SAN DIEGO -- A strip club owner who said he gave thousands of dollars to three city councilmen in return for their votes to repeal San Diego's "no-touch" ordinance continued testifying Thursday.

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Galardi and his live-in girlfriend testified about his giving cash in an envelope to his lobbyist.

Lance Malone, who is one of the four defendants in the city council corruption trial, was told to use it in hopes of changing the city's no touch ordinance for adult entertainment businesses.

Neither Galardi or his girlfriend could say, though, if the money had been delivered.

Galardi testified Tuesday that he gave lobbyist Lance Malone $16,000 in cash with instructions to "hand it out" to the councilmen he was bribing in 2003.

The strip club owner is on the witness stand in the federal trial of councilmen Ralph Inzunza and Michael Zucchet, Malone and David Cowan, a former aide to the late Councilman Charles Lewis, who died last August.

Galardi testified Tuesday he was getting frustrated with the councilmen because he had been giving them money and they had promised to change the "no-touch" ordinance back to a less-defined lewd and lascivious standard.

The law, enacted in October 2000, prohibits patrons from having any physical contact with dancers in adult entertainment establishments.

Inzunza and Zucchet claim any monies received were legal campaign contributions.

Galardi said his family and Malone's family were staying at a Laguna Beach hotel in April 2003 when Galardi gave his lobbyist money to take with him for a trip to San Diego.

"I gave him an envelope with $10,000 cash," Galardi said. "I told him to hand it out to the councilmen."

The next day, Malone told Galardi that the councilmen took the money, and "everything's looking good," Galardi testified.

About a month before, Galardi, while at his rental house in San Diego, had given Malone $6,000 to divide evenly among the three councilmen, he testified.

"He said they took the cash and everything was looking good," the strip club boss testified.

Once his clubs in San Diego and Las Vegas were raided, Galardi said he decided to plead guilty and cooperate with authorities in exchange for a sentence of no more than five years in prison.

Inzunza, Lewis, Zucchet, Galardi, Malone, Cheetah's San Diego manager John D'Intino and Cowan were indicted in August 2003.

The councilmen were charged with extortion, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Cowan was charged with lying to the FBI.

D'Intino pleaded guilty in 2003 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and may also testify for the prosecution.

Galardi told Gentile that he didn't know until after he pleaded guilty that the FBI had been tapping his phones and using an undercover informant.

The informant, Tony Montagna, introduced D'Intino to a supposed corrupt vice officer whom they paid for advance tips.

Galardi and Malone also considered using the supposed corrupt officer to testify before the council's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee that "no-touch" was a waste of police resources, Galardi testified.