amato or mr. levinson. mole not only promised gardner $100,000 for just appearing in the courtroom any case, he promised him an additional $100,000 if he could get porteous to recuse himself or otherwise leave the case. under this effective bounty agreement on a federal judge, mole had just promised another lawyer a total of $200,000 for just appearing in the case and getting this judge to remove himself. what is remarkable, senators, is that this unethical promise was put into a written contract. and we have that contract. in return, gardner gave the magistrate's brother, tom wilkinson, $30,000. the problem is that porteous wasn't going anywhere. while the mole conspiracy should have been the subject of an investigation, the house decided to call mole, as they just told you, as their witness on the alleged unethical act of judge porteous. now, ultimately judge porteous ruled against his closest friend, gardner, and caused him that hundred thousand dollars bounty and other possible peace. with only a gift m

question and it was from creely and -- >> amato. >> question, amato? answer, yes. it was used to pay for your son's wedding? yes. question, would you dispute that the amount was $2,000? answer, i don't have any basis to dispute it. in addition in the fall of 1999, while judge porteous still had the case under advisement, creely and amato paid over $1,000 for a party in honor of judge porteous' fifth year on the federal bench. in april 2000, judge porteous issued his opinion in the case ruling for the wilgebergs on all major issues. lifemark appealed his decision and the fifth circuit reversed judge porteous in scathing terms describing it as inexplicable, a chimera boarding on the nonsensical, and absurd. thus, article 1 charges a pattern of course of conduct in connection of judge porteous' handling of the case including his failure to recuse himself, his making false and misleading statements at the recusal hearing, his soliciting in receipt of $2,000 from amato while the case was pending before him and his receipt of other things of value from creely including c

amato and mr. creely to the judge. doesn't know about any of this stuff that you know about, just -- >> i don't know of any money going from mr. amato and mr. creely to the judge, sir. >> let me finish, please. >> okay. >> you know the relationship that the judge has with these two lawyers, that was the subject of the recusal motion. you know that mr. mole doesn't know the facts behind it, and you say nothing. and you think that's perfectly fine for your client, is at right? >> say nothing about what? what do i say nothing about? i told -- they knew that they were all friends to begin with. that brought some fear to them, because they thought the judge would lean toward a friend. i told them he wouldn't. and then, i don't know -- what are you telling me, i knew that i should have disclosed? >> do you think, mr. gardener, that if you knew the judge was hitting up bob creel -- owe. >> i didn't know that. for the second or third time, i didn't know the judge was hitting up bob creely. oh for the gift

but now al de a m amato. >> most of these guys working in the post office should be driving cabs andut the skill level. that's why i allege they should be bumped down to driving cabs and stop importing labor to drive cabs. >> you are a nasty -- you are a nasty racist. when you begin to -- i'm going to just make my observation. i have a right to do it. you brought in the fact a bunch of nigerians. let me just tell you that's a bunch of bull [ bleep ] and you should be ashamed of yourself and have your mouth washed out. what the hell are you talking about? it's one thing to say they're out -- wait a minute -- shut up. i listened to your racist bull [ bleep ]. it's one thing to say that they're hiring people who are unskilled, that they're -- that you can save money, that you can run it better, that it is inefficient, ineffective and i agree to all of those things but for you to bring in this bull [ bleep ] about a bunch of nigerians et cetera, that's out of line. >> when he once filibustered a job killing jobs by singing down in mexico way when he's the voice of introspection, when he'