now, there's been talk about creely attending tom porteous' bachelor party in may 1999. i'm going to note if you look at the testimony, creely said he was friends with timothy. timothy's a lawyer. he was very close to timothy. and he had great love for timothy. he expressed that in a hearing. he went to a friend's wedding. when he bought the lunch at his table, porteous was not at the table. and he threw in with the other attorneys at that time. now, as i mentioned earlier, the wedding gift is, frankly, the most serious problem. it occurred three years after the recusal hearing. so i'm not trying to excuse it. but i do wish you would keep in mind because these dates get blurred. it was three years after the recusal hearing when this wedding gift was handed over. and, yes, he went on this fishing trip. it was a very emotional thing. he was having trouble paying for his son's wedding. and it was a huge mistake. and the judge admitted it. it was not a bribe. not a kickback. it was a gift and it was dumb to be offered, dumb to be accepted. but both creely and amato made it c

now, there's been talk about creely attending tom porteous' bachelor party in may 1999. i'm going to note if you look at the testimony, creely said he was friends with timothy. timothy's a lawyer. he was very close to timothy. and he had great love for timothy. he expressed that in a hearing. he went to a friend's wedding. when he bought the lunch at his table, porteous was not at the table. and he threw in with the other attorneys at that time. now, as i mentioned earlier, the wedding gift is, frankly, the most serious problem. it occurred three years after the recusal hearing. so i'm not trying to excuse it. but i do wish you would keep in mind because these dates get blurred. it was three years after the recusal hearing when this wedding gift was handed over. and, yes, he went on this fishing trip. it was a very emotional thing. he was having trouble paying for his son's wedding. and it was a huge mistake. and the judge admitted it. it was not a bribe. not a kickback. it was a gift and it was dumb to be offered, dumb to be accepted. but both creely and amato made it c

now, there's been talk about creely attending tom porteous' bachelor party in may 1999. i'm going to note if you look at the testimony, creely said he was friends with timothy. timothy's a lawyer. he was very close to timothy. and he had great love for timothy. he expressed that in a hearing. he went to a friend's wedding. when he bought the lunch at his table, porteous was not at the table. and he threw in with the other attorneys at that time. now, as i mentioned earlier, the wedding gift is, frankly, the most serious problem. it occurred three years after the recusal hearing. so i'm not trying to excuse it. but i do wish you would keep in mind because these dates get blurred. it was three years after the recusal hearing when this wedding gift was handed over. and, yes, he went on this fishing trip. it was a very emotional thing. he was having trouble paying for his son's wedding. and it was a huge mistake. and the judge admitted it. it was not a bribe. not a kickback. it was a gift and it was dumb to be offered, dumb to be accepted. but both creely and amato made it c

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tom wilkinson arranged with mall to have one of porteous' closest friends, tom gardner into the case. 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 rul

porteous never took to directly heated car work? >> yes, sir. i would have lunch with him and he would say tom's car needs to be fixed. here's the keys. >> who paid for the repair? >> i did. >> did judge porteous ever reimburse you? >> no, never. >> did there come a time you provided home repairs to judge porteous? >> yes. a storm, some of his offense blew down and i assigned jeff and aubrey to do repair on the fence. >> did you recall whether he had to purchase construction material? >> yes he did. >> and if you stated in 2004 due thought jeff me have paid $200 for the board's? in your mind what jeff have a better idea how much he spent? >> jeff would no more because i was so involved with other things, you know, boards on defense were not really a priority in my life at that time. >> did jeff and skeeter actually do that work? >> yes, they did. >> in order about 1993 or '94 did you ever have occasion to arrange a trip to las vegas with judge porteous? >> yes, i did. >> do you recall how that came about? >> well, a kind of wanted to get closer to him and felt if we went on a trip together, you know, it would build a b

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