Tawana Brawley has paid just over $3,700 to former county prosecutor Steven Pagones, the New York Post reported. Pagones won a claim against her and her advisers, including the Rev. Al Sharpton ...

Scandals Al Sharpton's interview scandal becomes latest in decades-long history of controversies haunting MSNBC host The liberal activist became a household name for boosting Tawana Brawley rape hoax ...

When it comes to Rev. Al Sharpton’s ‘day job,’ MSNBC has never shown a shred of interest in media ethics. Days after his Harris interview, Sharpton was in Michigan campaigning for her.

1987 – Becomes the spokesman for the family of Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager who claimed she was abducted and raped by a group of white men. When the case is later brought before a grand jury ...

In 1998, Steven Pagones, accused of raping Brawley, files a civil suit against Sharpton and others involved in the incident. A jury orders Sharpton to pay $65,000 for defamation.

He was general counsel of Mr. Sharpton’s civil rights group, the National Action Network, and defended him in a defamation suit arising from the Tawana Brawley case.

In 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley, with the advice of Sharpton and two lawyers, wrongly accused four white men, including New York prosecutor Steven Pagones, of abducting and ...

In 1987, Sharpton accused six white men, including upstate New York prosecutor Steven Pagones, of raping a black teenager, Tawana Brawley, smearing her with feces and leaving her wrapped in ...

Alton H. Maddox Jr., unrepentant to the end for his role in the 1980s Tawana Brawley kidnapping and rape hoax that inflamed racial hostilities in New York and beyond, a fraud that he helped ...

Alton Maddox, defense attorney in Tawana Brawley rape hoax, dies at 77 April 26, 2023 More than 2 years ago 7 min ...

A grand jury determined that Brawley's story was a hoax, and former prosecutor Steven Pagones sued Maddox, fellow attorney C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton for defamation for accusing him ...

Alton H. Maddox Jr. after a court hearing in Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1997 in the Tawana Brawley case. A grand jury later found that allegations of rape were fiction. Joyce Dopkeen/The New York Times ...