and he ultimately went to judge wilkinson's brother, tom wilkinson, the jefferson parish attorney, someone who could help with a problem with a judge. tom wilkinson is reported under criminal investigation in louisiana for corruption, and his brother, magistrate wilkinson, recently recused himself from all criminal cases. 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

wilkinson is now reportedlyn entered investigation for him corruption in louisiana. then mole met with him and then wilkinson got him to meet with one of judge porteous's closest, ndiends on gardiner. gardner a and he went to gardiner andry offered an extraordinarythe contract which we've put in theo record. that contract promised $100,000 if he joined the case and offered him another $100,000 ifo he could get porteous to recuse himself $200,000 but that wasn't the all.ouss the contract actually said by the way, once he's gone, you are gone. rece if you get him to recuse himsele i will give you $200,000 you goa bouncing this can't be beat cookies to the court system. the problem with this scheme whereby mr. mole is that it didn't work because he said you do not want to go to tom. you don't want me to go to him and tell him to recuse himself t because he will react veryusedo negatively and refused to go, on this is his own testimony, refused to go to ask for his ultimately the judge's decision cost his closest friend to hundred thousand dollars. mole himself admitted

wilkinson is now reportedly under investigation for corruption in louisiana. so mole met with him and then wilkinson got mole to meet with one of judge porteous's closest friends, don gardner. and he went to gardner and offered him an extraordinary contract which we have put in the record. that contract promised mol mole $100,000 if he joined the case. and offered him another $100,000 if he could get porteous to recuse himself. $200,000. but that was not all. the contract actually said, by the way, once porteous is gone, you're gone. so if you get him to recuse yourself, i'll give him dz -- i'll give you $200,000 and you go away and we can go perly on bouncing this case through the court system. the problem with this scheme by 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 decisi

wilkinson is now reportedly under investigation for corruption in louisiana. so mole met with him and then wilkinson got mole to meet with one of judge porteous's closest friends, don gardner. and he went to gardner and offered him an extraordinary contract which we have put in the record. that contract promised mol mole $100,000 if he joined the case. and offered him another $100,000 if he could get porteous to recuse himself. $200,000. but that was not all. the contract actually said, by the way, once porteous is gone, you're gone. so if you get him to recuse yourself, i'll give him dz -- i'll give you $200,000 and you go away and we can go perly on bouncing this case through the court system. the problem with this scheme by 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 decisi

kendra wilkinson is now a reality star and she's made a lot of money doing her -- her thing.ut of the notoriety of the reality show from hugh hefner. if he's happy and she's happy -- >> that's all that matters. if i could come back in another life i'd come back as hef. that man has lived the most incredible kind of life. hef, you keep on knocking them out, man. >>> octomom back in the news. apparently this may not be the best holiday for her. she is way back on her mortgage payments. this guy who lent her money and her 14 kids to live in this house in california, apparently she's almost in debt to him in back mortgage payments by $500,000. she has until the end of this month to pay up, if not, he's going to evict her. come january the 1st. she may be homeless for the holidays. octomom needs to pay up. >> you knew there was a problem a couple of weeks ago. we reported here in "the skinny" the octomom was having a garage sale to sell some of her items to try to make some money. apparently that was not as successful as she had hoped. >>> back to our top story on "world news now.

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wilkinson is now reportedly under investigation for corruption in louisiana. so mole met with him and then wilkinson got mole to meet with one of judge porteous's closest friends, don gardner. and he went to gardner and offered him an extraordinary contract which we have put in the record. that contract promised mol mole $100,000 if he joined the case. and offered him another $100,000 if he could get porteous to recuse himself. $200,000. but that was not all. the contract actually said, by the way, once porteous is gone, you're gone. so if you get him to recuse yourself, i'll give him dz -- i'll give you $200,000 and you go away and we can go perly on bouncing this case through the court system. the problem with this scheme by 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 decisi