Richard Caputo
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| Richard Caputo | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #4 |
| Station: | Wilkes-Barre, PA |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 11/12/1997 - 03/30/2009 |
| Senior: | 03/31/2009 - Current |
| Preceded by: | Richard Conaboy |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1938 |
| Home State: | Portchester, NY |
| Bachelors: | Brown, A.B., 1960 |
| Law School: | U. of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B., 1963 |
| Military service: | U.S. Air Force 1964 - 1967 |
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A. Richard Caputo is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He joined the court in 1997 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. He is serving on senior status.
Early life and education
A native of Pennsylvania, Caputo graduated from Brown University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1960 and later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with his Law Degree in 1963. Caputo also served in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps from 1964 to 1967. [1]
Professional career
Caputo served as a a private practice attorney licensed in the State of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1964 and 1968 to 1997. Also, Caputo served as a Assistant public defender Luzerne County in 1968. [1]
Judicial career
Middle District of Pennsylvania
Caputo was nominated by President Bill Clinton on July 31, 1997, to a seat vacated by Richard Conaboy as Conaboy assumed senior status. Caputo was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 9, 1997 on a senate vote and received commission on November 12, 1997. [1]
Notable cases
Juvenile records case
Judge Caputo is presiding in a case involving juvenile offenders attempting to recover damages from former Common Pleas judge Mark Ciavarella. Civarella, in 2009, pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges as the judge profited from a juvenile detention center that he had a stake in[2].
District judge theft
On November 24, 2009, Judge Caputo sentenced former District Judge Karen Holly to thirty days in a halfway house for stealing $6,000 from a sanitary authority from 2002 to 2003. Holly is a former Luzerne County judge and was the third former judge to face corruption charges in 2009 in a federal court[3].
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Richard Conaboy | Middle District of Pennsylvania 1997–2009 Seat #4 | Succeeded by: ' |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
