I’ve resisted blogging this before - but the lawsuits keep coming and it is practically impossible to ignore. It’s a story of a tax attorney gone bad, really bad. And while I don’t usually like to call attention to a colleague’s misery on the blog, this guy deserves it. Read on.
James Colliton once worked for the prestigious law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP as a tax attorney. His life has since taken a pretty despicable, miserable turn.
In 2006, the former attorney should have been spending time with his wife and five children at his home in Poughkeepsie, NY. Instead, Colliton was arrested by detectives after being discovered alone in a Canadian hotel room with ID that read “James Sullivan.”
It marked the end to a pretty horrendous sequence of events. In the summer of 200, Colliton paid a 15 year old girl for regular sex with the permission of the girls’ mother. The arrangement continued through 2004. The mother, who was serving as the daughter’s pimp, would keep half of the money.
In 2004, the girl’s 13 year old sister, on direction from her mother, moved into Colliton’s New York apartment where he paid for sex with the underage girl. In 2006, the girl eventually told a case worker what was happening and the girls were removed from the mother’s home.
Colliton allegedly told the girls that he wife was dying of cancer and that he would have lots of money after she died (nice guy, huh?). He gave the girls cell phones so that he could meet them at his convenience; investigators in the case found numerous cell phones at his apartment which made them believe that other victims may have been involved. The girl who reported the abuse claims that as many as 10 other girls frequented Colliton’s New York apartment.
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