Overview
- The Solicitor General told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the government and Page had agreed to settle, with the amount reported as $1.25 million.
- The deal resolves a claim under the PATRIOT Act against the United States and leaves his FISA allegations and suits against former FBI officials in place.
- The FBI obtained four warrants from a secret national security court to wiretap Page in 2016 and 2017, and a DOJ watchdog later found 17 significant errors in those applications.
- Page, who was never charged in the Russia inquiry, saw most of his lawsuit dismissed as too late before he appealed to the Supreme Court.
- The move follows other recent DOJ settlements from the Russia probe, including a roughly $1.2 million agreement in March with former national security adviser Michael Flynn.