JUNE 3, 2010 12:43 PM
\nThe city said it reached a $9.9 million settlement agreement on Thursday with a man who was released from prison nearly two decades after beingframed for a murder he did not commitby a police officer who doubled as a mob hit man.<\/p>\n
The payout to the man, Barry Gibbs, 61, would be the largest settlement the city has paid in response to a civil rights lawsuit, eclipsing the $8.75 million paid to Abner Louima in 2002, said Barry Scheck, who represented Mr. Gibbs.<\/p>\n
The payout comes in addition to a $1.9 million wrongful conviction payment that Mr. Gibbs has already received from the state.<\/span><\/p>\n The settlement still requires approval from Judge I. Leo Glasser of United States District Court in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n The 1988 conviction of Mr. Gibbs for murdering a prostitute and dumping her body on the Belt Parkway was overturned in 2005, when his original case file was discovered in the Las Vegas apartment of Louis J. Eppolito.<\/p>\n Mr. Eppolito, now known as one of the two notorious \u201cMafia cops,\u201d had led the investigation of Mr. Gibbs. Subsequent investigation revealed that a key witness said he had been told to lie by Mr. Eppolito. Mr. Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sentenced to life in prison in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JUNE 3, 2010 12:43 PM The city said it reached a $9.9 million settlement agreement on Thursday with a man who was released from prison nearly two decades after beingframed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-from-2010-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelgreenwald.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}