Share Steven Pagones: victim of a rape hoax promoted by Rev. Al Sharpton. Pagones won a defamation suit against Sharpon. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.

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April 20, 2015

Steven Pagones: victim of a rape hoax promoted by Rev. Al Sharpton. Pagones won a defamation suit against Sharpon. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.

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['In 1987, Rev. Al Sharpton accused Steven Pagones, then an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York, of being one of six white men who raped Tawana Brawley, an African American teenager. A grand jury, after interviewing 180 witnesses, concluded the rape charges were a hoax. Pagones later won defamation suits against Sharpton and Brawley. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.Pagones recounts the impact the case had on his life.', OrderedDict([('@xmlns:itunes', 'http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'), ('#text', 'In 1987, Rev. Al Sharpton accused Steven Pagones, then an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York, of being one of six white men who raped Tawana Brawley, an African American teenager. A grand jury, after interviewing 180 witnesses, concluded the rape charges were a hoax. Pagones later won defamation suits against Sharpton and Brawley. But Sharpton refuses to apologize.Pagones recounts the impact the case had on his life.')])]

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