Justice for Sale: Graft, Greed, and a Crooked Federal Judge in 1930s Gotham

by Gary Stein

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493072560
• ISBN13: 9781493072569
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.5" x 8.6"