Chicago to pay 4 falsely imprisoned men

CHICAGO — The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $31 million to four men imprisoned for 15 years for a rape and murder they didn’t commit.

The sum to settle their police-misconduct lawsuits appeared Friday in agenda notes of the City Council’s finance committee. It will discuss the settlement Monday.

Michael Saunders, Vincent Thames, Harold Richardson and Terrill Swift were freed after 2011 tests matched DNA from the victim’s body to another man who was killed in 2008.

An FBI report unsealed this year accused investigators of pressuring the then-teenagers during the investigation of the 1994 rape and killing of 30-year-old Nina Glover. It cited an ex-prosecutor describing how investigators manipulated the defendants into giving false confessions.

The City Council nearly always approves police-misconduct settlements taken to it for approval.

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