City of New Orleans paid $40K to cabbie who videotaped local lawyer’s sex plea

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The city quietly coughed up $40,000 last year to a cab driver who claimed he was jailed on bogus charges based on the word of a local radio host who had implored him to have sex with her in the front seat of his taxi — a lubricious encounter he videotaped on his cell phone.

The city cut a check to Hervey Farrell last summer to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit over his August 2013 arrest on voyeurism and extortion counts, according to records obtained Monday, The city attorney’s office had earlier refused to turn over the settlement terms, citing ongoing litigation that ended last week when a judge formally dismissed Farrell’s related claims against the radio show host and attorney, Jennifer Gaubert.

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