text: Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, said it will protect its Ford script and oval logo from use by supporters of embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. 
   
   Rob Ford, 44, yesterday signed shirts emblazoned with �Ford Nation� incorporating the automaker�s logo at a United Way charity event, the National Post newspaper reported. The mayor said for the first time Wednesday he bought illegal drugs while in office after admitting last week to using crack cocaine and being drunk in public. 
   
   �Ford did not grant permission for use of its logo,� Jay Cooney, a company spokesman, said Wednesday by telephone. �We view it as an unauthorized use of our trademark and have asked it to be stopped.� 
   
   Ford reclaimed control of its blue oval logo last year after using it and other assets as collateral to borrow $23.4 billion in 2006 which allowed the company to weather the global financial crisis. The Dearborn-based company regained control after Moody�s Investors Service became the second major ratings company to upgrade the carmaker to investment grade. 
   
   Rob Ford�s revelation Wednesday that he purchased illegal drugs while in office came amid questioning at a city hall meeting in which a majority of city councilors asked him to take a leave of absence to address his �challenges.� 
   
   Ford rose 2.3 percent to $17.10 at the close in New York. The shares have surged 32 percent this year, compared with a 25 percent gain for the Standard & Poor�s 500 Index. ||||| Booze. Crack cocaine. Calling a taxi driver “Paki.” Violence. Drinking and driving. A hooker visiting City Hall. Showing up impaired at a military charity ball for injured soldiers. Connections to criminals. 
   
   The Toronto Police Service has built a huge file of allegations on Mayor Rob Ford’s improper activities, new court documents reveal. Much of it coming from Ford staffers who bought the mayor booze, say they knew of his substance abuse problems and stood by while the mayor lied to the city, saying he had no problems and there was no crack video. 
   
   Those same staffers knew the mayor avoided “ethnic events” he was asked to attend, and kept light hours, typically working 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and frequently disappeared for lengthy stretches of time, the document states. An earlier Star story revealed police surveillance caught Ford calling or meeting an alleged drug dealer and his pals many times during regular business hours. 
   
   And, tucked amidst a sad collection of binge drinking and repulsive behaviour (Ford, married with two children, allegedly told a young female security guard at city hall he “was going to eat her box”) is a window into the world of Rob and Doug, the brothers Ford, who police learned have an intense rivalry with each other. 
   
   “Doug Ford and Mayor Ford have a very interesting relationship,” detectives were told when they interviewed Mark Towhey, the mayor’s former chief of staff. “Doug Ford believes that Mayor Ford owes everything he has to him and vice versa.” 
   
   As Ford defended himself at city hall Wednesday, Justice Ian Nordheimer released a second batch of allegations against Ford, contained in a search warrant application used in the police case against Ford friend and occasional driver Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. Lisi, who was previously convicted of threatening to kill a woman, is facing charges of drug trafficking and extortion, the latter in connection with an alleged attempt to retrieve the crack video. None of the allegations have been proven in court and the mayor has not been charged. The documents — parts are still blacked out — do not say who allegedly instructed Lisi to retrieve the video of Ford smoking crack cocaine and making racial and homophobic slurs. 
   
   The newly revealed documents raised the temperature of the Fords, already warmed by a day that saw fellow city politicians urge the mayor to take a leave of absence. “Be very careful on what you write,” Mayor Ford warned reporters repeatedly as the day drew to a close. 
   
   Long before the May 16 news of the crack video’s existence, Ford staffers had allegedly endured physical violence and abuse from Mayor Ford, and witnessed a municipal politician more at home drinking vodka in a schoolyard than attending committee meetings at city hall. 
   
   When detectives, following revelations in the Star and on Gawker.com, went on the hunt for Ford information they quickly learned that staffers had a serious concern that Ford was drinking and driving, sometimes in a school zone. One former staffer, Chris Fickel, told police he frequently had to buy vodka — it was always the Iceberg brand — for Ford. Fickel said other staffers including Nico Fidani, Kia Nejatian, Michael Prempeh, Amin Massoudi and Isaac Shirokoff also purchased vodka for Ford when the mayor asked. 
   
