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Former Cravath Associate Pleads Guilty in Underage Sex Scandal
New York Law Journal
October 04, 2007
A former Cravath, Swaine & Moore associate has pleaded guilty to rape charges stemming from his sexual relationships with three underage girls.
James P. Colliton pleaded guilty to second- and third-degree rape felony charges as well as one count of patronizing a prostitute and agreed to one-year prison sentences on each charge, to be served concurrently. He also agreed to register as a sex offender.
Colliton, 43, has already served 19 months in prison and is expected to be released after his Oct. 11sentencing. At the time of his indictment last year, prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office alleged that Colliton, a former tax lawyer, paid the mother of a 15-year-old girl and her 13-year-old sister to have sex with the teens, allowing the latter to move into a midtown Manhattan apartment he maintained while living primarily in Poughkeepsie with his wife and five children. He also admitted to paying a third girl forsex.
Colliton was fired from Cravath when his conduct came to light, and he was briefly a fugitive before being arrested at a seedy East Village hotel.
As a convicted felon, Colliton is subject to automatic disbarment.
