III 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1031 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 17, 2010 
Received 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., judge of the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of Lou-
isiana, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., a judge of the 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Lou-
isiana, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and 
that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the 
Senate: 
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States of America in the name of 
itself and all of the people of the United States of America, 
against G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., a judge in the United 
States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 
in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him 
for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
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ARTICLE I 
G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., while a Federal judge of the 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Lou-
isiana, engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible 
with the trust and confidence placed in him as a Federal 
judge, as follows: 
Judge Porteous, while presiding as a United States dis-
trict judge in Lifemark Hospitals of Louisiana, Inc. v. 
Liljeberg Enterprises, denied a motion to recuse himself from 
the case, despite the fact that he had a corrupt financial rela-
tionship with the law firm of Amato & Creely, P.C. which had 
entered the case to represent Liljeberg. In denying the mo-
tion to recuse, and in contravention of clear canons of judicial 
ethics, Judge Porteous failed to disclose that beginning in or 
about the late 1980s while he was a State court judge in the 
24th Judicial District Court in the State of Louisiana, he en-
gaged in a corrupt scheme with attorneys, Jacob Amato, Jr., 
and Robert Creely, whereby Judge Porteous appointed 
Amato’s law partner as a ‘‘curator’’ in hundreds of cases and 
thereafter requested and accepted from Amato & Creely a 
portion of the curatorship fees which had been paid to the 
firm. During the period of this scheme, the fees received by 
Amato & Creely amounted to approximately $40,000, and the 
amounts paid by Amato & Creely to Judge Porteous amount-
ed to approximately $20,000. 
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Judge Porteous also made intentionally misleading state-
ments at the recusal hearing intended to minimize the extent 
of his personal relationship with the two attorneys. In so 
doing, and in failing to disclose to Lifemark and its counsel 
the true circumstances of his relationship with the Amato & 
Creely law firm, Judge Porteous deprived the Fifth Circuit 
Court of Appeals of critical information for its review of a pe-
tition for a writ of mandamus, which sought to overrule 
Judge Porteous’s denial of the recusal motion. His conduct 
deprived the parties and the public of the right to the honest 
services of his office. 
Judge Porteous also engaged in corrupt conduct after 
the Lifemark v. Liljeberg bench trial, and while he had the 
case under advisement, in that he solicited and accepted 
things of value from both Amato and his law partner Creely, 
including a payment of thousands of dollars in cash. There-
after, and without disclosing his corrupt relationship with the 
attorneys of Amato & Creely PLC or his receipt from them 
of cash and other things of value, Judge Porteous ruled in 
favor of their client, Liljeberg. 
By virtue of this corrupt relationship and his conduct as 
a Federal judge, Judge Porteous brought his court into scan-
dal and disrepute, prejudiced public respect for, and con-
fidence in, the Federal judiciary, and demonstrated that he 
is unfit for the office of Federal judge. 
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Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty of 
high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from 
office. 
ARTICLE II 
G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., engaged in a longstanding 
pattern of corrupt conduct that demonstrates his unfitness to 
serve as a United States District Court Judge. That conduct 
included the following: Beginning in or about the late 1980s 
while he was a State court judge in the 24th Judicial District 
Court in the State of Louisiana, and continuing while he was 
a Federal judge in the United States District Court for the 
Eastern District of Louisiana, Judge Porteous engaged in a 
corrupt relationship with bail bondsman Louis M. Marcotte, 
III, and his sister Lori Marcotte. As part of this corrupt rela-
tionship, Judge Porteous solicited and accepted numerous 
things of value, including meals, trips, home repairs, and car 
repairs, for his personal use and benefit, while at the same 
time taking official actions that benefitted the Marcottes. 
These official actions by Judge Porteous included, while on 
the State bench, setting, reducing, and splitting bonds as re-
quested by the Marcottes, and improperly setting aside or 
expunging felony convictions for two Marcotte employees (in 
one case after Judge Porteous had been confirmed by the 
Senate but before being sworn in as a Federal judge). In ad-
dition, both while on the State bench and on the Federal 
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bench, Judge Porteous used the power and prestige of his of-
fice to assist the Marcottes in forming relationships with 
State judicial officers and individuals important to the 
Marcottes’ business. As Judge Porteous well knew and under-
stood, Louis Marcotte also made false statements to the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation in an effort to assist Judge 
Porteous in being appointed to the Federal bench. 
Accordingly, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., has en-
gaged in conduct so utterly lacking in honesty and integrity 
that he is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit 
to hold the office of Federal judge, and should be removed 
from office. 
ARTICLE III 
Beginning in or about March 2001 and continuing 
through about July 2004, while a Federal judge in the 
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Lou-
isiana, G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., engaged in a pattern of con-
duct inconsistent with the trust and confidence placed in him 
as a Federal judge by knowingly and intentionally making 
material false statements and representations under penalty 
of perjury related to his personal bankruptcy filing and by re-
peatedly violating a court order in his bankruptcy case. Judge 
Porteous did so by— 
(1) using a false name and a post office box address 
to conceal his identity as the debtor in the case; 
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