In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, Glenn Beck launched a crusade to prove that the United States government was covering up what “really” happened during the terrorist attack.

According to Beck, Abdulrahman Alharbi, a Saudi Arabian student who was injured in the bombing, was not simply a victim but was really an al Qaeda “control agent” who had recruited the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the attack. Though Alharbi had briefly been considered a person of interest in the early part of the investigation, he was quickly cleared by investigators. But Beck nevertheless spent days accusing Alharbi of having played a direct role in organizing the bombing and accusing anyone who didn’t believe him of having been duped by a government conspiracy to cover up Alharbi’s involvement.

Eventually, Beck’s entire conspiracy theory collapsed when one of his own experts told him that his theory “doesn’t make sense,” but that didn’t stop Beck from continuing to assert that Alharbi was the “money man” behind the bombing.

In 2014, Alharbi sued Beck for slander and defamation and Beck has been fighting the lawsuit tooth and nail. When the federal judge overseeing the case ruled last month that Beck and his company must reveal the names of the confidential sources upon whom they relied in leveling the unfounded accusations against Alharbi, Beck vowed to go to jail rather than do so.

But it seems that Beck’s grandstanding was all for show, as yesterday, he agreed to settle the lawsuit with Alharbi for an undisclosed amount: