Duck and cover, Rev. Al.
Didn’t SHarpton lose a libel suit on this case?
—we still haven’t found Judge Crater , either——
Of course it has to be re-opened.
This time Al Sharpton will PROVE it was racism that resulted in the case being lost and him being acused of libel.......he has the lessons of Imus behind him now.
You have to be kidding me. It even sounds like the girl has moved on and made a life. Someone have an idea what the point of this would be?
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Yep, to Maryam Muhammed (anyone surprised?)
these people have no sense of shame.
no government official is going to reopen this case.
they destroyed to career and personal life of steven pagones.
This is too random and contrived. The dems are doing this too activat their base to the polls. This “story” was deemed a lie 20 years ago.
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I wonder if Elliot Spitzer is crazy enough to reopen this flagrant fraud? And how crazy are these parents?
Sharpton lost a libel suit for his part in the hoax. For years he his all assets.
I wonder if Elliot Spitzer is crazy enough to reopen this flagrant fraud? And how crazy are these parents?
Sharpton lost a libel suit for his part in the hoax. For years he hid his all assets.
Well they have had 20 years to get their story straight this time around.
Delusion springs eternal in the human breast.
I’ll bet even Tawana wants her mother to shut up about it. Tawana knows very well that she didn’t get molested, much less raped, but she told the lie to her parents for so long that now Mom and Stepdad believe it and can’t let go. What a tangled web we weave . . .
“How could we make this up and take down the state of New York? We’re just regular people,” Glenda Brawley said to her husband. “We should be millionaires.”
(snip)
Brawley, now 35, rarely emerges from her self-imposed exile these days, returning to New York only as a guest of the United African Movement, established by Sharpton and her lawyers to lend her name to civil rights cases. She accepts free flights and limousine rides from the group to merely appear at its events.
Brawley’s family said she does not wear a hijab, or head scarf, but is a devout Muslim, a conversion that began during the trial when Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan gave her the name Maryam Muhammad.
Her parents, who are Christians, said she can call any mosque in the world and will be provided with security, if her advisers from New York or her specially trained dog cannot protect her.
(snip)
Two things. First, the involved parties must be in need of cash.
Second, if Brawley is now a muzzl’em, she should be stoned to death or lashed to death for being raped. Whoever raped her should be told not to do that again for a while.
Truth measured in $$$$$
She wants a "do-over"!
Does this remind anyone else of AlphaGore's attempt to FORCE the presidency?
...fish rots from the head down...and all that...
Good luck reopening that can of worms. Any prosecutor that would touch that case has rocks in his head the size of Gibraltar. A bunch of people wound up under the wheels of the bus on that one. Sharpton and an couple of his buddies lost a defamation case on that little caper.
Yeah, 20 years later we’re going to get the truth alright. Jes. If you can’t convince a grand jury, it’s done, for good.
So does that mean Brawley & Sharpton could actually be prosecuted this time?
Hopefully Spitzer will accomodate these nuts.
It must be jealousy over all the attention the nappy headed ho in Durham got.....
Plus — the ignorant parents must think that they have a Governor and State Attorney General STUPID enough to go to bat for their skanky whore of a daughter....
I’m betting they’re RIGHT.
In a sane world, Tawana Brawley would still be in jail for her false rape charges..
I’m getting more than tired of lying black skanks and their “victim to profit” bullshit.
I guess Tawana’s parents didn’t save any money for their retirement?
“Brawley has changed her name and become a nurse”
Hopefully I will come under the care of a nurse who is that nuts. Also, I would bet the Brawley’s had the mindset that they are “owed” even before Tawana was born.
Oh, good god!
Has a noose mysteriously turned up?
This is the kind of story that libs try to avoid talking about. For your Sunday morning amusement, I found one entry at Dummieland, with only 4 responses.....and two of them implied it was a Republican backed move. The name Willy Horton was brought up. LOL!
