Tawana Brawley finally starts paying $431,000 debt to man she wrongly accused of gang-raping & kidnapping her 26 years ago. Court docks her wages

• Brawley, 41, last week paid the first of many checks to Steven Pagones whom she owes hundreds of thousands of dollars
• In 1987, the then-15-year-old dragged the ex-prosecutor's name through the mud when she called him a 'gang-raping, kidnapping racist'
• Brawley was ordered to pay $190,000 in 1998 but the figure has ballooned with interest
• A court ruled in January that her wages as a nurse be docked to settle her debt 

Mail Online - A woman who lied about being gang-raped 26 years ago has finally begun to pay back an innocent man whose reputation she left in tatters.

In January, former New York prosecutor Steven Pagones filed court papers seeking the $431,000 he is owed by Tawana Brawley, who, as a 15-year-old, falsely labeled him a 'gang-raping, kidnapping racist.'

Last week, Brawley sent him her first payment - 10 checks totaling $3,764.61 - after the Virginia court ordered the money garnisheed from the nurse's wages. It comes 15 years after a court ruled that she defamed him with her nasty hoax.

'It's a long time coming,' Pagones, 52, told The New York Post.  More