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Freeport agrees to pay $3.5M to settle suit

Freeport Village has agreed to pay developer Gary Melius $3.5 million to settle an $8.5-million federal racketeering lawsuit that accused officials of plotting to seize his 4-acre Water Works property illegally.

The lawsuit charged that the seizure of that property stemmed from a conspiracy by former Mayor William Glacken, former village attorney Harrison J. Edwards, who is Glacken’s brother-in-law,...

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