Monday, August 5, 2013

Pay-up time for Brawley: '87 rape-hoaxer finally shells out for slander

08/05/13

Just $431,000 to go

OUTRAGE: Tawana Brawley attends an Atlanta rally
with Al Sharpton in 1988, three months before a jury
would rule that her rape tale was a hoax. She had
been lying low until The Post last December
found her living in Virginia.
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.


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