   Fickel said on one occasion, in the fall of 2012, he was a passenger in Ford’s Escalade and the mayor was driving and talking football. On hand was Payman Aboodowleh, a friend and assistant football coach on Ford’s team. Aboodowleh has a criminal record for theft and assaulting a police officer. According to Fickel, “the mayor pulled his car over (likely at a high school, was Fickel’s recollection) and grabbed an LCBO paper bag from in front of the passenger seat which contained a fresh bottle of vodka and drank the 11 or 12 oz. mickey in one-two minutes going back and forth with a Gatorade.” 
   
   Fickel said he got out of the Escalade soon after and Ford kept driving. Fickel noted to detectives that Ford quickly became “rambling and incoherent” after drinking. There is no indication that any of these staffers contacted police with concerns Ford was drinking and driving. 
   
   In two videos the Toronto Star has seen — the video where Ford rants he is going to kill someone and the crack video — Ford is incoherent and rambling. 
   
   The police document has numerous references to times when Ford appeared severely impaired. There are other points when, usually at a time when Ford is under the influence of something (staff are never sure what, but in interviews with police some say it may be cocaine) Ford allegedly tries to hurt one of his young staffers. These alleged assaults have been the subject of police inquiry, but no charges have been laid. 
   
   One night at a strip club, the police document states, “the Mayor assaulted (Isaac) Shirokoff,” a special assistant to Ford who is now a graduate student at Queen’s University. “This happened one night when they were out at a strip club and the mayor was doing cocaine.” The information was relayed to police by former staffer Chris Fickel. Shirokoff has been asked to comment on this allegation previously, but has denied it to the Star. Shirokoff refused to give a statement to police. 
   
   Other people allegedly assaulted by Ford include current chief of staff Earl Provost and former staffer Brooks Barnett, according to the police document, which records the allegations but does not say if they are pursuing charges. 
   
   In one section, the document describes how Ford called three staffers “Liberal bitches” and “Liberal hacks” and how he pushed one of them, roughly into the wall at city hall. That night, the now infamous Bier Markt night that included a drunken romp at city hall, Ford drank heavily from a 40 ounce bottle of vodka, the police document states. A woman present that night at city hall was rumoured to be a prostitute that Ford had previously been seen with at a stag. 
   
   The account of the night, as told to detectives, includes a description of how a drunken Ford began crying about his father. Ford crying is mentioned several times in the document, with staffers saying Ford cried when he lost his job coaching Don Bosco’s football team, and was at his father’s grave (his late father was a provincial MPP) late one night, sounding impaired, and calling them in tears from his cellular phone. 
   
   The document paints a picture of a mayor’s office out of control, mostly staffed by young, inexperienced people drawn, from time to time, from Ford’s football world. Among the few older people were Dave Price, Ford’s former football coach from high school days, George Christopoulos, once a public relations officer for the Toronto police and Towhey, who had a military and consulting background. The youngsters ran errands, buying vodka for the mayor or picking up his drycleaning. One former staffer, Jennifer Dwyer, had serious concerns that Ford was driving impaired, police were told. 
   
   Dwyer and fellow staffer Kia Nejatian had arrived in the spring of 2012 to collect Ford from his house and take him to an event. “Ford appeared to be under the influence and impaired. He looked red faced, sweating and was talking quickly,” Nejatian told police. Ford told Dwyer, a young woman, to hop in his Escalade and they drove off. Nejatian told police that Dwyer was concerned because Ford seemed to be driving impaired and because he made her accompany him to a “rough neighbourhood” to give money to a football player Ford knew. 
   
   Some of the frustration the detectives on the case have faced is clear. When detectives went to talk to Dwyer, she did not corroborate Nejatian’s story. 
   
   On the Bier Markt night in 2012, St. Patrick’s Day, Ford was intent on going out on the town, Ford took a taxi with some of his staffers. According to what staffers later told police investigating allegations involving Ford, the mayor “started calling the taxi driver a “Paki,” threw business cards at him and made mocking fake language sounds. 
   
   The Bier Markt incident included, staff told police, a woman they believed was a prostitute or “escort” who knew Ford. She is described by staff as young, petite, and blonde. The woman knew Ford from a stag he had attended and Ford was concerned that his staff be “discreet” around her. Former staffer Isaac Ransom told police there have long been “rumours” that Ford uses “escorts or prostitutes.” That night, which included a visit from Ford friend and former TTC employee Peter Kordas, Ford said he wanted to “get laid” and smoke hashish or marijuana, according to the police document. In one section it describes Ford allegedly doing a “bump” of cocaine off his own wrist. 
   
