Pay-Off for Peter's Lack of Principles: Justice Launders $2M to Strzok and Page

Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney from Politico 1:00 PM | July 27, 2024

The Justice Department has agreed to pay a total of $2 million to settle legal claims brought by former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page over the DOJ’s release of text messages the pair exchanged.

The agreement ends a lawsuit Page brought, but does not fully resolve Strzok’s separate suit, allowing him to continue to press his claims that he was fired in order to please then-President Donald Trump.

On Friday, Strzok’s lawyers announced his $1.2 million agreement as attorneys for both sides notified a federal judge in Washington that the privacy-focused portion of that dispute was resolved.


“This outcome is a critical step forward in addressing the government’s unfair and highly politicized treatment of Pete,” Strzok attorney Aitan Goelman said in a statement. “As important as it is for him, it also vindicates the privacy interests of all government employees. We will continue to litigate Pete’s constitutional claims to ensure that, in the future, public servants are protected from adverse employment actions motivated by partisan politics.”
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