Kobe Bryant's Accuser:A White Tawana Brawley

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Re: Kobe Bryant’s accuser: A white Tawana Brawley
By Lloyd Williams, Esq.

But for your title and major premise in the above-referenced article itself, the article deserves to be read. To set the record straight, the accuser in the Tawana Brawley case was Robert Abrams, the state attorney general, rather than the grand jury in Dutchess County, New York. No law enforcement agency ever accepted a criminal complaint from Tawana.
After the defamation trial in Dutchess County Supreme Court involving Steven Pagones as plaintiffs and Alton H. Maddox, Jr., C. Vernon Mason, Rev. Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley as defendants, a grand juror filed an affidavit stating that Abrams had used the grand jury as a rubber stamp. In other words, the grand jury never accused Tawana of committing a hoax.
Abrams, rather than the grand jury, actually wrote the report in violation of Article 190 of the N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law. In a motion to vacate the defamation judgments, the current state attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, avoided committing perjury by refusing to deny an allegation in the grand juror’s affidavit. This constitutes an admission.
This was not “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” The New York Times and CBS News had led the assault, in 1988, against Tawana Brawley. The New York Times actually authored a defamatory book attacking Tawana. After Dan Rather’s apology despite any evidence of Bush 43’s uninterrupted military service, it is now time for the media to apologize to Tawana.
During 1988, Blacks actually picketed outside both media outlets. Yet, the media has to print the grand juror’s affidavit and the verdict in Pagones v. Maddox, et. al. which actually found in my favor. This ruling has allowed me to continue accusing Pagones of being involved in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley.
The doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel prevent Pagones from interfering with my First Amendment rights. If I had lost the defamation trial, I would s till be in Dutchess County for defaming Pagones. Thus, Abrams wrongfully initiated a disciplinary proceeding against me in 1988. It resulted in a wrongful and permanent suspension from the practice of law.
I agree with your inferential conclusion that “Maddox and Mason should be allowed to resume the practice of law.” To be sure, both Abrams, Spitzer and Mark Hurlbert, District Attorney of Eagle Co., CO, should be disciplined like Linda Fairstein, a former assistant district attorney in Manhattan should be disciplined for framing the Central Park jogger defendant.
I have been permanently suspended from the practice of law since 1990 because of my competent and zealous advocacy of Tawana and Sharpton and my refusal to serve as a government snitch while I was representing Sharpton in a 67-count indictment.
I am on the verge of filing a federal civil rights action against sundry public officials and judicial officers in New York. The struggle has been difficult because Black politicians and leaders in New York are under Spitzer’s thumb. Last year, they refused to support my petition to be automatically reinstated to the practice of law despite the miscarriage of justice.
Support is welcomed at this critical stage including a public demand for Spitzer to release all the Brawley files and let the chips fall where they may. If released, these files will show a widespread governmental conspiracy and cover-up involving federal, state and local governments and officials. Spitzer’s complete address:
Eliot Spitzer, Esq.
New York State Attorney General
120 Broadway
New York, NY 10271
e-mail: eliot.spitzer@oag.state.ny.us
212 416-8050


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