Justice for Sale (eBook)

Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

Gary Stein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
448 Seiten
Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-7257-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research. More than just a biography, Justice for Sale examines Manton's misconduct in the context of the culture of corruption and organized crime that permeated New York City in the first part of the twentieth century. Dozens of othersprominent business executives, leading Wall Street lawyers, accountants, bankers, fixers, con men, another federal judgeparticipated in Manton's crimes. The book profiles these unscrupulous and often colorful characters as well. It wasn't until Manhattan D.A. and future presidential candidate Thomas Dewey's successful pursuit of Manton, a federal grand jury investigation, and a sensational prosecution and trial in federal court that shocked the nation that Manton and his corrupt schemes were finally brought down.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 29 Illustrations including: - 29 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1930s new York • 1940s New York • American federal system • American History • American Tobacco • Augustus Noble Hand • bail bond • bankrupticies • becoming a lawyer • bribery • Car parts cases • Charles Burlingham • Chicken egg incubator • Cigarette lighter case • Corruption • criminal justice • electric razor case • federal judges • federal judiciary • Forest Hills Terrace • Fort Greene Bank • Harrie Chase • James Sullivan • J Edgar Hoover • Jimmy Hines • Jimmy Walker • Joe Crater • John Cahill • John L Lotsch • Learned Hand • Louis Levy • Manton and FDR • Manton and Mob • Manton Federal Investigation • Manton trial • Milton Weisman • Organized Crime • Payoffs • Prohibition • racketeering • Roaring Twenties • S Burton Heath • Second Circuit • Subway Fare Case • tammany hall • Thomas Chadbourne • Thomas Dewey • Thomas Swan • US courts • US Supreme Court • W Calvin Chesnut • William Fallon • youngest federal judge
• ISBN-10: 1-4930-7257-9 / 1493072579
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4930-7257-6 / 9781493072576