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forwardslash  ·  4410 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 15 Years Later, Tawana Brawley Has Paid 1 Percent Of Penalty : The Two-Way : NPR

My question is: why did it take so long to get her to start paying damages?





cliffelam  ·  4410 days ago  ·  link  ·  

She was ducking the judgement. She's had a ton of jobs, under aliases, false social security numbers, etc, etc. She finally settled down enough to get nabbed. A common enough story, from what I've learned.

-XC

thenewgreen  ·  4410 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It sounded like she had just started a job and maybe didn't have one previously. Hard to garnish wages when there are none.