From Wikipedia: On November 28, 1987, Tawana Brawley, who had been missing for four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, New York, was found seemingly unconscious and unresponsive, lying in a garbage bag several feet from an apartment where she had once lived. Her clothing was torn and burned, her body smeared with feces. She was taken to the emergency room, where the words "KKK", "Nigger", and "Bitch" were discovered written on her torso with a black substance described as charcoal.
That occurred in 1987 when Brawley was 15. She claimed that she had been raped and tortured by six white law enforcement officers. Attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason and an obscure black preacher, Al Sharpton, immediately seized upon the allegations by worming their way into becoming Brawley’s advisors. As such they fueled a media blitz that inflamed racial passions and brought fame to Sharpton. Popping up on every street corner and all over television, Sharpton demanded justice for a young black girl who had been horribly brutalized by a group of white racist cops. And the rabble-rouser has been at it ever since.
After a long and thorough investigation, a grand jury determined the whole alleged episode was a hoax. One of the accused, former county prosecutor Steven Pagones, won a defamation lawsuit against Brawley and her three unscrupulous advisors. Sharpton was ordered to pay Pagones the paltry sum of $65,000. When Sharpton refused to pay the judgment, it was paid for him by Johnnie Cochran (one of accused murderer O.J. Simpson’s attorneys) and businessman Earl G. Graves, Jr.
TAWANA BRAWLEY BEGINS MAKING DEFAMATION PAYMENTS
Associated Press
August 4, 2013
A black woman who set off a racial firestorm after claiming she was raped by a gang of white law enforcement officials in 1987 has begun making defamation payments to a man she falsely accused.
Tawana Brawley was 15 when she reported being raped in New York. A grand jury concluded Brawley's story was a hoax.
The New York Post reports Brawley has paid just over $3,700 to former county prosecutor Steven Pagones. Pagones won a claim against her and her advisers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, after he was named as an attacker.
Brawley was initially ordered to pay $190,000 but now owes more than $400,000 with interest.
She now lives in Virginia and works as a nurse. Her parents have insisted Brawley's claim of being raped was true.
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