Tawana Brawley Was Served With Court Order To Pay Man She Falsely Accused Of Rape
Love this -- story from January that I missed when it came out and just spotted in a Jonathan Turley blog item. Chuck Bennett wrote in The New York Post that the paper helped falsely accused former Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones track down Brawley, from whom he won a $190,000 defamation award more than a decade ago:
"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.
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.
..."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.
I'm with Turley:
I must confess that I have little sympathy for Brawley or the others. I feel sorry for 28-year-old Fishkill Police Officer Harry Crist Jr., who committed suicide a week after the false charges were made against him, as well as the rest of these men who were demonized in the relentless press conferences and marches by Sharpton and others.
Brawley just started paying, reports Fox News (on August 4):
A quarter-century after her name made national headlines and became infamous, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for making a false rape charge against a former New York prosecutor.Paying $627 per month, to be exact.
The New York Post reports that last week a judge in Virginia, where Brawley now lives under various assumed names and works as a nurse, ordered $3,764.61 garnished from six months' worth of Brawley's wages and paid to Steven Pagones.
But that's far from the end of it, as the paper reports Brawley owes $431,000 more.
The payments are the latest chapter in a saga that began in November 1987, when Brawley, then 15 years old, was found in a trash bag with racial slurs written on her in feces. She told police that six white men had abducted, brutalized, and raped her for four days. Her handlers, including a relatively unknown minister named Al Sharpton, accused Pagones, then a prosecutor in Dutchess County, New York, of being one of Brawley's attackers. A grand jury concluded that Brawleys story was a hoax the following year.
From the earlier Post piece about slimy Sharpton:
Sharpton was ordered to pony up $66,000, money that was coughed up by O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and others.
Oh, boy. You had to bring this up again, didn't you? Here come the mutants.
That aside, I'm glad they finally caught up with the lying skank and that she's being forced to cough up what she owes. That 627 dollars a week has to hurt, considering she's living on a nurse's salary.
Still, it doesn't even begin to pay for her crimes. She pushed an innocent person to suicide...which might prompt a discussion as to how we deal with those accused of sex crimes.
Worse, she propelled Al Sharpton into the mainstream. There is no punishment great enough for the crime of inflicting Al Sharpton onto the American people.
Patrick at August 5, 2013 4:50 AM
The fact that Al Sharpton is a highly respected spokesman for the Democratic Party is all you need to know about how far that party has fallen.
DrMaturin at August 5, 2013 5:28 AM
False accusations should come with felony prison terms.
MarkD at August 5, 2013 5:29 AM
What Patrick said!
Flynne at August 5, 2013 6:45 AM
Anyone expect an apology or some sort of statement regarding this from Sharpton?
Anyone at all?
Yeah. Me neither. Once again proving that it's never about "justice" so much as it is about black entitlement.
Sabrina at August 5, 2013 8:00 AM
It gets worse.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/05/13/Fundraiser-attendees-give-money-to-gang-rape-hoaxer-Tawana-Brawley/UPI-39691368477764/
Brawley was celebrated at a fundraiser in New Jersey.
Conan the Grammarian at August 5, 2013 8:36 AM
Am I still the only person who loved the film "Bonfire of the Vanities"? Reverend Bacon (based on Al Sharpton) was great.
Eric at August 5, 2013 8:43 AM
@Eric,
Yes, you are the only one. But the book was terrific.
DrMaturin at August 5, 2013 9:16 AM
seems like being a licensed Nurse under falsified identity might be a felony, no? At the least she'll prolly lose that job. I wonder if her boyfriend and her kid know about her past...
SwissArmyD at August 5, 2013 9:32 AM
Are you fucking kidding, Conan!?!?! They did what!?
Sabrina at August 5, 2013 10:03 AM
Where did you get the idea that she was committing a felony? You're allowed to change your name, you know.
Patrick at August 5, 2013 10:19 AM
Yes, but the article never said she legally changed her name, it said she was living under an assumed name.
