The case inflamed racial tensions, with Mr. Maddox later calling New York “the Mississippi of the ’90s.” After the fraud was revealed, he was unrepentant.
NEW YORK (AP) Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died. He was 77. Maddox died Sunday in a Bronx nursing home, funeral director Isaiah Owens said.