On May 14, 2025, Anthony Saccavino — a retired Chief of the FDNY Bureau of Fire Prevention in New York City, earning $263,478 in annual city salary at the time of the offenses — was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison, fined $150,000, and ordered to forfeit $57,000 in personal bribery proceeds after pleading guilty in January 2025 in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to conspiracy charges stemming from a pay-to-play bribery scheme that corrupted the city's fire safety inspection queue between 2021 and 2023. Saccavino and his codefendant Brian Cordasco, a retired FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief sentenced to 20 months, accepted at least $190,000 in total bribes from Henry Santiago Jr., a retired firefighter who ran an unsanctioned expediting business, in exchange for moving approximately 30 commercial and residential building projects — apartments, restaurants, and hotels — to the front of the bureau's inspection backlog. The scheme was uncovered after internal FDNY administrators flagged irregularities to the city's Department of Investigation, prompting a joint probe with the FBI New York Field Office that resulted in home raids in February 2023; both chiefs subsequently lied to federal investigators, adding false-statement charges to the original September 2024 indictment. Among the projects that waited in the queue while bribed files skipped the line was a 47-unit affordable housing building in the Bronx whose developer had no connection to Santiago and whose fire suppression system sat unreviewed for eleven additional months.