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A federal judge has approved a $41 million civil rights settlement to five black and Hispanic men wrongfully convicted in the horrific beating and rape of a white female jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement Friday.
Central Park jogger case brings $41 million settlement - CNN.com
A De Blasio give away. Bloomberg fought the settlement. They were not exonerated...their conviction was vacated. Big difference.
Why don't you research your position before posting it and making yourself appear uninformed?
New York City has agreed to pay $40 million (£24 million) to five men who were convicted, and later exonerated, of brutally raping a female jogger in Central Park in 1989, settling a long-fought civil rights lawsuit, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Five men wrongfully convicted for 1989 NY Central Park rape given $40m
5 Exonerated in Central Park Jogger Case Agree to Settle Suit for $40 Million
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/n...r-case-are-to-settle-suit-for-40-million.html
I did my homework...you should have too.
In one final, extraordinary ruling that took about five minutes, Justice Charles J. Tejada of State Supreme Court in Manhattan granted recent motions made by defense lawyers and Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, to vacate all convictions against the young men in connection with the jogger attack and a spree of robberies and assaults in the park that night.
Convictions and Charges Voided In '89 Central Park Jogger Attack
Convictions and Charges Voided In '89 Central Park Jogger Attack