Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'jamescolliton'
July 22, 2008
James Colliton, who pleaded guilty to statutory rape, is suing American Express for telling the authorities his whereabouts when authorities were looking for him. Colliton, who had made $500,000/year at white shoe law firm Cravath, Swain & Moore, had paid a women to have sex with her underage daughters and was suspected of having a "harem" of underage girls in a Manhattan apartment--while his wife and family lived in Poughkeepsie. Colliton was found in Canada,......
Continue Reading "Lolita-Loving Lawyer Sues American Express"December 29, 2007
Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on East 112th St. and 3rd Ave. in Manhattan, shots fired at 132nd St. and Madison Ave. in Manhattan, and a commercial burglary on 4th Ave. and 90th St. in Brooklyn. Page Six lists its top ten scoops of the year. #1 is about Rosie O'Donnell's writer being escorted from The View offices for drawing magic marker mustaches on pictures of Elizabeth Hasselbeck, and rumors that......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"October 3, 2007
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......
Continue Reading "White-Shoe Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Sex With Girls"April 14, 2006
The story of the white-shoe lawyer and his penchant for underage girls has its first plea deal: The mother of two girls has now admitted to offering her daughters in exchange for money, cell phones, and clothes. The mother, who had been claiming her innocence, .will not have to testify against James Colliton - and avoids a possible 11 year jail sentence for prostitution. Instead, she has been sentenced to 90 days by a judge......
Continue Reading "Mother Pleads Guilty to Offering Daughters for Sex"March 20, 2006
As if the story about the former white shoe attorney who paid a mother have sex with her underage daughers couldn't get crazier: The younger daughter now claims her mother never pimped her out and that it was all her older sister's doing. The younger girl, who is now 15, feels terrible that her mother was arrested for prostituting her daughters, because she says her older sister actually pushed her into relationship when the older......
Continue Reading "Strange Twist in Lolita Lovin' Lawyer Story"March 3, 2006
Holy white shoe: A tax attorney at Cravath, Swain and Moore is on the run from police who want him in New York to face various charges of paying a mother to have sex with her young teen daughters. James Colliton was caught at Niagara Falls, and the Ontario police were holding him - but somehow, he was released, much to the DA's office's dismay. The girls' mother is being held on $100,000 for promoting......
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