NEW YORK (AP) -- A former undercover narcotics detective has accepted a settlement in his civil rights lawsuit against New York City.
According to a proposed judgment filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Zaher Zahrey accepted the $750,000 offer in May. The judge has yet to sign the proposal.
The city admitted no liability.
Zahrey filed the lawsuit in 1998 after a federal grand jury and a departmental trial acquitted him of corruption charges.
The $20 million suit claimed police and prosecutors had manufactured charges that he helped drug gang members in four robberies.
According to defense evidence, a police investigator promised a criminal a "very sweet deal" to testify against the policeman.
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