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OUTRAGE: Tawana Brawley attends an Atlanta rally with Al Sharpton in 1988, three months before a jury would rule that her rape tale was a hoax. She had been lying low until The Post last December found her living in Virginia.
Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.
Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones - the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.
A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnished from six months of Brawley's wages as a nurse there.
She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.
"It's a long time coming," said Pagones, 52, who to this day is more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash.
"Every week, she'll think of me," he told
The Post. "And every week, she can think about how she has a way out - she can simply tell the truth."
Brawley's advisers in the infamous race-baiting case - the Rev. Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox - have already paid, or are paying, their defamation debt. But Brawley, 41, had eluded punishment.
Comment: 'I'm not a liar' - Tawana Brawley stands by her account of kidnap, rape by 6 white men in 1987