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$200k raised to buy alleged Ford video to be donated to Canadian organizations
TORONTO – Money raised to buy an alleged video appearing to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine will instead be going to four Canadian organizations.
Gawker, the U.S. website behind the fundraiser, had promised to donate the roughly $200,000 it collected if the video didn’t surface.
A message posted on the website today says the cash will be split four ways between the Somali Canadian Association of Etobicoke, the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, Unison Health and Community Services and the Ontario Regional Addictions Partnership Committee.
It says each organization will receive about $46,200.
The website says Indiegogo, the crowdfunding site that hosted the campaign, and PayPal, which processed the payments, each withheld part of the money for their services.
In the message, Gawker editor John Cook says he’s “disappointed” the money won’t serve to buy the alleged video, which he says he has seen.
Ford has said that he does not use crack cocaine and the alleged video does not exist.
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