MADDOX RAPS CONSPIRACY COMPLAINT.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: Associated Press

POUGHKEEPSIE -- Alton Maddox on Monday tried to poke holes into allegations he and two other former advisers to Tawana Brawley recklessly conspired to connect Steven Pagones to an alleged attack on her more than a decade ago.

Pagones filed the $395 million defamation suit against the advisers for implicating him in the alleged attack on Brawley. A special grand jury later cleared Pagones and found the girl's story without merit.

In one instance, Maddox showed a 1988 video of the New Jersey-based talk show ``People Are Talking,'' in which the attorney appeared with the Rev. Al Sharpton to talk about the alleged rape and …