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A former lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, who was accused of leading a double life of upstate family man and Manhattan pervert, pleaded guilty yesterday to statutory rape and patronizing a prostitute. James Colliton spent his weekends at his home in Poughkeepsie, NY with his wife and five children. During the week, he stayed at a residence on 56th St. and Park Ave. where he now admits that he had sex with two teenage sisters over a long period of time. Colliton paid their mother so he could have the young girls at his beck and call, but supposedly had one of the two live with him for a time. The girls' mother pleaded guilty in 2006 to offering her daughters to Colliton in exchange for money, cell phones, and clothes, and received a 90 day sentence for child endangerment.
Because of the guilty plea, which involved a one-year sentence, Colliton is eligible for release immediately because he's already been in jail for 19 months. The lenient deal may have to do with the fact that the prosecution's case was disintegrating. Before her guilty plea, the girls' mother insisted that she was innocent and the younger of the two sisters changed her story, saying that she was coerced into accusing the lawyer by her older sister, who allegedly failed to get money out of Colliton after becoming pregnant by another man. Nonetheless, Colliton ran for it and was eventually arrested by Ontario police at a Niagra Falls hotel, but mistakenly released. The law eventually found the lawyer holed up at the St. Mark's Hotel in the East Village.
Prosecutors claim they have tapes of Colliton begging the two sisters not to implicate him and accused the man of keeping "a harem" of as many as ten underage girls. Colliton's lawyer, however, says that he has a number of affidavits from the girls' relatives saying that they were lying and the girls' own mother was willing to testify in his defense, despite her prior guilty plea. Colliton's wife doesn't believe the charges and says that her husband accepted the deal, which will require that he register as a sex offender, to avoid a prison stretch that could have lasted decades.
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Strange stuff like this is more common than you think. Every one hides a side that they only let out in the dark.
Its all the internet's fault!
I blame rap music.
white trash hos and their white trash pimp.
no not, mr. colliton but the one who got the older sister pregnant. let's put him in jail.
not that there's a specific look to people that have sex with minors, but the picture certainly makes him look like that type of person.
whats the look? fat old white guy?
so can he sue for the extra 7 months he had to spend in jail?
lets get a picture of the two girls.
How much are creepy looking white trash pedophiles worth in prison currency....?
He was not a partner... just an associate
He should have called Jacoby and Meyers. And definitely not wear white shows after Labor day.
"Oh, we're just so happy he's coming home!" Grace Colliton said tearfully after learning that, following his plea to statutory rape charges, her husband will likely be freed Oct. 11 after 19 months in jail.
WTF? I need to find me a wife like that....
ha My husband's a filthy pedophile, but hey, at least daddy's coming home...with the bacon!
[10] Thanks; I made a change above. The Post was the only paper to make a distinction today and it says partner.
the girls weren't black.
I would never expect a judge to send a lawyer to jail. There's just too much cronyism.
all fine and good that he got convicted but only 90 days for the mother who pimped out her girls? that's merely "child endangerment"? that's messed up.
#10 Dave, that's what you get for repeating anything from the NY Post.
For anyone who believes without skepticism everything he reads in the NY Post, I have a bridge to sell to you.
17, that is messed up. I wonder if they needed her to roll on Colliton.
of course the wife is standing by him, thats her meal ticket. he was a M&A lawyer
i'm from poughkeepsie and i swear there is a disproportionate amount of creepy news out of there. i mean, tawana brawley, kendall francois (serial killer), and now this guy?