TORONTO'S controversial mayor Rob Ford is being sued over allegations he paid to have his sister's ex-boyfriend beaten up in jail.
Ford, whose indiscretions include smoking crack cocaine in a "drunken stupor", is being sued for $1m by his sister's former partner, Scott MacIntyre. He alleges that Ford paid a "jailed former [American] football player" from a team once coached by the mayor to assault him in the showers at the Toronto West Detention Centre.
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