IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1031 
Impeaching G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., judge of the United States District 
Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, for high crimes and mis-
demeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 21, 2010 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. GOOD-
LATTE, Ms. JACKSON
LEE
of Texas, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. 
DELAHUNT, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
FORBES, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. PIERLUISI, and 
Mr. GONZALEZ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Judiciary 
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 Louisiana, is impeached for high crimes and mis-
demeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment 
be exhibited to the Senate: 
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
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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 impeach-
ment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I 
G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., while a Federal judge of 
the United States District Court for the Eastern District 
of Louisiana, engaged in a pattern of conduct that is in-
compatible with the trust and confidence placed in him 
as a Federal judge, as follows: 
Judge Porteous, while presiding as a United States 
district 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 finan-
cial relationship with the law firm of Amato & Creely, P.C. 
which had entered the case to represent Liljeberg. In de-
nying the motion 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 engaged 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 re-
quested and accepted from Amato & Creely a portion of 
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the curatorship fees which had been paid to the firm. Dur-
ing 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 
amounted to approximately $20,000. 
Judge Porteous also made intentionally misleading 
statements 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 petition 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 accept-
ed things of value from both Amato and his law partner 
Creely, including a payment of thousands of dollars in 
cash. Thereafter, and without disclosing his corrupt rela-
tionship 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. 
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By virtue of this corrupt relationship and his conduct 
as a Federal judge, Judge Porteous brought his court into 
scandal and disrepute, prejudiced public respect for, and 
confidence in, the Federal judiciary, and demonstrated 
that he is unfit for the office of Federal judge. 
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 con-
tinuing 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 relationship, 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 offi-
cial actions by Judge Porteous included, while on the 
State bench, setting, reducing, and splitting bonds as re-
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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 addition, both while on the State bench and on the Fed-
eral bench, Judge Porteous used the power and prestige 
of his office to assist the Marcottes in forming relation-
ships with State judicial officers and individuals important 
to the Marcottes’ business. As Judge Porteous well knew 
and understood, Louis Marcotte also made false state-
ments to the Federal 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 integ-
rity 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 
Louisiana, G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., engaged in a pattern 
of conduct inconsistent with the trust and confidence 
placed in him as a Federal judge by knowingly and inten-
tionally making material false statements and representa-
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tions under penalty of perjury related to his personal 
bankruptcy filing and by repeatedly violating a court order 
in his bankruptcy case. Judge Porteous did so by— 
(1) using a false name and a post office box ad-
dress to conceal his identity as the debtor in the 
case; 
(2) concealing assets; 
(3) concealing preferential payments to certain 
creditors; 
(4) concealing gambling losses and other gam-
bling debts; and 
(5) incurring new debts while the case was 
pending, in violation of the bankruptcy court’s order. 
In doing so, Judge Porteous brought his court into 
scandal and disrepute, prejudiced public respect for and 
confidence in the Federal judiciary, and demonstrated that 
he is unfit for the office of Federal judge. 
Wherefore, Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., is guilty 
of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed 
from office. 
ARTICLE IV 
In 1994, in connection with his nomination to be a 
judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., knowingly 
made material false statements about his past to both the 
United States Senate and to the Federal Bureau of Inves-
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tigation in order to obtain the office of United States Dis-
trict Court Judge. These false statements included the fol-
lowing: 
(1) On his Supplemental SF–86, Judge 
Porteous was asked if there was anything in his per-
sonal life that could be used by someone to coerce 
or blackmail him, or if there was anything in his life 
that could cause an embarrassment to Judge 
Porteous or the President if publicly known. Judge 
Porteous answered ‘‘no’’ to this question and signed 
the form under the warning that a false statement 
was punishable by law. 
(2) During his background check, Judge 
Porteous falsely told the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation on two separate occasions that he was not 
concealing any activity or conduct that could be used 
to influence, pressure, coerce, or compromise him in 
any way or that would impact negatively on his 
character, reputation, judgment, or discretion. 
(3) On the Senate Judiciary Committee’s 
‘‘Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees’’, Judge 
Porteous was asked whether any unfavorable infor-
mation existed that could affect his nomination. 
Judge Porteous answered that, to the best of his 
knowledge, he did ‘‘not know of any unfavorable in-
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formation that may affect [his] nomination’’. Judge 
Porteous signed that questionnaire by swearing that 
‘‘the information provided in this statement is, to 
the best of my knowledge, true and accurate’’. 
However, in truth and in fact, as Judge Porteous 
then well knew, each of these answers was materially false 
because Judge Porteous had engaged in a corrupt rela-
tionship with the law firm Amato & Creely, whereby Judge 
Porteous appointed Creely 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 and also had engaged in a corrupt rela-
tionship with Louis and Lori Marcotte, whereby 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. As Judge 
Porteous well knew and understood, Louis Marcotte also 
made false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion in an effort to assist Judge Porteous in being ap-
pointed to the Federal bench. Judge Porteous’s failure to 
disclose these corrupt relationships deprived the United 
States Senate and the public of information that would 
have had a material impact on his confirmation. 
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