A federal judge has signed off on New York City's $41 million settlement with the five men who were wrongly convicted in the brutal 1989 Central Park jogger attack.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the settlement approved Friday an "act of justice'' that is "long overdue.''
The five black and Hispanic defendants were convicted as teenagers in the rape and assault of a white woman.
They served six to 13 years in prison. Their convictions were thrown out in 2002 because of evidence that someone else, acting alone, was responsible.
The victim was found in the brush with more than 75 percent of her blood drained from her body and her skull smashed. She was in a coma for 12 days, suffered permanent damage and remembers nothing about the attack.
