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 ...

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 ...

Melinda Abbt, a former firefighter, sued the city after she became aware that a then-colleague had taken an intimate video from her laptop in 2008 and shared it with a now-retired chief. " ...

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.

Recently retired firefighter Chris Barrientes was found liable for sharing an intimate video of Melinda Abbt in 2008. But Barrientes could not be terminated because of the current law, which says ...

Houston City Council was set to approve an $850,000 sexual misconduct settlement for former department employee Melinda Abbt ... apologized to Abbt, whose fellow firefighter Chris Barrientes ...

Melinda Abbt worked at Houston’s Station 18 in the East End with Chris Barrientes. In 2008 while Abbt was on a call, Barrientes took an intimate video from Abbt’s computer and not only watched ...

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.