Man Falsely Accused of Rape by Sharpton: Advertisers Must Drop Support

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'Steven Pagones is a former Assistant District Attorney in the State of New York. He became the victim of Al Sharpton’s defamatory smear campaign to label him a rapist of 15-year-old black girl Tawana Brawley in 1987. Now he speaks out at Truth Revolt. To help stop advertiser support for Sharpton, sign our petition:

In November of 1987, 15-year-old African-American girl Tawana Brawley went missing. When she was found, it is alleged that she began telling people that she had been approached, kidnapped, raped, sodomized, and her body scrawled on with human feces by individuals whom she supposedly described as resembling white police officers. Law enforcement officials began working with her, but she soon enlisted the efforts of attorneys Alton Maddox, Vernon Mason, and a then-obscure supposed civil rights leader named Al Sharpton.
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I’m not looking for, nor do I expect an apology from someone like Al Sharpton. Rather, what I hope to see -- and what I hope the networks and advertisers would push for -- would be for Sharpton to admit that he now knows that Steve Pagones and the other individuals he lied about had nothing to do with whatever happened to Brawley. In my opinion, until Sharpton comes clean about the things that he’s done in the past -- until he’s able to confront his demons and set the record straight -- he’ll never gain the legitimacy he’s hoping to gain. He’ll always have that history, no matter how much the media try to rehabilitate him. He’ll always have to live with the Tawana Brawley story, with the damage that he caused to race relations. That’s going to be his legacy.'