Just What The Country Needs...Reverend Al & Tawana Brawley 2007

As if the lie and circus surrounding this woman the first time wasn't enough the family, (not Tawana Brawley herself under her new name), feels the need to drag this story back out of the garbage heap for reasons unknown. But we're sure the race baiting pub hungry Rev will certainly love the additional attention and can always use the publicity reopening this scabbed wound would bring to him.

There wasn't much for him in the Dog Chapman incident, Jena has cooled off and Imus is back to work so it's time to find some fresh prey, and maybe he coaxed the family into dredging this up to bring in some possible new business .

Report: Family wants Tawana Brawley case reopened

CNN.com: "NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flash point, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday."

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.

"New York state owes my daughter. They owe her the truth," said Glenda Brawley. She reiterated her stance that her daughter was indeed raped by a group of white men who smeared her with feces and scrawled racial epithets on her body.

Representatives for Spitzer and Cuomo did not immediately respond to telephone and e-mail messages.

Brawley was 15 when she went missing for four days from her home in Wappingers Falls, about 75 miles north of New York. After being found, she made the shocking allegation that she had been abducted and raped by six white law enforcement officials.

The case quickly made headlines and drew the attention of the Rev. Al Sharpton, who became an outspoken advocate for the teen.

But a special state grand jury found evidence Brawley had fabricated her story. A former Dutchess County prosecutor who had been implicated in the case later sued Brawley, Sharpton and other Brawley advisers for defamation, winning a $345,000 judgment against the advisers and a $185,000 judgment against Brawley.

A spokeswoman for Sharpton, who was held liable for $65,000 in the case, did not immediately respond to an e-mail message early Sunday. The former prosecutor's attorney did not immediately return a telephone message.

Brawley has changed her name and become a nurse, the Daily News reported

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