Anthony Saccavino has been sentenced to 36 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to solicit and receive bribes in his role as the chief of the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Fire Prevention.
Saccavino previously pled guilty on January 29, 2025, before U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman, who also imposed today’s sentence.
According to the Indictment, plea agreement, and statements made in court, from 2021 to 2023, Saccavino was the leader of a conspiracy to solicit and receive $190,000 in total bribe payments from a former FDNY firefighter named Henry Santiago, Jr.
In exchange for those bribe payments, Saccavino and another high-ranking official at the FDNY, Brian Cordasco, used their authority within the BFP to improperly “expedite” BFP inspections and plan reviews for Santiago’s customers.
Saccavino personally profited $57,000 as part of this scheme.
To carry out this conspiracy, Saccavino lied to his BFP subordinates to justify otherwise improper expediting requests.
Saccavino also lied to law enforcement when interviewed about his involvement in the scheme.
In addition to the prison term, Saccavino, 61, of New York, New York, was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a forfeiture of $57,000 and a fine of $150,000.
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