Maybe now she’ll really have to sleep in a trash bag. A week after The Post reported exclusively that rape hoaxer Tawana Brawley’s first $3,764 in garnisheed wages was sent to the man she defamed 25 years ago, she has lost her job — and her bed. A Rent-A-Center truck pulled up at noon yesterday at the reclusive Brawley’s apartment in the central Virginia town of Hopewell, and two workers removed her mattress, box spring and bed frame. Brawley — who opened her door for the workers and moved her car for their truck — would not comment on the furniture repo or the loss of her job as a licensed practical nurse at The Laurels of Bon Air nursing home in Richmond. Brawley, at age 15, crawled covered in feces out of a trash bag in Wappingers Falls, NY, to accuse prosecutor Steven Pagones and five white men of raping her. This past May, Brawley — who remains defiantly unapologetic — collected an undisclosed sum at a New Jersey fund-raiser, Pagones pointed out. The 41-year-old single mother of a young girl is required to pay Pagones more than $400,000 under a 1998 court decision in Pagones’ defamation suit against Brawley. A percentage of her weekly paychecks will be garnished — likely for the rest of her life — to pay that judgment. “I’m hoping eventually she’ll get tired of living like this and she realizes it will be easier to tell the truth and put this whole thing behind her,” Pagones said yesterday. Still, “who knows what name she might be using next time, or what Social Security number,” he said. Brawley has used at least two aliases since her flight. “We called her ‘Tee-Tee,’ ” an ex-colleague said at the nursing home yesterday. “She is not stupid enough to tell us where she went,” the co-worker said, adding that Brawley is secretive. “All I can tell you is she’s no longer working here,” said Honor Chriscoe, the nursing home’s administrator. Pagones lawyer Gary Bolnick also confirmed the circuit court in Surry County, Va., has notified him that Brawley is no longer employed at the nursing home.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 15:56:03 +0000