That it the kind of language one uses when the assumed identity is no legal
lujlp at August 5, 2013 10:27 AM
Conan's sharing of the Brawley fundraiser has certain relevance in light of the recent pillorying of George Zimmerman. There is an uncomfortable number of people who automatically assume that a minority making an accusation is in the right. Not that there's anything wrong with giving apparent victims the benefit of the doubt; the problem arises when the evidence all but proves that these accusers have been lying, their supporters cannot be convinced.
Lorena Bobbitt, charged with malicious wounding, found instant support. However, when the evidence of spousal abuse that John Wayne Bobbitt had supposedly perpetrated was not forthcoming, her supporters, rather than realizing they'd been duped, pointed their fingers at a corrupt justice system. And that innocent little victim Lorena went on to attack her mother with an axe.
Patrick at August 5, 2013 10:29 AM
Any word from the Obamas on whether she looks like Michelle/their kids/coulda been their kids/woulda like to have used her as a poster child?
Nothin'?
That's odd.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 5, 2013 12:05 PM
At that payment rate, it will take over 57 years to pay it off, if assumed 0 interest from now on.
People legally changing their names are findable by the system. It does not take decades to find them. Creating false identities however...
Joe J at August 5, 2013 2:20 PM
Joe, I think the principle of the thing is relevant here. It would suit me just fine if Tawana had a 25% bite of her paycheck for the rest of her life, for the lying bitch that she is.
Because somehow, she just doesn't strike me as terribly remorseful, and she doesn't give a rat's patoot about the innocent man her lies drove to suicide.
Patrick at August 5, 2013 2:31 PM
Ever wonder if your favorite TV or movie star has lost their mind?
Oprah compares Trayvon to Emmett Till.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 5, 2013 4:17 PM
Pagones said he might waive his entitled windfall -- if Brawley finally 'fesses up.
No ..... He didn't. Please say it's not true.
Some people need to learn when not to be nice.
Pirate Jo at August 5, 2013 4:48 PM
Gog; I don't think Oprah lost her mind - she lost her ratings when she pimped for Obama instead of her audiences' favorite, Hillary. Now she is simply trying, desperately, to get her ratings back.
Charles at August 5, 2013 4:52 PM
@Patrick,
And that innocent little victim Lorena went on to attack her mother with an axe.
Dang! I didn't know that, although I can't say it surprises me. When I've had the misfortune to date douchebags, I never married them - my solution was simply to dump them. I never thought it was a brilliant idea to run around wielding a knife, hacking people's bits off. Do you have your own newsfeed?
@Gog,
(i)Any word from the Obamas on whether she looks like Michelle/their kids/coulda been their kids/woulda like to have used her as a poster child?(/i)
Now that was just damn funny.
Pirate Jo at August 5, 2013 4:58 PM
@Charles,
(i)I don't think Oprah lost her mind - she lost her ratings when she pimped for Obama instead of her audiences' favorite, Hillary.(/i)
I miss the days when it was all about teaching girls how to read.
(sniff!)
It's just not the 80's anymore!
(sob!)
Pirate Jo at August 5, 2013 5:01 PM
My tags quit. Oh well, just like all my other minions.
Pirate Jo at August 5, 2013 5:01 PM
"just like all my other minions."
You have minions? Dammit. I want minions.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 6, 2013 12:14 AM
Does this woman have a job now that she has been outed for all that she did? If she can have a job, then so can the prof in your later post. But good to hear the exceptions to american sharia and women actually paying for their crimes
Redrajesh at August 6, 2013 2:15 AM
So if she quits her job and goes on welfare, can her welfare be garnished? I suspect the answer is no, but I don't really know.
Cousin Dave at August 6, 2013 8:04 AM
Minions suck, the second you close the tank, leave them alone, not actually witness them dying and just assume it all went to plan thats when the minions let your enemies escape from the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism.
Every. Time.
lujlp at August 6, 2013 11:46 AM
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