A lobbyist's lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspaper's account of her ties to Senator John McCain has been settled, the paper said on Friday.
The suit, filed by Vicki L Iseman, the Washington lobbyist, was settled without payment and The Times did not retract the article. In an unusual agreement, however, The Times is letting Iseman's lawyers give their views on the suit on the paper's website, the report said.
Their opinion is accompanied by a joint statement from both sides.
The suit stemmed from an article published on Feb 21 last year, when McCain had become the all-but-certain Republican presidential nominee.
The article had said that despite his public posture as an ethics reformer, the senator had at times been blind to his own potential conflicts of interest.
The article dwelled in particular on his friendship with Iseman, a lobbyist for telecommunications companies that had business with the commerce committee, which McCain once headed.
The article said that in 1999, during a previous presidential run, some top McCain advisers who were "convinced the relationship had become romantic," warned Iseman to steer clear of the senator and confronted McCain about the matter.
