The Federal Bureau of Investigation has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a lawsuit brought against it by female recruits who were kicked out of the training academy and subject to sexual harassment.

The FBI has agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors with sexually charged comments about their breast size,

Sexual discrimination allegations from the Quantico training facility have caused the bureau to agree to one of the largest settlements on its record.

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay $22.6 million to settle a lawsuit by 34 women who claim they were wrongly dismissed from the FBI's agent training academy because of their sex, according to a court filing on Monday.

"These problems are pervasive within the FBI and the attitudes that created them were learned at the academy," said David J. Shaffer, the lawyer for the women.

The payout to 34 women dismissed from the FBI's training academy in Quantico, Va., is still subject to approval by a federal judge.

FBI agrees to pay $22 million to settle claims of sexual discrimination at its training academy.

The FBI agreed Monday to pay more than $22 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging female recruits were singled out for dismissal in training and routinely harassed by instructors