A five-year legal battle between the city of Fort Worth and its former top cop reached the finish line.
The Fort Worth City Council has approved a multimillion-dollar settlement involving its former police chief and his wrongful termination lawsuit.The few people who spoke at Tuesday’s Fort Worth city council meeting said the settlement brings closure, but they still voiced their disappointment that it happened to begin with. The city council unanimously voted to pass an agreement to pay $9.
2 million from the settlement, Birchett will receive $2.4 million and Burke will get $2 million."It is an acceptable resolution and one that everyone found to be acceptable during the time of the mediation," Kennedy said.
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