enforcement officials used all kinds of techniques to get at them, too, including outdoor cameras mounted on telephone poles, car-tracking devices, audio bugs and even an airplane.
3. The day after the Gawker article about the alleged Rob Ford crack video that sparked this whole investigation, the cops assigned homicide detective Sergeant Gary Giroux to “investigate the existence of a cellular phone containing a video of Ford smoking crack cocaine.”
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