we'll go through the sfmta's financial advisory team. e way that we came up with our financial advisory team, we went through a selective competitive process proposed -- through the request for proposal process. we decided that we were going to go with three members of the team. to begin with, our lead is the public financial management team with two sub consultants, robert kue and the pineapple group. secondly we have the backstrom mccarley berry team also with robert kuo consulting, and scott balice strategies. and ross financial also with robert cuo consulting and capital partnerships. i wanted to briefly go over what each team will be concentrating on. for the lead, public finance management, we're going to be concentrating on the financial planning and the debt management function yament. -- functionality. with backstrom mccarley berry & company we're going to be concentrating on the city garages and the central projects. and with ross financial, we're concentrating on alternative revenue analysis, fleet management plan and leverage,

look at this diagram here, if you look to basically 7:00 there, you'll see the financial advisory which is the role that this team will be playing. also involved will be the underwriter, the entity, which will be selling the bonds to the marketed place, in the investors. other key characters that will be involved will be bond counsel. they will be basically providing opinions that the bonds meet the various tax requirements. also that the various authorities have been in place, and that you actually have legal authority to enter into the specific transaction. another key entity will be disclosure counsel. what's been in the press a lot recently has been transparency in the market. they want to make sure that the information that you convey to potential investors is clear, accurate, and gives an investor a full understanding of the financial picture so they can make an informed decision about whether or not they want to own your bonds or not. as mentioned, there will be the rating agency. and there will be a trustee which basically serves to collect the debt service on the bond and then pay those out to investors.

financial realities make it babble for the adams to continue as lead attorneys. because they believe in the governor's innocence, they both remain members of the legal team in advisory roles. >> keeps them from having those extra minds to be able to react on something. and even though they say they're going to volunteer to help in advising, that's not going to help in the courtroom. >> reporter: adams spearheaded the case. no one knows yet just how much the case itself could change come january. will witnesses like congressman jesse jackson jr. or white house chief of staff rahm emanuel be taking the stand? could tony rezko testify? and two courtroom daredevils who weren't afraid of the judge. >> you're talking about having to react to either something the government does or the judge asks. and you can't wait until nighttime to go and ask for advice on this. you have to react then and what's done is done. what a jury has heard, a jury has heard. you can't erase that. >> reporter: now, there was much talk about blagojevich raising funds independently to help pay for his defense. we're being told that money has not materialized. as for lawyers wishing to help out out