The U.S. government has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the family of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax attacks, resolving a long-running lawsuit in which family members had accused the government of negligence.
In documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Fla., the Justice Department agreed to the settlement but did not admit liability in the death of Robert Stevens. Stevens, an employee of American Media, publisher of the National Enquirer and other tabloids, was exposed to the anthrax spores and died Oct. 5, 2001.
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