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