They think times are better for this kind of hustle and in general they are right, but this one is so over the top they won't make it. OJ finds the drug dealers who murdered Ron and Nicole first!
Al didn't respond to the e-mail nor did he respond to the $65,000 judgement. Pagones should go Fred Goldman on Sharpton and follow him around demanding his money.
In fifteen years, Sandy “Pants” Burglar will have his archive document case reopened and they will find that he was acting in the cause of national defense when he stole and destroyed the documents, and they will present him a Congressional Medal of Honor.
What, 20 years later and Mom and Dad STILL aren’t married?
Brawley later converted to Islam and changed her name to Maryam Muhammad
Tawana Brawley controversy
On November 28, 1987, Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl, was found smeared with feces, lying in a garbage bag, her clothing torn and burned and with various slurs and epithets written on her body in charcoal. Brawley claimed she had been assaulted and raped by six white men, some of them police officers, in the village of Wappingers Falls, New York.
Attorneys Alton H. Maddox and C. Vernon Mason joined Sharpton in support of Brawley. A grand jury was convened; after seven months of examining police and medical records, the jury determined that Brawley had fabricated her story. Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason accused the Dutchess County prosecutor, Steven Pagones, of racism and of being one of the perpetrators of the alleged abduction and rape. The three were successfully sued for slander and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages, the jury finding Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two, and Mason for one.
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Tawana claimed she had been repeatedly raped by a group of white men but could provide no names or descriptions of her assailants. She later told others that there had been no rape, only other kinds of sexual abuse. Forensic tests found no evidence that a sexual assault of any kind had occurred. Nor was there any evidence of exposure to elements, which would be expected in a victim held for several days in the woods at a time when the temperature dropped below freezing at night.
There were other discrepancies in Tawana’s story. On the morning after the alleged abduction, she was seen entering the empty apartment at Pavillion where she had once lived. Other witnesses claimed to have seen her at parties in a nearby town during the period when she was “missing.” She had no bruises, contusions, scratches or other injuries except for a small bruise behind the left ear, which was determined to be several days old. One witness claimed to have seen her climb into the garbage bag in which she was found. Her mother, Glenda Brawley, was spotted at the apartment complex shortly before Tawana was seen getting into the garbage bag; the mother waited until that same afternoon to report Tawana’s “disappearance” to the police. The investigation turned up evidence to indicate that the damage done to Tawana’s clothing had occurred in the apartment. According to the grand jury report, all of “the items and instrumentalities necessary to create the condition in which Tawana Brawley appeared on Saturday, November 28, were present inside of or in the immediate vicinity of Apartment 19A.” The feces had come from a neighbor’s dog.
Grand jury hearings
On October 6, 1988, the Abrams Grand Jury released its extensive and thorough 170-page report concluding Tawana Brawley had not been abducted, assaulted, raped and sodomized as had been claimed by Brawley and her advisors. The report further concluded that the “unsworn public allegations against Dutchess County Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones” were false and had no basis in fact. To issue the report, the Grand Jury heard from 180 witnesses, saw 250 exhibits and recorded more than 6,000 pages of testimony. [3]
In the decision, the grand jury noted many problems with Brawley’s story. Among these were the results of the rape kit, which did not indicate sexual assault. Also, despite her claim of having been held captive for days, Brawley was not suffering from exposure, was well nourished, and appeared to have brushed her teeth recently. There were no burns on her body, despite her clothing being charred. A shoe she was wearing was cut through, yet she had sustained no injuries to her foot. The racial epithets written on her were upside-down, which led to suspicion that Brawley herself wrote the words. Testimony from her schoolmates indicated she had attended a local party during the time of her supposed abduction, and one witness claimed to have observed Brawley climbing into the garbage bag. [4]
A total of 180 witnesses were called during the hearings. Brawley herself never testified.
Aftermath
Brawley and her mother were issued subpoenas to appear in front of the grand jury but refused to testify. This may have prompted Brawley and her family to move hastily to Virginia, taking with them a “defense fund” of $300,000 which had been contributed by well-wishers. There remains an outstanding warrant in New York against the two for ignoring the subpoena.
