New York Post

Here are the 10 largest payouts the city has made to settle suits filed against the NYPD over the past five years:

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$40 million:

Devon Ayers, Michael Cosme, Eric Glisson, Carlos Perez and Cathy Watkins each received $8 million for their wrongful conviction­s in the 1995 killings of livery driver Baithe Diop and FedEx exec Denise Raymond in The Bronx.

$26 million:

Antonio Yarbough (left) and the estate of Abdul Shariff Wilson (inset) each received $13 million for their wrongful conviction­s in the 1992 stabbing and strangling of Yarbough’s mother, sister and another girl in Coney Island.

$19.38 million:

Everton Wagstaffe (right) got $11.43 million and Reginald Cono received $7.95 million for their wrongful conviction­s in the kidnapping of 16-year-old Jennifer Negron, whose partially clothed body was found beaten and stabbed in East New York on New Year’s Day 1992.

$12.25 million:

This is what Andre Hatchett (above) got for his wrongful conviction in the 1991 strangling of Neda Mae Carter, whose naked and battered body was found in a crucifixio­n pose in a BedfordStu­yvesant park.

$9.5 million:

Ruddy Quezada (right) received that amount for his wrongful conviction in the 1991 slaying of bystander José Rosado during a drive-by shooting that was meant to target a drug dealer in East New York.

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