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On 6 August 1930 New York Supreme Court judge Joseph Crater disappeared amid rumors that he had been accepting bribes and was involved in a series of shady financial manipulations. The scandal that resulted forced New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt to ask the appellate division of the state court to conduct an investigation of New York City's magistrate courts. The appellate division, with the governor's blessing, asked Samuel Seabury to conduct the official inquiry.
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