The US Justice Department has settled a lawsuit with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for $1.2 million. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian diplomat. The settlement was reached without revealing the amount.

The US Justice Department has settled for roughly US$1.2 million a lawsuit from Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty during the Republican’s first term to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian diplomat and was later pardoned. Court papers filed on Wednesday do not reveal the settlement amount, but a person familiar with the matter, who spoke to Associated Press on condition of anonymity to disclose nonpublic...