Alton H. Maddox Jr.
Alton H. Maddox, Jr. is a lawyer who was disbarred following his involvement in the Tawana Brawley rape allegations. Maddox, C. Vernon Mason and Al Sharpton were successfully sued over the matter and ordered to pay damages to Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney he defamed. He is a supporter of the anti-Semitism of Louis Farrakhan and Khalid Abdul Muhammad; in reference to Farrakhan's calling Jews "bloodsuckers", Maddox said "You'd better be glad that the only thing we are doing is calling you bloodsuckers."[1] Later, when Muhammad was fired by Farrakhan for a racist and anti-Semitic speech at Kean College, Maddox stayed with Muhammad.[2] Maddox and his group, the United African Movement, have been fined by New York City's Commission on Human Rights for denying people access to their public meetings on the basis of race.[3] In 1996 Maddox was ordered to pay New York State $1,000 in legal costs for filing a false complaint of racial bias. He had alleged that he had had to apply to represent an indigent defendant in a murder case, while two lawyers who were white had been appointed to represent the other defendant in the case without having to apply. The state showed evidence that in fact, the two lawyers had applied and Maddox had filed a discrimination suit instead of going through the applications process. Michael Mukasey, at that time a Federal judge, ordered Maddox to pay New York State the legal costs it had incurred defending against the suit.[4] Maddox was the defense lawyer for one of the two men hired by Marla Hanson's landlord to mutilate and disfigure her; Maddox's tactics of assaulting Hanson's character on racial and sexual grounds brought considerable attention to the trial.[5][6] Maddox represented the family of manslaughter victim Michael Griffith and in that capacity caused controversy by accusing the NYPD and Commissioner Benjamin Ward of a cover-up.[7] Maddox has also written of his belief that the United States Constitution was written by "the Illuminati, using the Free Masons as a front."[8]
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- ^ http://www.adl.org/issue_nation_of_islam/reports/prelude.pdf , page 5
- ^ Noel, Peter (August 19 - 25, 1998). "Rage Against Muhammad". The Village Voice. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
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- ^ McFadden, Robert (1988-12-25). "Maddox is Ordered to Pay $1,000 For Filing a False Bias Complaint". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ James, George (1987-05-12). "Man Given 5-To-15-Year Term In Model's Slashing". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Shipp, E. E. (1987-04-21). "Defense Lawyers' Tactics: Unfair Or Just Aggressive?". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Barron, James (1987-01-09). "Ward Renews Attack on Lawyer in Beating Case". New York Times. p. B5. Retrieved 2007-12-20.
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