Steven Hatfill has settled his claims against the Federal Government and the FBI for the sum of $2.825 million, CNN reports.

Hatfill, a former Army bioweapons researcher, has steadfastly denied involvement in the attacks and was never charged in the investigation.

In a statement released Friday afternoon, department officials said Steven Hatfill will receive a one-time payment of $2.825 million and a $150,000 annuity.

For all intents and purposes, this investigation is over. Seven years after the attacks and the FBI is no closer to determining who committed those murders than they were then.

The FBI has let us down. By focusing on Hatfill to the exclusion of other potential suspects, and by excluding state-sponsored terror from the very beginning, they failed to conduct a proper investigation. This was a case that any rookie detective could have followed procedure and process and investigated.

Instead we got leak after leak that was flat out wrong. We got a focus on one person, an abusive and punitive investigation that was leaked at every step to the media. Steven Hatfill was tried by media when the FBI was unable to discover any evidence linking him to the attacks.

Hatfill is not the only person ruined by the FBI in this botched investigation. Kenneth Berry lost everything and the FBI came up with zilch.

I wonder how the families of the five people murdered in these attack feel tonight? Where is their justice? Can the FBI explain to them why no one is in jail?