There’s Always Something A Little Off With Tax Attorneys

A Cravath, Swaine and Moore* tax attorney is a fugitive from justice after having sexual relationships (technical term: “rape”) with two sisters — one as young as 13. Oh, and their mother apparently pimped them out:

A tax attorney for one of the country’s most prestigious law firms has gone into hiding as he faces monstrous pedophilia charges — alleging that for six years, he paid a mother for sex with her two underage daughters in his Midtown pied-a-terror.

The disgraced attorney — who has traveled as far as Toronto while dodging rape charges worth up to seven years’ prison — is James Patrick Colliton, recently fired from his position as associate partner at the 187-year-old firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore.

Colliton gave his 13- and 15-year-old victims money and cellphones so he could keep them at his beck and call as well as paying their mother, law-enforcement sources said. Investigators have turned up more unaccounted-for cellphones in Colliton’s name, and they’re now checking whether he gave those phones to still more young victims.

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The 41-year-old father of five from Poughkeepsie began his depraved relationship with the older sister in 2000, when she was 15, prosecutors said. She apparently “aged out” in 2004, when she turned 19. So Colliton paid the girl’s 13-year-old sister, prosecutors said.

The six years of weekly, no-holds-barred sex sessions took place in Colliton’s depraved lust nest at East 56th Street at Park Avenue, the indictment charges.

To make the story still more revolting, the two girls were being pimped out to Colliton by their own money-grabbing mother, 38, who is herself in custody on prostitution promotion charges, according to lead prosecutors Ann Donnelly and Rachel Hochhauser.

The police aren’t happy about this detail:

Police have been hunting for Colliton since Feb. 16, when he failed to turn himself in to Manhattan prosecutors, as he’d promised through his lawyer, prosecutors said.

Acting on a tip, cops with the Toronto fugitive squad arrested him, transferring custody on Tuesday to the United States.

According to an NYPD source, at 3:10 p.m. on Tuesday, cops told the Department of Homeland Security that computer records indicated Colliton was not a fugitive — but that they’d keep checking.

Then, at 3:28 p.m., the NYPD called back and told Homeland Security that they’d confirmed Colliton’s fugitive status through other means — only to learn that the feds had prematurely let him go.

A spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection said she could not comment.

*Suffice it to say, one of those firms where you can perform online searches for attorneys by which law school he or she attended.