A federal judge has approved a settlement by which a former board member of Tyco International Ltd. will pay $5.6 million to settle claims that New Jersey pension funds lost more than $100 million because of securities fraud.

New Jersey charged that Frank Walsh Jr. took a $20 million payment from Tyco, without disclosure to shareholders or other board members, for helping arrange the Princeton corporation’s 2001 purchase of The CIT Group.

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