mr. gardner is already having transition meetings, meetings of his committee. they're doing work in oakland, california, to get ready for mayor kwan's administration. now, i've heard on a number of occasions here in san francisco that maybe the board shouldn't act because there's not a vacancy in office yet. but the fact that there's not a vacancy in the office of oakland mayor, as the mayor there still occupies that seat, is not deterring jean kwan, henry gardner and many others from doing the work to prepare to run the city of oakland. now, here in san francisco, with our process for electing mayors, typically a mayor would have had, you know, about a month to put together a transition team, a chair to transition that team, if that's the structure that they would want to use to start talking to, you know, existing city staff, potential recruits or new hires to deal with budget issues. i know that our governor elect is also doing this type of work, as i think many of us have been invited to a budget briefing up in sacramento that the governor elect is hosting

mr. gardner in a ao second. he was friends with amato and creely since the 1970's both crh amato and creely said they were edth friends.ic the practice altogether, the men hunted and fished together, them knew eachil other's families. timothy testified that there were known as uncle jake andbob. uncle bob. creely taught him how to fish, amato taught him how to cook. they were close friends, so was done gardner was even closer.gardener he asked him to be the godfather to one of his daughters. bacrou, now with this background i would like to read senate article 1. e first, the house asserts these,l judge failed to disclose while he is a state judge the corrupta scheme with these attorneys. ise this is of course predicated on the fact that there is a corrupe scheme.se i the problem with thes house case is the house witnesses who denied the scheme. sen both at trial and in the senatep deposition, mr. creeleyvowed -- expressly disavowed come had an agreement with the judge where he received to readershipr in exchange

mrs. edwards revealed the kind of fortitude and grace that will long remain a source of inspiration, to total strangers, including darlene gardner who runs a cancer support group and a wig store. >> i think she represented the courage in the face of this. we will never forget her. >> reporter: today, an outpouring of messages about mrs. edwards, her courage and perseverance. among them, her doctor who praised her for her participation in that clinical trial, saying that only through this kind of partnership between patients and researchers will we finally put an end to cancer. brian, that means people of all different types. >> a legacy her family can be proud of. thank you, nancy. good to see you. >>> up next, if you think your child is in shape because they play organized sports at school, you'll want to hear this next item. >>> a successful and history making launch today. nasa launched a private spacecraft into earth orbit. it's called space-x. it was launched from cape canaveral on top of a falcon 9 rocket. three hours later it came back to earth with a successful splashdown in the pacific. space-x could be used to get carg

gardner, as you will hear, was far closer to porteous and his son and either the plaintiffs attorneys, mr. amato for mr. levenson. mole not only promised gardner $100,000 for just appearing in the courtroom in the case, he promised them 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 was 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 cost him that $100,000 bounty, and other possible other fees.

mr. mole is that it didn't work because don gardner said, you do not want to go to tom porteous. you don't want me to go to tom porteous and tell him to recuse himself because he will react very negatively. and he refused to go -- this is his own testimony -- refused to go to porteous to ask for his recusal. ultimately the judge's decision cost his closest friend $200,000. mole, himself, admitted that he had never seen a contract like the one he wrote and witnesses testifying said they were shocked to learn of a contract where someone actually put a bounty on a federal judge and offered $200,000 if you can get him off the case. nevertheless, when gardner lost that case, he said, the judge gave him a fair hearing. he said, look, this judge is just not bribeable, he gave us a fair hearing. he disagreed with us and we lost. by the way, this isn't mentioned by the house. creely also practiced before the judge. he was not the counsel, by the way, he was not the counsel in lifemark, but creely actually did have a couple of cases in front of the judge and the judge ruled against him and

mr. mole is that it didn't work because don gardner said, you do not want to go to tom porteous. you don't want me to go to tom porteous and tell him to recuse himself because he will react very negatively. and he refused to go -- this is his own testimony -- refused to go to porteous to ask for his recusal. ultimately the judge's decision cost his closest friend $200,000. mole, himself, admitted that he had never seen a contract like the one he wrote and witnesses testifying said they were shocked to learn of a contract where someone actually put a bounty on a federal judge and offered $200,000 if you can get him off the case. nevertheless, when gardner lost that case, he said, the judge gave him a fair hearing. he said, look, this judge is just not bribeable, he gave us a fair hearing. he disagreed with us and we lost. by the way, this isn't mentioned by the house. creely also practiced before the judge. he was not the counsel, by the way, he was not the counsel in lifemark, but creely actually did have a couple of cases in front of the judge and the judge ruled against him and

mr. mole is that it didn't work because don gardner said, you do not want to go to tom porteous. you don't want me to go to tom porteous and tell him to recuse himself because he will react very negatively. and he refused to go -- this is his own testimony -- refused to go to porteous to ask for his recusal. ultimately the judge's decision cost his closest friend $200,000. mole, himself, admitted that he had never seen a contract like the one he wrote and witnesses testifying said they were shocked to learn of a contract where someone actually put a bounty on a federal judge and offered $200,000 if you can get him off the case. nevertheless, when gardner lost that case, he said, the judge gave him a fair hearing. he said, look, this judge is just not bribeable, he gave us a fair hearing. he disagreed with us and we lost. by the way, this isn't mentioned by the house. creely also practiced before the judge. he was not the counsel, by the way, he was not the counsel in lifemark, but creely actually did have a couple of cases in front of the judge and the judge ruled against him and