Accident prompts lawsuit

Alison Carey, struggling sister of Mariah,

 denies claims that she was driving drunk before crash

The other driver’s wife was quoted in a British
 newspaper saying a witness told her that Alison
 “…reeked of alcohol” after her car hit a truck. 

Alison is now seeking legal advice for this false and defamatory statement.

   

      SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y - In March of 2014 a car driven by Alson collided with a 14,000-pound truck.
     In September 2014, the driver of the other vehicle, Joseph Criscione, filed a lawsuit against Alison in which he alleges he received injuries that have left him permanently disabled and unable to work. He is demanding $2 million compensation from her.

      The case is scheduled for trial in Riverhead, L.I.

      Alison has no assets. She lives on a government benefit in subsidized housing and struggles with a traumatic brain injury she received during a home invasion robbery in 2015, and with post traumatic stress, a result of several years of horrific abuse that started when she was a small child.

      In a story published by the U.K. based Daily Mail on Aug. 4, Criscione’s wife Lauri claims a witness told her that Alison “..reeked of alcohol” after the crash in Southampton, Long Island. But she is also quoted as saying the the police did not test Alison for intoxication.    

      Lauri Criscione apparently did not give the Daily Mail the name of this alleged witness.

      And Alison Carey categorically denies that she was drunk at the time of the 6 a.m. crash.

      But despite no evidence that Alison was intoxicated, Lauri Criscione made these completely false and defamatory allegations - which also smear the reputation of the police officer who attended the crash by suggesting that he declined to give a sobriety test to someone who had just been involved in a serious accident and who, according to Criscione's unidentified witness, “..reeked of alcohol.”

  And while acknowledging that there is no evidence that Alison was intoxicated, the Daily Mail nevertheless published Lauri Criscione’s baseless allegation, even stating in a story summary that Alison “…drunkenly” crossed into the oncoming lane.

   The story contains no indication that the Daily Mail reporter made any attempt to contact Alison, or to obtain separate evidence that she was drunk. Instead the paper, without checking, published Lauri Croscione’s false and defamatory claims.

   in legal terms, this is called “a reckless disregard for the truth.”

   Alison is now seeking legal advice both in New York and in the U.K. to address what appears to be an effort by the Crosciones to get publicity for their claim against a penniless and disabled person who happens to have a wealthy sibling, and to hold accountable a publication that has no problem publishing sensational and defamatory claims without letting the absence of facts get in the way.

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