HE TRIED tHE wt officials in 1918.
It is pointed out that he was later conviced of bribery,as if that is relevant to tthe case (he suffered heavy losses during great depression.)
Judge MARTIN THOMAS MANTON
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Here are a few articles from TIME magazine about Judge Manton. --VM44
Kudos, Monday, Jun. 13, 1932
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743831,00.html
New York University
Martin Thomas Manton, senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...... LL.D.
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Borrowing Judge, Monday, Feb. 06, 1939
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771417,00.html
When he was appointed a U. S. District judge by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, Martin Thomas Manton of New York, 36, was the youngest Federal judge in the land. Wilson raised him to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals two years later, and he survived to become one of its senior members at 58.
Large, baldish and worldly, he was no ivory tower judge. He believed that social and economic phenomena "give life and substance to the law." Lawyers disliked his air of domineering omniscience, which seemed seldom justified by his understanding of their cases. And some lawyers worried about his off-bench business affairs which were known to be extensive and intricate.
Last week lawyers' dislikes and worries about Judge Manton were sharpened by articles in the crusading New York World-Telegram which guardedly suggested his impropriety in helping a business associate get a $250,000 loan with the aid of lawyer Louis S. Levy, onetime partner of the late, lusty Lawyer-Speculator Thomas L. Chadbourne, and hinted at a sinister deal six years ago between Judge Manton and the firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy in connection with the receivership proceedings of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (subway).
But the World-Telegram's stories proved to be only the prelude to a blasting letter from District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey to Chairman Hatton Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee (where impeachment proceedings start) on the subject of Judge Manton. Mr. Dewey reported that, after a year's investigation, his office had learned about "a number" of the Judge's acts, of which he listed six, including: > Acceptance by Judge Manton or his corporations of $77,000 from a go-between for the late Promoter Archie M. Andrews, whose Packard razor patent suit Judge Manton helped to decide in Andrews' favor. > Accepting $50,000 in loans from Harry M. Warner (to whom $40,000 has been repaid) whose motion picture company won a patent case with Judge Manton presiding. > Receiving personally or for business enterprises $232,900 out of $250,000 lent through Lawyer Louis S. Levy to Judge Manton's partner by Lord & Thomas (advertising) whose client (and Levy's) was American Tobacco Co., for whom Judge Manton wrote the winning opinion in a $10,000,000 stockholder suit.
At week's end, Chairman Sumners of the Judiciary Committee received a communication from the Department of Justice. It announced the resignation of Judge Martin T. Manton.
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Not a Pretty Story, Monday, Jun. 05, 1939
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,761412,00.html
Chief Justice White died in 1921. President Harding appointed ex-President Taft to fill the vacancy. Then Justice Clarke of Ohio retired. George Sutherland of Utah replaced him. Justice Day of Ohio retired soon after that. The Catholic Church, left without a member on the bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota was appointed instead of Martin Manton, who stayed on the bench of the mighty second Circuit Court of Appeals, became its irascible, domineering senior judge. He never reached the Supreme Court.
What Judge Martin Thomas Manton, now 58, did between 1922 and last winter, when he hurriedly resigned under fire, was told last week by witnesses testifying at his trial in Manhattan for conspiring to corrupt the administration of justice and allegedly accepting bribes of $186,146.* Tops among last week's three slush trials (see p. 18), it did not make a pretty story:
> Alfred F. Reilly, a cigaret lighter manufacturer, who had lost two patent case decisions in District Court, said he paid a total of $39,850 to the Judge's friend, William J. Fallen, who had already pleaded guilty to being Manton's "bag-man." During the payments Judge Manton reversed the unfavorable District Court decisions.
> Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed--one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler.
> Judge Manton, testimony indicated, sometimes acted as bagman himself. When John Lotsch got into trouble for accepting an earlier $200 bribe, he went to see Judge Manton. Lotsch said Judgi Manton fixed it up with District Judg3 Edwin Thomast all right--for $10,000. Judge Thomas acquitted John Lotsch.
> Judge Manton has owned or controlled twelve corporations. One of these was called National Cellulose Corp. Into National Cellulose went $47,000, put there by George M. Spector, confidential adviser to the late Speculator Archie M. Andrews. To George M. Spector, Archie Andrews gave $27,500. Archie Andrews' Dictograph Products Co. was appealing a patent case before Judge Manton at the time.
> In 1932 Judge Manton appointed Thomas E. Murray Jr. receiver for New York City's biggest subway, Interborough Rapid Transit--a procedure normally performed by inferior District Court judges. For this the U. S. Supreme Court criticized Circuit Court Judge Martin Manton and he withdrew from the I. R. T. case though Receiver Murray remained. Last week a U. S. Attorney revealed that Thomas E. Murray Jr. owned about 16% of the stock of Forest Hills Terrace Corp., another Manton enterprise.
* Judge Manton is not to be confused with County Judge George W. Martin, on trial in New York City last week for allegedly accepting a $1,000 bribe to quash an abortion indictment.
+ Who also resigned hurriedly last April, is now in a sanatorium (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.).
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Justice of the Week, Monday, Jun. 12, 1939
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,762377,00.html
> Martin Thomas Manton, 58, former senior judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan (TIME, June 5), was found guilty by a jury of "selling justice" to rich litigants and others for at least $235,600. Maximum penalty: two years in jail, $10,000 fine. He was not only the first Federal appellate court judge ever to be convicted, but the first ever to be tried for selling justice. More than 3,000 cases tried before him in 21 years may be reopened. He appealed.