Settlement In NBC Lawsuit

NEW YORK (AP) - NBC may not be catching any more predators for a
while.
NBC Universal has settled a 105-million-dollar lawsuit brought
by a woman who says a televised sex sting drove her brother to kill
himself.
Patricia Conradt's brother was a suburban Dallas prosecutor. Her
lawsuit claimed he killed himself after he was accused on
"Dateline NBC's To Catch A Predator" show of engaging in a
sexually explicit online chat with what he thought was a
13-year-old boy.
New episodes of the series ended in December. And a spokeswoman
for NBC says it's turning its focus now to investigations dealing
with national security and the economy.
The lawsuit claimed NBC "steamrolled" authorities to arrest
Louis Conradt Junior. A preliminary ruling last winter by a federal
judge declared a jury might conclude the network "crossed the line
from responsible journalism to irresponsible and reckless intrusion
into law enforcement."
Terms of the out-of-court settlement haven't been disclosed but
it's described as amicable.