A Long Island attorney and his client will receive a $1.3 million settlement from a lawsuit that includes multiple defendants, including former Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, to resolve claims that they were targeted in a “pay to prosecute scheme/conspiracy.”

According to court papers, attorney Robert Del Col of Smithtown and his client, Leftheris Doukas, will get $650,000 apiece for the civil rights action they filed against Rice and others in her office, as well as DataTreasury, a patent holder of remote check processing technology, and several of its officials.

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