Steven Pagones said Tawana Brawley has begun paying him damages 26 years after she falsely accused him of being among a group of men who raped her. The payment came as nearly $3,800 in wage garnishments, Pagones told CNN Sunday. Brawley still owes Pagones more than $400,000 in defamation damages. In the fall of 1987, Brawley, who is black, was found in a trash bag in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., with racial slurs written across her body. Then 15, she claimed she was kidnapped and repeatedly raped by a group of white men. The Rev. Al Sharpton became Brawley\'s spokesman, with the activist organizing rallies and calling for justice on her behalf. When a grand jury heard the case, it determined Brawley lied. Pagones, who was an assistant district attorney, then filed a civil suit against Brawley, Sharpton and Brawley\'s lawyers as defendants. Sharpton paid his debt to Pagones, but Brawley, now 41 and a nurse in Virginia, still owes Pagones more than $431,000. Pagones told CNN he would forgive Brawley\'s debt if she would issue a personal apology and clear his name of all wrongdoing. \"Just tell the truth. That\'s all I\'m looking for here. I have been battling this since day one, and it\'s really all about telling the truth,\" Pagones said.