Did Pagones commit perjury or make false statements during his pre-trial deposition in early March 1997?
Yes. Pagones initially testified that he had retained an attorney on March 14, 1988 after Maddox publicly accused him of being involved in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana. The lawyer was retained, Pagones then claimed, to sue Maddox. Later, he changed his story. He had retained a criminal defense attorney before March 13, 1998 to deal with the media. This was also a lie. Actually, Pagones had retained a criminal defense attorney in January 1988 to represent him in a federal civil rights investigation concerning the deprivation of Tawana’s civil rights. He lied, obviously, to shield the fact that he was a suspect which would have weakened his prosecution of a defamation trial and would have exposed Cuomo and Abrams. The fact that he was a criminal suspect never surfaced until late in the defamation trial. Pagones and his father, who was his attorney, had an ethical obligation not to support perjured testimony. As a judge and attorney, his father had an ethical obligation to expose his
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