It would be an even bigger deal if Ford actually paid the guy for the video - imagine the Mayor of Toronto donating $200K to the City's crack ring!! That would be an even larger story than the video, and there's no way in hell the video-maker wouldn't come forward to say so. The only way he/she would is if he/she were to be put in a garbage bag in the lake
That being said - it's FAR more likely that the video-maker is in hiding. Regardless, no doubt the police are making threats about what will happen to him/her, because by now there's no doubt the police have given rewards to those in the drug community to rat on the party that made the video. So now the police know who did it, and can easily threaten to make an arrest for any number of charges if the video should happen to come out.4