Everett newspaper to settle libel suit by mayor by paying him $1.1 million and then shutting down forever

The Globe reports on the legal victory by Carlo DeMaria whom the Everett Leader Herald called "Kickback Carlo" among other things. A Middlesex Superior Court judge last year froze property owned by paper owner Matthew Philbin and publisher - and writer - Joshua Resnek after concluding DeMaria had a damn good case that the paper was deliberately making crap up about him.