A federal court judge in Pennsylvania dismissed Pete Rose's defamation lawsuit against John Dowd Friday after the two sides reached an agreement prior to Rose being deposed.
Statements from Dowd's lawyer David Tobin and Rose's lawyer Martin Garbus said: "Pete Rose and John Dowd have agreed, based on mutual consideration, to the dismissal with prejudice of Mr. Rose's lawsuit against Mr. Dowd. I am not permitted to comment further regarding the resolution of the matter."
Rose sued over Dowd's assertions on the radio in 2015 that Rose had committed statutory rape decades earlier.
Dowd, the former Major League Baseball special counsel who ran its 1989 probe that led to Rose's banishment, after concluding the then-Cincinnati Reds manager had bet on baseball, now heads President Donald Trump's personal legal defense team for the Russia investigation.