Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and Actualidad Media Group have reached a settlement in a defamation lawsuit that Lago filed over on-air remarks falsely claiming he was under investigation by the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust.

The agreement was reached last week, according to an Aug. 8 filing from former Miami-Dade Chief Circuit Judge Joseph Farina , who stepped in to mediate the dispute in April at the agreement of both parties.

A settlement sum wasn’t specified. Lago’s lawsuit sought more than $100,000 in damages. Sources familiar with the case told Florida Politics Actualidad agreed to pay Lago “six figures.”

In a joint statement, Lago and Actualidad laid out a brief, agreed-upon timeline for the disputed claim before confirming it has been resolv

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