{"id":23095,"date":"2011-10-14T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=23095"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:12:46","slug":"lorinc-where-fords-breadcrumb-trail-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/14\/lorinc-where-fords-breadcrumb-trail-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"LORINC: Where Ford&#8217;s breadcrumb trail ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5007\/5258444883_0fea972378_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/spacingmedia.com\/uploads\/toronto\/feature-lorinc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were two highly revealing figures in the <a href=\"&quot;http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/ford-fundraising-events-missing-key-details\/article2192456\/\">supplementary campaign disclosures<\/a> filed by Mayor Rob Ford last week, as well as a lot of figures that weren\u2019t disclosed, but would likely be even more revealing.<\/p>\n<p>First, we learned that about 45% of Ford\u2019s total campaign donations came across the transom after he was elected mayor. As York University professor Robert Macdermid has pointed out to me, supplicants, lobbyists and other people doing business with the city have far more incentive to donate to an elected mayor than to a candidate in a large field. And donate they did: during the Harmony dinner last January, the mayor pulled in almost $792,000, an impressive windfall after a lack-lustre and poorly managed fundraising effort during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, those additional dollars didn\u2019t quite cover all of the mayor\u2019s expenses. Since May, as we know, he\u2019s been battling a compliance audit order, and has racked up over $55,000 in legal bills, which is the second impressive figure. By my reckoning, Tom Barlow, Ford\u2019s lawyer, appeared at four or five compliance audit meetings, and prepared documents to support the mayor\u2019s bid to have the order quashed by a court. If you do the math, Barlow probably clocked 100 hours on the mayor\u2019s case, which will be heard in an Ontario court this spring.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To cover those unforeseen costs, the mayor held three extra fundraisers in June, according to the documents his campaign filed with the city. There are virtually no details given, except the total raised at the door ($71,500), the date, and a title (\u201cBromell,\u201d \u201cHarbour 60\u201d and BILD\u201d). The campaign contends it spent nothing to hold these events. As I reported in The Globe, one was held in a developer\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we don\u2019t know (because the mayor\u2019s office has decided, on the advice of counsel, to say nothing about campaign expenses in light of the appeal):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 Given the nature of the disclosure rules, it is very difficult to determine from the latest campaign records who gave money to the mayor at these events. Were the attendees lobbyists, businessmen who want a city contract, or developers looking for an approval? Can\u2019t say.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Was city business discussed at these events? If so, the mayor should, in theory, have directed them to notify the lobbyist registrar that a contact had taken place. No such registrations have appeared with the registrar.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Did an individual or a business cover the cost of each event \u2013 i.e., took care of the food, drinks, rentals? Did the campaign record these expenditures as in-kind contributions? There is no evidence to suggest this disclosure has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is unclear whether the campaign sought to ensure that any in-kind contributions weren\u2019t provided by a corporation, which not allowed under City of Toronto campaign rules.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s something else to consider about the mayor\u2019s legal expenses going forward. According to the filings, Barlow billed up to late September, 2011. Next spring, he will be on his feet in an Ontario court, asking for the <a href=\"http:\/\/app.toronto.ca\/tmmis\/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2011.EA3.3\">compliance audit<\/a> committee\u2019s May 13 decision to be quashed. In the run-up to the appeal, he\u2019ll be hard at work preparing his case. The meter will be ticking. And if Barlow loses, the mayor is not only looking at more and larger legal bills, but also fees for the accountants retained by counsel to respond to the forensic auditor\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, that $55,000 to Barlow\u2019s firm will look like chump change compared to the professional fees Ford &amp; Co. will have to pay over the duration of the compliance audit.<\/p>\n<p>Except there will be this added plot twist: As of September 30, Rob Ford\u2019s mayoral campaign formally closed its books. If mayor intends to raise funds to help cover future legal and accounting bills associated with the compliance audit, it is unclear whether he will be obliged to leave any paper trail at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunnyshine80\/5258444883\/in\/photostream\/\"> photo by Samuel Bietenholz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two highly revealing figures in the supplementary campaign disclosures filed by Mayor Rob Ford last week, as well as a lot of figures that weren\u2019t disclosed, but would likely be even more revealing. First, we learned that about 45% of Ford\u2019s total campaign donations came across the transom after he was elected mayor.<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/14\/lorinc-where-fords-breadcrumb-trail-ends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;LORINC: Where Ford&#8217;s breadcrumb trail ends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,4801,17854,14306,18660,451,18620,18659,1463,18663,6378,426,18658,636,18662,818,6377,227,2372,17211,2064,18661,19,391,592],"class_list":["post-23095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2010-election","tag-businessmen","tag-compliance-audit","tag-counsel","tag-elected-mayor","tag-food-2","tag-ford-co","tag-forensic-auditor","tag-lawyer","tag-legal-and-accounting-bills","tag-lobbyist-registrar","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-at-these-events","tag-ontario","tag-ontario-court","tag-professor","tag-registrar","tag-rob-ford","tag-robert-macdermid","tag-samuel-bietenholz","tag-the-globe","tag-tom-barlow","tag-toronto","tag-usd","tag-york-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LORINC: Where Ford&#039;s breadcrumb trail ends - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2011\/10\/14\/lorinc-where-fords-breadcrumb-trail-ends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LORINC: Where Ford&#039;s breadcrumb trail ends - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There were two highly revealing figures in the supplementary campaign disclosures filed by Mayor Rob Ford last week, as well as a lot of figures that weren\u2019t disclosed, but would likely be even more revealing. 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