Tawana Brawley: 'victim'

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'Tawana Brawley might finally have become a victim.

Not of former Dutchess County prosecutor Steve Pagones — whom she falsely accused of rape and who is now looking to collect on a defamation judgment he won against her. But of Al Sharpton and lawyers Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason, who used her for their own purposes and then left her hanging.

Brawley was a teen who told a lie, reportedly because she feared her abusive stepfather. But Sharpton, Maddox and Mason were adults. They ran with her story and made wild charges against Pagones and others, inflaming racial tensions for personal gain. Pagones, who lost his career and marriage over it, sued all four — and won.'