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...criminal reports that aren't motivated by money or revenge are rare, according to forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz, who knows of roughly 50 U.S. cases in the past 20 years. When they do happen, they tend to make headlines. In 1988, Dietz testified in the grand jury investigation of Tawana Brawley, a black woman who claimed to have been abducted and raped by a gang of white men in upstate New York. The grand jury found her claims to be untrue. Dietz coined the term factitious victimization disorder to describe what occurs when someone claims to be a victim...
...earned him as many skeptics from both parties as has his controversial past, which is tainted by missing financial records, sketchy political donors and claims of anti-white racism. Sharpton has still not apologized for his 1988 rape accusations against a New York prosecutor, even after the accuser, Tawana Brawley, was found to be lying...
...peaceful protests after police shootings have quieted some, but hardly all, of the deep qualms aroused by his rabble rousing during the 1980s. Many people will never forgive him for claiming, with no evidence, that a young white prosecutor named Steven Pagones took part in the rape of Tawana Brawley, a black teenager whose story has been thoroughly discredited. A group of black businessmen has paid the $65,000 defamation judgment Pagones won from Sharpton in 1998. But Sharpton has yet to apologize...
...political enemies. For example, after Bill Bradley assailed George W. Bush for hustling votes at South Carolina's Bob Jones University, which still bans interracial dating, conservative pundit George F. Will homed in on Bradley's meetings with Sharpton. Noting that Sharpton "associated with a colossal fraud in the Tawana Brawley case," Will asked Bradley in a TV interview, "Are you comfortable around him? And why?" Bradley ducked the question...
...wild popularity in the late 1980s. But do not let the terrible movie adaptation prejudice you against reading the book. Bonfire captured the black comedy of American society and justice during the Me decade; the story of Sherman McCoy's encounter with Reverend Bacon and Henry Lamb presaged the Tawana Brawley-Al Sharpton scam with eerie accuracy. Given the book's success, one can understand the promotional circus surrounding A Man in Full, Wolfe's newest book, which earned the dapper author a spot on NBC's "Today" and the cover of Time Magazine...