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Five black and Latino men — wrongfully convicted 24 years ago in the sensational Central Park jogger case that whipped New York into a racial frenzy — have reached a $40 million settlement with the city, a source familiar with the terms said Thursday.

Now middle-aged, the men were teens when they were arrested in 1989 amid a wave of corrosive and polarizing outrage over the savage rape of a 28-year-old woman.

Convicted in 1990, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam were in prison just shy of seven years, while Kharey Wise served nearly 13.

The men, known as the Central Park Five, had been locked in a bitter battle with the city since filing civil rights lawsuits following their exoneration in 2002.

Their convictions were vacated after career criminal Matias Reyes confessed to the brutal crime and DNA evidence backed up his claim.

he Bloomberg administration fought to get their lawsuits dismissed, arguing the city had acted with probable cause.

Then-candidate Bill De Blasio made a campaign promise last year to put the divisive issue to rest if elected.

Neither the Mayor’s office nor the city’s Law Department would comment on the deal, first reported by The New York Times.

But many others expressed their delight.

 

Source:  WBLS.com

 

 

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