Mayor Bill de Blasio's election broke a stalemate in the contentious 11-year-old litigation, enabling lawyers who were still far away from trial to reach a reported $40 million settlement between the city and the five men who served prison terms for the 1989 rape and beating before another man confessed.
June 23, 2014 at 12:00 AM
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This article has been updated to relect a earlier correction.
Mayor Bill de Blasio came to office vowing that he would settle the Central Park Five case in the face of entrenched opposition by police and prosecutors who insisted there was probable cause to arrest and take to trial five teenagers for the rape and beating of jogger Patricia Meili in 1989.
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