Post by JP5 on Aug 5, 2013 2:31:18 GMT
This story was huge news back then. I always wondered what happened. Good to know that justice is finally....at last....taking place for her slanderous lies.
And I did not know that the Rev. Al Sharpton has been paying for his slander on that case too. Good to know!!
Pay-up time for Brawley: '87 rape-hoaxer finally shells out for slander
Just $431,000 to go
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
Last Updated: 2:57 AM, August 4, 2013
Posted: 12:05 AM, August 4, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.
Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones — the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.
A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley’s wages as a nurse there.
She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.
“It’s a long time coming,” said Pagones, 52, who to this day is more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash.
“Every week, she’ll think of me,” he told The Post. “And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth.”
Brawley’s advisers in the infamous race-baiting case — the Rev. Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox — have already paid, or are paying, their defamation debt. But Brawley, 41, had eluded punishment.
She’s now forced to pay Pagones $627 each month, possibly for the rest of her life. Under Virginia law, she can appeal the wage garnishment every six months.
“Finally, she’s paying something,” said Pagones’ attorney, Gary Bolnick. “Symbolically, I think it’s very important — you can’t just do this stuff without consequences.”
www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pay_up_time_for_brawley_8q8M98zvpApS46BonCokvI
And I did not know that the Rev. Al Sharpton has been paying for his slander on that case too. Good to know!!
Pay-up time for Brawley: '87 rape-hoaxer finally shells out for slander
Just $431,000 to go
By MICHAEL GARTLAND
Last Updated: 2:57 AM, August 4, 2013
Posted: 12:05 AM, August 4, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.
Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones — the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.
A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley’s wages as a nurse there.
She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.
“It’s a long time coming,” said Pagones, 52, who to this day is more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash.
“Every week, she’ll think of me,” he told The Post. “And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth.”
Brawley’s advisers in the infamous race-baiting case — the Rev. Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox — have already paid, or are paying, their defamation debt. But Brawley, 41, had eluded punishment.
She’s now forced to pay Pagones $627 each month, possibly for the rest of her life. Under Virginia law, she can appeal the wage garnishment every six months.
“Finally, she’s paying something,” said Pagones’ attorney, Gary Bolnick. “Symbolically, I think it’s very important — you can’t just do this stuff without consequences.”
www.nypost.com/p/news/national/pay_up_time_for_brawley_8q8M98zvpApS46BonCokvI
