Sandro Lisi: Friend and sometime-driver of Toronto’s mayor, accused of drug trafficking, has a rap sheet that includes violence against women, lives with his mom. The mayor has referred to him as a “good guy”.
The special police probe into Toronto’s Mayor and his skeevy friends has a name, and it’s a great one: Project Brazen 2! A spin-off of the guns-and-gangs crackdown Project Traveller (just like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine were spin-offs of the X-Men movies), Project Brazen 2 was launched when Mayor Rob Ford’s friend and sometime-driver — and let’s not forget the details of a rap sheet that included violence against women, and the fact that he still lives with his mom — tried to secure the return of stolen cell phone in exchange for drugs.
The cell phone is believed to belong to Rob Ford. There are reports of the mayor and his staff being concerned when the phone went missing in March, although it’s not clear why. The phone went missing at a rather suspicious time: about a week or two before the Toronto Star learned of the existence of the infamous alleged “crack video” and two months before the Star and Gawker published their reports. The police investigation reports says that Lisi “brokering the return of a cellular phone stolen from an associate of his” in exchange for a “payment of marijuana”. It doesn’t say if he got the phone back or not.
Here’s an interesting fact: Project Brazen 2 is not a sequel to Project Brazen. It’s just that some other branch of the Toronto Police already had a Project Brazen going on at about the same time, nobody checked if the name was already taken, and both groups seemed rather attached to the name “Brazen”. You could consider them unrelated in the same way that the film often known as Hackers 2 has absolutely nothing to do with Hackers, or you could think of it as typically Canadian in the way we used to have two Canadian Football League teams with practically the same homoerotic names (Saskatchewan Roughriders, still active, and the defunct Ottawa Rough Riders).
Still, Project Brazen 2 would make a great name for an action flick:
