F.B.I. brokers early Thursday searched the properties of two senior New York Hearth Division chiefs answerable for overseeing security inspections whereas metropolis investigators additionally searched the chiefs’ places of work on the company’s headquarters in Brooklyn, folks with data of the matter stated.
The corruption investigation by the bureau, federal prosecutors in Manhattan and town’s Division of Investigation started late in the summertime and was initially centered on whether or not the chiefs had been paid almost $100,000 every in a scheme to assist expedite or prepare inspections, a number of of the folks stated.
There was no instant indication that the searches have been a part of a broad federal corruption investigation centered on Mayor Eric Adams and fund-raising for his 2021 marketing campaign, though spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the U.S. legal professional’s workplace in Manhattan declined to remark. A spokeswoman for the Division of Investigation couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Neither of the chiefs, Brian Cordasco and Anthony Saccavino, has been accused of wrongdoing.
The Hearth Division, which positioned each males on modified responsibility, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
A person standing contained in the door of Mr. Cordasco’s residence on Staten Island declined to remark Thursday morning and advised a reporter to name his lawyer, although he didn’t say who was representing him. Mr. Saccavino couldn’t instantly be reached for remark. It couldn’t be instantly decided if both man had a lawyer.
As of earlier this 12 months, the investigation was analyzing, at the least partially, whether or not a retired firefighter made the funds as a part of an effort to assist expedite or affect hearth inspections on constructing initiatives, a number of the folks stated.
