{"id":9015,"date":"2025-05-15T03:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2025-05-15T03:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:37:01","slug":"ex-fdny-chief-gets-3-years-for-taking-bribes-to-fast-track-safety-inspections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=9015","title":{"rendered":"Ex-FDNY chief gets 3 years for taking bribes to fast-track safety inspections"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW YORK — <\/span>A former New York City Fire Department chief was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to fast-track fire safety inspections at restaurants, hotels and other city businesses. <\/p>\n

Anthony Saccavino, 61, pleaded guilty<\/a> in January to running the scheme while heading the department\u2019s Bureau of Fire Prevention, which regulates the installation of fire safety and suppression systems in New York City. <\/p>\n

With the help of another chief, Brian Cordasco, Saccavino solicited and received $190,000 in bribe payments between 2021 and 2023, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n

\u201cChief Saccavino led a pay-to-play bribery scheme that would offend the sensibilities of every hard-working New Yorker,\u201d Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement. <\/p>\n

A retired firefighter who ran an unsanctioned \u201cexpediting\u201d business acted as the intermediary for the more than 30 projects that benefited from the accelerated reviews.<\/p>\n

Saccavino was arrested in September alongside Cordasco, who also pleaded guilty and was sentenced<\/a> in March to 20 months in prison. <\/p>\n

Their arrests came days before the criminal indictment of Mayor Eric Adams on bribery charges<\/a> that included allegations he sped up fire safety inspections at the Turkish consulate in exchange for illegal contributions. Adams has denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

The case against the mayor, which was later ordered dropped by the Trump administration, was unrelated to the fire chiefs\u2019 bribery scandal. <\/p>\n

On top of his prison term, Saccavino was ordered to pay a $150,000 fine and to return $57,000 that he personally pocketed in bribes, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

His attorney did not respond to phone call requesting comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — A former New York City Fire Department chief was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to fast-track fire safety inspections at restaurants, hotels and other city businesses. Anthony Saccavino, 61, pleaded guilty in January to running the scheme while heading the department\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9017,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}