Tawana Brawley begins making payments 26 years after rape report

[HiPointDem]

38. i don't care. she was 15 when it happened, a minor. she should not be having to pay $185K,

let alone $400K. It's ridiculous. Pagones has already collected over a quarter of a million dollars for 'damages' (that he sued for 11 years after the fact) & tawana brawley's name is the punchline to a joke.

Pagones' name would have *never* become part of the circus but for the *adults* who got involved. Brawley was just a dumb kid.

meanwhile, al sharpton is a well-paid pundit & a supposed 'leader of the black community'.

enough already.


When civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton, with attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, began handling Brawley's publicity, the case quickly took on an explosive edge. At the height of the controversy in June 1988, a poll showed a gap of 34 percentage points between blacks (51%) and whites (85%) on the question of whether she was lying.[10]

Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason generated a national media sensation. The three claimed officials all the way up to the state government were trying to cover up defendants in the case because they were white. Specifically, they named Steven Pagones, an Assistant District Attorney in Dutchess County, as one of the rapists, and a racist, among other accusations.[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley