A Gossip website has raised enough funds to buy the video allegedly showing the Mayor of Toronto Canada smoking crack with drug dealers.  Problem is, the guy who originally had the video might have been murdered.

Gawker says that one of its reporters has viewed the video that was being shopped around by the alleged crack dealers, and it does, they say, show a clear picture of a disheveled and barely coherent and porcine Mayor Rob Ford smoking something from a glass pipe.

The Toronto Star published a report of its own saying that two its reporters had also seen the same video, but refused to pay the price.  Gawker decided to raise $200,000 through Internet crowd sourcing, and hit that goal today.

Meanwhile, Rob Ford lost two more top staffers.  After firing his chief of staff last Friday, Ford’s press secretary and deputy press secretary both handed in their resignations and walked out of city hall today, saying they could no longer represent the conservative mayor after his statement last Friday. 

At that time, Ford told reporters, “I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine. As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.” 

He issued that statement as his Chief of Staff was escorted out by security.

And now there is world that Toronto Police questioned a member of Ford’s staff, reportedly about the death of a man linked to the crack video.

The Toronto Globe and Mail reported detectives spoke to an informant in the mayor’s office who purported to know the address and unit number where the video was being held.  They said the video originally belonged to an individual who may have been killed for its potentially valuable contents.

Rob Ford is not under arrest and has not been charged with any crime.