Tawana Brawley’s defenders are demanding the state attorney general block the seizing of her wages — 25 years after she falsely accused a man of rape.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, disgraced lawyer Alton Maddox argues that Steven Pagones — the former prosecutor who successfully sued Brawley, Maddox, C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton for defamation in 1997 after Brawley falsely identified him as one of several men who assaulted her in 1987 — shouldn’t receive a cut of Brawley’s earnings from her nursing job.
“New York and Virginia have conspired to deprive her of property without due process of law,” reads Maddox’s letter, which he also posted to his Web site.
Pagones dismissed Maddox’s statements.
“The things he’s saying on his Web site are outright lies,” he said. “It’s ludicrous.”
Pagones slapped Brawley with a court order in January to finally collect on his defamation award.
Brawley, who now goes by Tawana Vacenia Thompson Gutierrez and works as a licensed nurse in a Richmond, Va., nursing home, was ordered in 1997 to fork over $190,000 at 9 percent annual interest.
None of it was ever paid, bringing her total bill to $431,492.
Her wages are now being garnished at $150 per week, but Pagones still hasn’t seen a cent. The money is being held in escrow to give Brawley the chance to lodge an appeal.