Of more than 180 claims already filed, 33 cases have so far been settled for a total of $1.75 million, including one for a woman who fractured her leg and pelvis and settled for $1.125 million.
The defendants eventually settled for a total of $29.8 million without admitting or denying guilt.
Seventeen years later three of the cases have been settled, for a total of 191,000 reais.
To date, 125 of the 186 personal injury claims filed after the accident have been settled, for a total of $35.5 million.
Starting in 1993, however, Mr. Budnick was one of two lead defendants in sexual-harassment lawsuits that were filed by seven women working in the Sheriff's Department and eventually settled for a total of more than $1.4 million, not including legal fees.
These actions also provided the basis for Hillard and his aide's inclusion as defendants in no fewer than five federal court torture/wrongful conviction cases, three of which have been settled for a total of approximately $17,000,000, while the other two are still pending.
It led to two lawsuits that the city agreed to settle for a total of $50,000.
The five publishers who were accused by the government of participating in the alleged conspiracy - MacMillan, Simons & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Penguin - have already settled, paying out a total of $164m.
They follow UBS and Citigroup, which settled earlier this month for a total of $250 million in fines.
