‘Infamous
hoaxster Tawana Brawley — whose outrageous rape lie 25 years ago inflamed racial
tensions nationwide — yesterday was finally slapped with a court order to
settle a hefty defamation case against her. “For
at least 25 years, she has been living a major lie,” said former Dutchess
County prosecutor Steven Pagones, who was falsely accused of raping Brawley in
1987 and finally tracked her down, thanks to The Post. “To
me, this has always been about responsibility and accountability,’’ added the
former ADA, who won the $190,000 defamation lawsuit against Brawley, 40, now a
nurse in Virginia, more than a decade ago. EXPOSED: Tawana Brawley had been living in hiding in
Virginia until The Post tracked her down. At
9 percent interest, that debt, which Brawley never attempted to pay off, now
totals $431,492, according to the wage-garnishment papers filed in Virginia’s
Surry County Court. Brawley
— whose unbelievable lies made the Rev. Al Sharpton a household name as he
bombastically championed her cause — had changed her name and moved down South
in the years since she was exposed. Her
fugitive-like antics long thwarted Pagones’ efforts to serve her with the court
papers needed to get the financial damages due him. But
The Post finally found Brawley last month, effectively leading Pagones and his
lawyer to her. She
was living under the assumed name of Tawana Vacenia Thompson Gutierrez in
Hopewell, Va., and working as a licensed nurse at The Laurels of Bon Air, a nursing
home in nearby Richmond. According
to Pagones’ lawyer, Garry Bolnick, the single mom’s wages could be docked 10 to
25 percent per paycheck as retribution for her lies. Pagones
said he might waive his entitled windfall — if Brawley finally ’fesses up. “There
is a feeling of unfinished business to it,” he said of the case that ended his
career and cost him his marriage. “I look at this as another opportunity for
her to tell the truth. “People
criticize me for going after a hardworking single mother trying to support
herself and child. My argument has been she has not been held accountable. “If
she is not going to tell the truth, then it is about the money. That is the
only way to hold her accountable,” said Pagones, who is now principal owner of
a private investigations firm. But
Pagones said he wonders if Sharpton will again try to rush to her aid and bail
her out. “I’ve
got to believe since he is primarily responsible for all the damage done, I
would think he would come to her aid. That’s what I expect,” Pagones said. Seemingly
a lifetime ago, a 15-year-old Brawley of Wappingers Falls in Dutchess County
was found in a trash bag covered in feces with the words “n- - - -r” and
“bitch” scrawled upside down on her body and “KKK” carved into her shoe. Sharpton,
still relatively unknown outside New York City, and lawyers Alton Maddox and C.
Vernon Mason, immediately took up her cause as she claimed she was attacked by
a gang of white men, including Pagones. When
28-year-old Fishkill Police Officer Harry Crist Jr., committed suicide a week
later — likely over a romantic breakup and failing the New York State Police
exam — Sharpton and his allies used the incident to accuse Crist of
participating in the rape. When
Pagones, a friend of Crist, offered an alibi for his besmirched dead friend, he
found himself accused of raping Brawley nearly three dozen times. After
a year of hell, a grand jury found Brawley’s accusations without any merit. She
likely fabricated the story because she feared her stepfather’s wrath for
staying out late, according to the grand-jury evidence. “This
has been on my mind every time Sharpton has been in the news,” Pagones said of
the case. “I
am reminded of the damage Tawana Brawley, Sharpton, Mason and Maddox caused.
It’s something I live with all the time.” In
1997, Pagones won a defamation lawsuit against Sharpton, Brawley and her
lawyers. Maddox
was found liable for $97,000, Mason for $188,000, and Sharpton was ordered to
pony up $66,000, money that was coughed up by O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie
Cochran and others.’ Additional reporting by Amber Sutherland, Reuven Fenton and
Michael Gartland 
$LAP:
Tawana Brawley served with court order to pay man she accused of rape in
1987...
Tawana Brawley served with court
order to pay man she accused of rape in 1987
Rape-hoax $lap
By
CHUCK BENNETT
Last
Updated: 5:33 AM, January 31, 2013
Posted:
1:41 AM, January 31, 2013
Black ape covered in s**t, with the word "nigger" written
on her. One of the few times in history the black apes got anything right,
figuratively and literally.
These the words of the
"jive-talking" criminal black apes in their attempt to perpetrate a
fraud on the public and damage the police/prosecutor; put them on the defensive
so they would be less effective in their pursuit and prosecution of the crimes
of the criminal black apes (their "lifestyle"). Amazingly (but not
surprising in la) , their "strategy", with
the help of the typically corrupt D.O.J., corrupt fed courts, and the corrupt
criminal and "first black president" (as he is often referred to)
hillbilly
In 1987, black teenager Tawana Brawley claimed that six white law enforcement
officers abducted and raped her. Those claims and others that her attackers had
scrawled racial insults on her body and smeared her with feces were declared a
hoax by a grand jury that also exonerated the man at the center of the
accusations, then-assistant district attorney Steven Pagones.
Pagones was named
as one of the attackers by Miss Brawley's advisers: Maddox, the Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyer C.
But the grand jury within a year
announced the story was a hoax and specifically cleared a Fishkill police
officer and Pagones.
6-22-04:
"Reverend" Ape Sharpton Ruminating and
Expressing To The Media His Longing For the
Scandal-Scarred, Squandered Criminal