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Tawana Brawley Finally Forced to Pay Man She Defamed
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Posted on 08/05/2013 6:53:24 AM PDT by chessplayer

In an exclusive to the New York Post, the paper reported Sunday that after 25 years, former New York prosecutor Steven Pagones is finally getting justice from Tawana Brawley.

The Post reports that Pagones recently received his first payments from Brawley as money is being collected through wage garnishments: $3,764.61 so far, with $431,000 to go. In 1987, Brawley, with the promotional assistance of Rev. Al Sharpton and lawyers C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox, defamed Pagones in the infamous race-baiting fake rape case that grabbed headlines around the world.

As Breitbart News has previously recalled, in November 1987, fifteen year-old black teenager Tawana Brawley was found in Wappinger's Falls, NY wrapped in a plastic bag, with feces in her hair and with "KKK" and the n-word written on her body. She claimed to have been abducted, then raped and sodomized by six white men. She quickly gained a set of advisors headed by Al Sharpton along with attorneys Mason and Maddox, fresh off a round of racially charged publicity in the Howard Beach incident.

Celebrities lined up to support Tawana, including Bill Cosby, who posted a $25,000 reward for information on the case;

Sharpton had his settlement debt to Pagones paid by supporters, including O.J. Simpson attorney Johnnie Cochran. MSNBC host and Obama ally Sharpton is still unrepentant about the Brawley incident and refuses to even say that Brawley was lying, instead claiming in a recent interview: "Whatever happened, you're dealing with a minor who was missing for four days, so it's clear that something wrong happened."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brawley; fraud; hatecrimehoax; hoax; sharpton; tawanabrawley
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1 posted on 08/05/2013 6:53:24 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
RE :”Celebrities lined up to support Tawana, including Bill Cosby, who posted a $25,000 reward for information on the case;”

There ya go.

2 posted on 08/05/2013 6:55:38 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: chessplayer

Think Al is going to chip in? I think not.


3 posted on 08/05/2013 6:56:26 AM PDT by AU72
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To: chessplayer

Just one of them I believe. I think she owes more money to other people.


4 posted on 08/05/2013 6:56:39 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: chessplayer

Notice how Rev Al Tawannas pal isn’t helping to raise the cash.


5 posted on 08/05/2013 6:59:15 AM PDT by amnestynone
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To: chessplayer
Assuming that these garnishments just recently began I'd bet ten bucks that Tawana...sorry,Fatima Abdul Jihad (she became a moslem years ago)...somehow experiences a catastrophic back injury,is deemed by some quack chiropractor to be unable to work,winds up on SSDI and from that moment on her “wages” cannot be garnished.
6 posted on 08/05/2013 7:00:06 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: chessplayer

paybacks are hell


7 posted on 08/05/2013 7:00:45 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: sickoflibs
including Bill Cosby, who posted a $25,000 reward

Maybe Cosby could kick in an inflation adjusted $25k (about $50K) to help Brawley out.

8 posted on 08/05/2013 7:04:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: amnestynone

Notice how Rev Al Tawannas pal isn’t helping to raise the cash.


Of course not. Her usefulness to the race baiter is over.


9 posted on 08/05/2013 7:05:07 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

If Tawana Brawley were an isolated incident, one could almost say that sharpton was gullible and sincerely believed her story and wanted to help.

But then there was Freddy’s Fashion Mart, The Duke Lacrosse case, Crown Heights, and, of Course, Trayvon Martin.

So it is a pattern of behavior.

The REAL criminal here is sharpton.


10 posted on 08/05/2013 7:05:17 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Wouldn’t doubt it. Some excuse will be found not to pay them.


11 posted on 08/05/2013 7:06:13 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: from occupied ga

Same thought here.


12 posted on 08/05/2013 7:06:46 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US Citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: left that other site

Won’t be surprised to see cash magically appear if she decides to come clean about “Rev” Al.


13 posted on 08/05/2013 7:08:17 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Gay State Conservative
“Quack chiropractor...” ?
14 posted on 08/05/2013 7:08:40 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: bigbob

No Doubt.


15 posted on 08/05/2013 7:08:57 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
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To: chessplayer

Tawana Brawley can avoid paying the defamation money by doing one very simple thing — TELL THE TRUTH.

That’s *ALL* Steven Pagones wants.

Yet, she refuses to do it.


16 posted on 08/05/2013 7:09:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Quack chiropractor...” ?

Yup,quack chiropractor.All of them are quacks.

17 posted on 08/05/2013 7:12:42 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I was going to say; name one who is not.


18 posted on 08/05/2013 7:13:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I was going to say; name one who is not.

Precisely

19 posted on 08/05/2013 7:25:19 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks; Gay State Conservative

Name one? OK.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Reese

Near the end of his life, Reese was asked if there were any other people practicing his skills.
He mentioned the family in New England (the Sweet family)
and
the man in Iowa (Palmer - in Davenport).

Since I’m a nice guy, here’s another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVYQmJMqxbs&feature=relmfu


20 posted on 08/05/2013 7:25:47 AM PDT by spankalib ("I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.")
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