NEW YORK (AP) — One of five men exonerated in the Central Park jogger case is thanking New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for settling a lawsuit over the men’s 1989 arrests.
Korey Wise spoke briefly at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s Harlem headquarters on Saturday.
He said, “For the new mayor — yes! Yes!”
City Comptroller Scott Stringer said Friday that the city has tentatively settled the lawsuit filed by the five men who were arrested as teens in the notorious attack.
Stringer said the settlement was “in the ballpark” of $40 million.
The five were found guilty in the attack on a female jogger and sentenced to prison.
In 2002, a re-examination of the case pointed to another suspect, Matias Reyes. He confessed to the attack.
Wise thanked Reyes for confessing.
