Twenty-five years after accusing an innocent man of rape, Tawana Brawley is finally paying for her lies.

Last week, 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 were delivered to ex-prosecutor Steven Pagones — the first payments Brawley has made since a court determined in 1998 that she defamed him with her vicious hoax.

A Virginia court this year ordered the money garnisheed from six months of Brawley’s wages as a nurse there.

She still owes Pagones $431,000 in damages. And she remains defiantly unapologetic.

“It’s a long time coming,” said Pagones, 52, who to this day is more interested in extracting a confession from Brawley than cash.

“Every week, she’ll think of me,” he told The Post. “And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth.”

Brawley’s advisers in the infamous race-baiting case — the Rev. Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox — have already paid, or are paying, their defamation debt. But Brawley, 41, had eluded punishment.

She’s now forced to pay Pagones $627 each month, possibly for the rest of her life. Under Virginia law, she can appeal the wage garnishment every six months.

“Finally, she’s paying something,” said Pagones’ attorney, Gary Bolnick. “Symbolically, I think it’s very important — you can’t just do this stuff without consequences.”

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Every week, she’ll think of me,” he told The Post. “And every week, she can think about how she has a way out — she can simply tell the truth.”

I think Steven Pagones is making a mistake here. Why let her off the hook when everyone already knows she lied? Hit her in the pocketbook and make her think about it every week.

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Pagones said he’d forgive the debt if Brawley admits the truth.

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That was be awesome.

She was just a kid at the time, she should just come clean and let the others be known as the garbage that's are

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Who knows how much she is being paid under the table to avoid testifying under oath about her statements made back then,and who knew she was lying and coached her on what to say?

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Brawley’s advisers in the infamous race-baiting case — the Rev. Al Sharpton, and attorneys C. Vernon Mason and Alton Maddox — have already paid, or are paying, their defamation debt.

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I don't believe that to be true. At least not in Sharpton's case. IIRC,the family of the Jewish furniture store owner in Harlem that Sharpton incited crowds to burn down and kill the owner won a settlement against him for damages,and Sharpton got out of paying it by claiming he had no source of income and owned no possessions but the clothes he wears.

I do remember reading later that someone or several someone's who are anonymous ended up paying some of Sharpton's court-ordered obligations for him,but "The Rev", as he likes to be called, has never paid out a dime in damages using his own money.

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Pagones will be payed off in a little over 52 years. Hope he is eating healthy.