Letter to Larry King
ALTON H. MADDOX, JR. TELEPHONE: 718-834-9034
FAX: 718-834-1275
16 COURT STREET, SUITE 1901
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11241
April 20, 2006
Larry King
CNN
One Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
Re: Tawana Brawley
Dear Larry King:
I was the chief counsel for Tawana Brawley until May 1990. In the past, I have appeared on “Larry King Live” to debate a reporter from The New York Times about Tawana Brawley. The New York Times, similar to the case of Wen Ho Lee, was a mover and shaker in conspiring with New York State in defaming Tawana Brawley. In both of these cases, racism was the motive.
On April 19, 2006, John Walsh, host of “America’s Most Wanted,” appeared on your television program to discuss, inter alia, the Duke rape case. Walsh started by suggesting that the Black rape victim may be lying. In cases in which the rape suspect is Black and the victim is white, I have never heard of a white person appearing in the media and suggesting that a white, female victim might be lying.
Walsh asserted that he hoped the Duke rape case does not “turn out like the Tawana Brawley case” He asserted that she ruined the life of a perpetrator, Steven Pagones, who was an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County in 1987 and 1988. This is not an unusual comment since, in 1987, no white man in this country had ever been sent to prison for raping a Black female. Can you name one today?
Pagones v. Maddox et. al, is a public record in the Dutchess County Supreme Court. It was the longest and certainly the most costly civil trial in New York history. As the trial relates to me, a jury of five white persons and one Black person found that I did not defame Pagones when I accused him of being involved in the rape and kidnapping of Tawana Brawley.
The jury’s verdict means that something happened to Tawana and Pagones was involved in the crimes. Judge Judith Hillary of Dutchess County Court petitioned Gov. Mario Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor for Tawana Brawley since Pagones’ refusal to relieve himself of his duties as an assistant district attorney would compromise a criminal investigation. Pagones was a suspect.
Similarly, FBI files show that Pagones was a suspect in a federal civil rights investigation involving Tawana Brawley even though his stealth girlfriend had been assigned to head the federal probe. Despite the fact that Pagones was a public servant, he refused to cooperate with the federal investigation in February 1988. If Martha Stewart has a responsibility to tell the truth, what law exempts Pagones –the Fifth Amendment?
During this time, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams asserted that he had no suspect and Tawana Brawley was wrongfully refusing to cooperate with the bogus, state investigation. He had suppressed the correspondence from Judge Hillery identifying Pagones as a suspect. He would later use a grand jury to disparage Tawana’s claim by characterizing it as a hoax.
Subsequent to the defamation trial, a grand juror filed an affidavit, which remains unchallenged, that Abrams conducted the grand jury investigation in violation of Article 190 of the N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law. He also withheld critical information and he used unethical experts to support his accusation of a hoax.
This grand juror questions whether a quorum existed as required by law and he asserts that the grand jury was prevented from performing its duty of writing a grand jury report. Abrams was the author and he alone made the “hoax” accusation and then attributed it to the grand jury. In the past, courts have routinely suppressed grand jury reports written by prosecutors.
The unrefuted facts and official, documentary evidence show that Abrams lied about the death of Harry Crist, Jr., a police officer, who Tawana fingered as a participant in her kidnapping and rape. Abrams publicly claimed that suicide was the manner of death while suppressing the autopsy report which unequivocally asserted that homicide was the manner of Crist’s death.
This is an alarming fact. No statute of limitations applies to homicide in New York. It means that someone has gotten away with murder. Pagones and Crist were friends. The New York Times reported that Pagones placed a .357 magnum to Crist’s head and threatened to give it a blow-out. Pagones never denied this claim in his deposition.
There is much more to the Brawley case than I can summarize in this letter. In addition to the public record, I would suggest that you demand that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer releases the investigatory files which include the FBI investigation. There are sensitive 9/11 files in the custody of the CIA that will see sunlight before the Brawley files see the light of day. Abrams is a close friend of Spitzer who is benefiting from Spitzer moonlighting as a sentry.