   The document also sheds more light on the Garrison Ball in 2013, a story reported by the Star prior to the crack video story. 
   
   According to the police document, Ford had been away on vacation and was returning to attend the military ball. Staffers told police Ford showed up with his kids and he was “out of it.” At one point, detectives were told, Ford tried to put chief of staff Mark Towhey in a “headlock.” 
   
   Prior to the ball, Towhey was trying to reach Ford and called Ford friend Lisi, which led to him speaking with the mayor by phone. Lisi was driving, police were told. 
   
   According to the police document: “The mayor was talking very quickly and was almost incoherent. He had his children with him. Towhey did not feel the mayor was in a presentable state so he told him to not bother attending.” 
   
   But Ford was determined to attend. Towhey, the police document states, warned Ford it would not go well for him if he attended, telling him if he attended impaired “his career as a politician would be over.” 
   
   Ford did attend, driven by Lisi, with friend Bruno Bellissimo, a crack addict, in the Escalade with the Ford children. A Ford staffer was delegated to take the two young children to McDonald’s while Ford, stumbling, made his way around the important military ball. After the ball (the Star has reported that Ford was asked to leave) Towhey took all evening events off the calendar for Ford. 
   
   The document also describes Ford’s response on May 17, the day a front page story in the Star detailed the crack video. 
   
   Towhey told police he advised Ford to take one of three suggested courses of action: Fight and try and “bulldoze” his way through the controversy; Resign; or take a leave of absence. 
   
   Shortly after he presented these options, Ford fired Towhey. Staffers told police that Ford enjoyed when staffers who left his employ had to do the “walk of shame” as they publicly left the office. 
   
   According to former press secretary Christopoulos, who spoke to police, Ford came up with his own unscripted response. 
   
   “I do not do crack cocaine, I do not do this and the Star sucks,” Christopolous told detectives.
target: – For your average big city mayor, admitting that you bought illegal drugs while in office would be the most damaging thing to happen in a day—but Rob Ford's not your average mayor. Soon after a press conference in which the crack-smoking, binge-drinking Toronto mayor claimed his closet was empty of skeletons, a judge released evidence from witnesses—mainly Ford staffers—who alleged he had abused drugs including cocaine and OxyContin, partied with prostitutes at City Hall, racially abused a taxi driver, and attacked several staff members, reports the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and the National Post. Among the partially redacted allegations included in a huge police dossier on Ford's activities: Ford staffers worried about how their boss often drove drunk, sometimes in school zones. One staffer told police he was in the car with Ford when the mayor downed a 12-ounce bottle of vodka in a few swigs, chasing it with Gatorade. He says Ford was frequently so drunk he was "rambling and incoherent"—and he and other junior staff members were often sent to buy alcohol. Staff members told police that some women came to the mayor's office saying Ford had told them they could have a job after they smoked joints with him outside of bars. St. Patrick's Day last year appears to have been a wild night even by Rob Ford standards, the police documents reveal. During celebrations, staffers say Ford drank heavily from a bottle of vodka and was seen at City Hall with a woman believed to be an escort. Against staffers' advice, Ford—who talked about "going out then getting laid"—then took a taxi to a bar, calling the driver a "Paki" and throwing a handful of business cards at him. He later moved on to a second bar, where a waiter says he saw Ford and an unknown woman apparently snorting cocaine. After an intoxicated Ford stormed the dance floor, he was asked to leave. He then returned to City Hall, where he continued to drink, attacked two staffers, and made lewd remarks to a female security guard before staffers managed to get him into a taxi home, according to witness statements. Upon arrival at the residence, a staffer who accompanied Ford says the drunken mayor got in his own car and sped off. Toronto's city council has voted 37 to 5 to ask Ford to step down, at least temporarily, but the increasingly isolated mayor is adamant about staying on. Meanwhile, Ford Motor Co. has told the mayor and his supporters to stop using its logo on T-shirts and other items, reports the Detroit News, and organizers of this year's Santa Claus Parade have asked Ford to stay away. Click for a stroll through some of Hizzoner's lowlights.