In addition to the settlement, firefighter Melinda Abbt also received $250,000 in a separate lawsuit against the city employee who stole the video. ABBT SETTLEMENT: Mayor Whitmire says ...

Today, Houston City Council approved an $850,000 settlement with former Houston Fire Department Captain Melinda ... video from Abbt's personal laptop and shared it with another firefighter.

A former Houston firefighter will receive an $850,000 ... Houston City Council approved the settlement for Melinda Abbt during a council meeting Wednesday. It comes about a year after a jury ...

This comes after officials say a supervisor secretly took an intimate video from Abbt's personal laptop and shared it with another firefighter. They continued to watch the video repeatedly for years.