I am the only public defender of Tawana Brawley. Others have taken the media attention and money from her victimization and took flight. Of course, these persons could be persuaded to make another landing if the price is right. If these persons appeared on “Larry King Live” or any other media program, they would behave like parrots and sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
Very truly yours,
Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
FAX: 718-834-1275
16 COURT STREET, SUITE 1901
BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11241
April 20, 2006
Larry King
CNN
One Time Warner Center
New York, NY 10019
Re: Tawana Brawley
Dear Larry King:
I was the chief counsel for Tawana Brawley until May 1990. In the past, I have appeared on “Larry King Live” to debate a reporter from The New York Times about Tawana Brawley. The New York Times, similar to the case of Wen Ho Lee, was a mover and shaker in conspiring with New York State in defaming Tawana Brawley. In both of these cases, racism was the motive.
On April 19, 2006, John Walsh, host of “America’s Most Wanted,” appeared on your television program to discuss, inter alia, the Duke rape case. Walsh started by suggesting that the Black rape victim may be lying. In cases in which the rape suspect is Black and the victim is white, I have never heard of a white person appearing in the media and suggesting that a white, female victim might be lying.
Walsh asserted that he hoped the Duke rape case does not “turn out like the Tawana Brawley case” He asserted that she ruined the life of a perpetrator, Steven Pagones, who was an assistant district attorney in Dutchess County in 1987 and 1988. This is not an unusual comment since, in 1987, no white man in this country had ever been sent to prison for raping a Black female. Can you name one today?
Pagones v. Maddox et. al, is a public record in the Dutchess County Supreme Court. It was the longest and certainly the most costly civil trial in New York history. As the trial relates to me, a jury of five white persons and one Black person found that I did not defame Pagones when I accused him of being involved in the rape and kidnapping of Tawana Brawley.
The jury’s verdict means that something happened to Tawana and Pagones was involved in the crimes. Judge Judith Hillary of Dutchess County Court petitioned Gov. Mario Cuomo to appoint a special prosecutor for Tawana Brawley since Pagones’ refusal to relieve himself of his duties as an assistant district attorney would compromise a criminal investigation. Pagones was a suspect.
Similarly, FBI files show that Pagones was a suspect in a federal civil rights investigation involving Tawana Brawley even though his stealth girlfriend had been assigned to head the federal probe. Despite the fact that Pagones was a public servant, he refused to cooperate with the federal investigation in February 1988. If Martha Stewart has a responsibility to tell the truth, what law exempts Pagones –the Fifth Amendment?
During this time, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams asserted that he had no suspect and Tawana Brawley was wrongfully refusing to cooperate with the bogus, state investigation. He had suppressed the correspondence from Judge Hillery identifying Pagones as a suspect. He would later use a grand jury to disparage Tawana’s claim by characterizing it as a hoax.
Subsequent to the defamation trial, a grand juror filed an affidavit, which remains unchallenged, that Abrams conducted the grand jury investigation in violation of Article 190 of the N.Y. Criminal Procedure Law. He also withheld critical information and he used unethical experts to support his accusation of a hoax.
This grand juror questions whether a quorum existed as required by law and he asserts that the grand jury was prevented from performing its duty of writing a grand jury report. Abrams was the author and he alone made the “hoax” accusation and then attributed it to the grand jury. In the past, courts have routinely suppressed grand jury reports written by prosecutors.
The unrefuted facts and official, documentary evidence show that Abrams lied about the death of Harry Crist, Jr., a police officer, who Tawana fingered as a participant in her kidnapping and rape. Abrams publicly claimed that suicide was the manner of death while suppressing the autopsy report which unequivocally asserted that homicide was the manner of Crist’s death.
This is an alarming fact. No statute of limitations applies to homicide in New York. It means that someone has gotten away with murder. Pagones and Crist were friends. The New York Times reported that Pagones placed a .357 magnum to Crist’s head and threatened to give it a blow-out. Pagones never denied this claim in his deposition.
There is much more to the Brawley case than I can summarize in this letter. In addition to the public record, I would suggest that you demand that New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer releases the investigatory files which include the FBI investigation. There are sensitive 9/11 files in the custody of the CIA that will see sunlight before the Brawley files see the light of day. Abrams is a close friend of Spitzer who is benefiting from Spitzer moonlighting as a sentry.
I am the only public defender of Tawana Brawley. Others have taken the media attention and money from her victimization and took flight. Of course, these persons could be persuaded to make another landing if the price is right. If these persons appeared on “Larry King Live” or any other media program, they would behave like parrots and sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
Very truly yours,
Alton H. Maddox, Jr.
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