Disbarred Attorney Sues AmEx For His Arrest
Posted on Tuesday, 22 of July , 2008 at 5:16 pm
NEW YORK—A disbarred Manhattan attorney, convicted of statutory rape, has sued the American Express Company for giving police credit card information which he says led to his capture.
James P. Colliton, 44, of Poughkeepsie, formerly associated with the prestigious law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore of Manhattan, was originally indicted on a 43 counts charging him with third degree rape, third degree sodomy and patronizing a prostitute.
He fled to Canada but was finally apprehended in February 2006 in a East Village hotel.
The mother of two teenage daughters allowed the girls, aged 13 and 15 at the time, to have sex with Colliton in exchange for payment of the mother’s living expenses. The mother pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in a plea deal.
Colliton is now claiming that AmEx violated its agreement to withhold customer information from third parties.
Prosecutors said that in the summer of 2000, Collition, then 38, began paying a 15-year-old girl to engage in sexual acts with him. Colliton was arrested in East Village in 2006. He had been arrested days earlier in Toronto, Canada but released
for unknown reasons.
When arrested in New York, he was carrying nearly $10,000 in cash, $2,100 in American Express gift cards, cell phones, a “purple multispeed stimulator” and a bottle of Spanish fly.
He was sentenced to three one year jail terms but was released as he had already served 19 months waiting for the case disposition. 7-22-08
Category: Business, Courts, Crime
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