The case still hangs over Sharpton, particularly following his entry into mainstream politics (in his race for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination, he addressed the nominating convention from its podium), not merely because he defended Brawley’s story well after its veracity came into question but for the unfounded accusations he leveled, and, according to some of his critics, his “playing the race card.”
Alton Maddox was disbarred by the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on May 21, 1990, after failing to appear before a disciplinary hearing to answer allegations regarding his conduct in the Brawley case.[6] Brawley later converted to Islam and changed her name to Maryam Muhammad. [7]
In 1998, Pagones was awarded $345,000 (he sought $150 million) through a lawsuit for defamation of character that he had brought against Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason, in which the jury found Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two and Mason for one. The jury deadlocked on four of the 22 statements over which Pagones had sued, and eight statements were found non-defamatory. [8]
Pagones had also sued Brawley. She defaulted by not appearing at the trial, and the judge ordered her to pay him damages of $185,000. As of 2003, none of the award had been paid.
*snicker*
FWIW, rape of black women by white men is almost the least common crime in the book. Way under 100 per year, if I remember the numbers rightly.
Meanwhile, rape of white women by black men is up in the tens of thousands per year.
Did Guiliana have any roll in this? Was he the US Attorney at the time. How would they gain anything by doing this?
According to the article below in the Daily News, it says she goes by the name Tawana Thompson and is a nurse like her mother. From what I found, the mom is a nurses aide and Tawana Thompson is a Practical Nurse.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html
https://secure01.virginiainteractive.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi
https://secure01.virginiainteractive.org/dhp/cgi-bin/search_publicdb.cgi
Oops! The last two only work if the info is supplied. I copied the URL with the info gathered, but it didn’t work. Sorry.
“Brawley - whose claims of being raped by a “white cop” shocked the city 20 years ago - has long since turned her back on New York. She changed her name, converted to Islam, moved south and got a bullmastiff “trained to bite” in case someone unwanted comes to visit.”
“Like her mother, she works as a nurse. Co-workers at the nursing home that employs her know her by the name listed on her nursing license, Tawana Thompson.”
“Brawley is not married, her parents say. And 20 years after camera flashes burned her eyes daily, family and friends still know not to take her photo.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_20_years_later_tawana_brawley_has_turned.html
Sounds like somebody heard about all the money being showered on the “Jena 6”.
>>>New York state owes my daughter<<<
Ah, yes, the distressed voice of endless entitlement. They “owe” her daughter. By “New York,” of course, the family means everyone with money.
You know, if there was slightest shred of real evidence that Tawana Brawley was raped and abused, I’d be in her corner fighting for justice. However, the real evidence points to the whole incident being lies, which means, ironically enough, that those who are lied about recieved the equivalent of rape and abuse from Tawana. I’d change my name, too. Scary to think that she’s a nurse somewhere, though.
Glenda Brawley Moves To a Brooklyn Church
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Published: June 11, 1988
LEAD: Glenda Brawley, who took refuge in a Queens church Wednesday to avoid arrest by Dutchess County authorities, moved to a Brooklyn church yesterday.
Glenda Brawley, who took refuge in a Queens church Wednesday to avoid arrest by Dutchess County authorities, moved to a Brooklyn church yesterday.
On Monday, Mrs. Brawley was found in contempt of court for refusing to testify before a special grand jury in Poughkeepsie that is investigating an assertion that her daughter, Tawana, was abducted and raped by a gang of white men last November. Mrs. Brawley was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $250, the maximum penalty. snip
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5DD1530F932A25755C0A96E948260
I’m curious as to the underlying motive for reopening this case after 20 years and the lawsuits.
Oh God! Not again! This is 20 years ago! I read that Tawana Brawley’s parents have an outstanding warrant for ignoring the subpoena.
It took them 20 years to bring this up? Losers.