| Two Former FDNY Officials
Indicted for Bribes Cordasco Pled
Sealed Letter US Asks 42 Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 24 – Amid the scandals
swirling around NYC Mayor Eric
Adams and his inner circle, on
September 16 SDNY US Attorney
Damian Williams announced two
indictments, limited to the
FDNY.
"Anthony
Saccavino and Brian Cordasco,
two former chiefs of the New
York City Fire Department
Bureau of Fire Prevention, are
charged with bribery,
corruption, and false
statements offenses… in
connection with a scheme to
solicit and accept tens of
thousands of dollars in bribe
payments in exchange for
providing preferential
treatment to certain
individuals and companies with
matters pending before the
BFP."
At a press
conference in 26 Federal
Plaza, Williams declined to
comment on requests to City
Hall; he said one Henry
Santiago Jr. is cooperation in
this
investigation.
Inner City Press
covered the presentment, then
separate arraignment
On October
2, Judge Liman set a change of
plea proceeding for Brian
Cordasco on October 8 at 10
am.
Inner City Press
went to and live tweeted the
guilty plea - while another
City Hall arrest was
announced. Thread
On December 17
there was to be a conference
on Saccavino. But the
courtroom door was locked and
later the US Attorney's Office
put in a letter that it had
been adjourned - as defense
counsel's request - and
proposing it be rescheduled
for January 8, 2025.
On January 10,
Saccavino was present with a
new lawyer. The AUSA said they
anticipate a guilty plea, or
want a trial. Judge Liman set
the latter for May 5.
On January 29
ANTHONY SACCAVINO pled guilty
to conspiring to solicit and
receive bribes in his role as
Chief of the FDNY Bureau of
Fire Prevention SACCAVINO is
scheduled to be sentenced on
May 14, 2025."
For Cordasco's
March 31 sentencing, on March
17 his lawyer filed asking for
one year home confinement -
with each and every sentencing
letter withheld in full, as it
was by OneCoin defendant Karl
Sebastian Greenwood before
Judge Ramos, appeal heard by
2nd Circuit Judges Nathan,
Park and Parker earlier on
March 17.
On March 24 the
US Attorney's Office wrote in,
silent as they were in US v.
Greenwood on the mass sealing
of sentencing letters, asking
for 42 months. Watch this
site.
More / analysis
on X for Subscribers here
and on Substack here
Inner City Press
is on the case(s). Watch this
site.
This case
is US v. Saccavino, et al.,
24-cr-537 (Liman)
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