Steven Pagones

Steven Pagones

Steven Pagones was an Assistant District Attorney in Dutchess County, New York who was accused in 1987 by Tawana Brawley of raping her. A grand jury investigation concluded that Brawley had not be the victim of an attack and may have simulated the appearance of an attack herself.

Pagones subsequently filed a civil suit against Al Sharpton and lawyers C. Vernon Mason and Alton H. Maddox, seeking $345 million in damages for twenty-two alleged defamatory statements. On July 13, 1998, after an eight-month-long trial, a jury found Sharpton liable for defamation for seven of the statements, Mason for one and Maddox for two. On July 29, 1998 the jury awarded Pagones a total of $345,000 in damages. Sharpton was found liable for $65,000 of the amount, Maddox for $95,000 and Mason for $185,000.

Pagones went on to become an Assistant State Attorney General.

External links

* [http://www.cnn.com/US/9807/13/brawley.verdict.02/ A CNN story on the Pagones suit]
* [http://www.nycourts.gov/press/old_keep/brawley.htm Pagones v Maddox, et. al. - Supreme Court Of New York Decision]


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