Adam Schiff

So if Judge Porteous were aware that the income level was inaccurate in the petition, that gambling debts were not listed, that the tax refund was not included when he answered that everything in the petition was accurate, that would have…

During the meeting with the trustee in which Judge Porteous was present and was under oath, does a trustee generally ask the bankruptcy petitioner whether everything in their bankruptcy petition is correct and accurate to the best of their…

And if someone has applied for a tax refund prior to the filing, a week before the filing, would that be considered sufficiently liquidated to be reported?

Wouldn't the purpose have been to let people know that maybe creditors of the person filing the petition, that someone is filing a petition and if they need to make a claim, that this is happening?

Why would those creditors not file claims?

And do you remember what everyone got, the creditors got in this plan?

But had these markers been listed, had these casinos been listed on his bankruptcy petition, would that mean that at the end of the day, depending on the bankruptcy plan that the trustee and court arrive on, that the casinos would have…

Well, my question is, conservatively, from the period of '95 to 2000, if there were 100,000 that he was paying through cash, check, or credit card for gaming, does that indicate on average about a $20,000-a-year expenditure on gambling…

Now, during the period from 1995 to 2000 and 1997 to 2000, during that 3- to 5-year period you were able to total up, looking at cash, checks, and credit cards, gambling debts of around 100,000, right?

So if in the course of this period in 2001 and part of 2002 he had 149,000 in markers and left the casino with 11,000 not repaid, we would know at a minimum the losses were 11,000, but they may have been substantially greater?

It is more complicated than that, isn't it? Because the fact that he walked out of the casino having paid off the marker doesn't mean that he walked out without losses.

The gentlewoman yields back.

At this point, you have to check. You're not aware of how much of the 149,000 was in that loss that subsequently had to be repaid?

So sometimes they took advantage of the process, the link to his bank account, and actually when he didn't within the time period make the payment, they went and they drew the funds out of his account?

Those multiple transactions were at the same casino, and it just reflected the process of the evening of cashing in and cashing out.

This hearing of the House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Judicial Impeachment will now come to order.

Some of the markers he would pay in chips, and some he would pay a day or so later, and some he would pay a week or two later.

What did he tell you about it?

I hope that we can work together to begin to address some of the unjust and unintended consequences of mandatory minimum sentences.

What they chose to do with that choice is largely bring people before military commissions that were so flawed that none of the convictions were upheld.

What the Obama administration has said is that in some cases they are going to bring people before military commissions; in other cases they are going to bring people before Federal district courts.

The bill deals with the threshold question, but it also sets out a menu of options, including military courts-martial.

I believe there's nothing in the Geneva Convention that precludes us from trying an unlawful unprivileged combatant.

Notwithstanding the changes announced by the Administration, I believe the commissions system has proved so flawed, and its due process so inadequate and discredited, that it should be completely junked.

Congress must be involved in the formulation of this new system, and changes should not be made solely by Executive Order.