Overview

• Brian Cordasco, former chief of the FDNY Bureau of Fire Prevention, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for accepting bribes to prioritize fire safety inspections.
• Cordasco was ordered to pay a $100,000 fine, forfeit $57,000, and serve two years of supervised release following his prison term.
• The bribery scheme, which operated from 2021 to 2023, involved over $190,000 and exploited a pandemic-related backlog in inspections.
• Anthony Saccavino, another former FDNY chief implicated in the scheme, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is set to be sentenced on May 14, 2025.
• The sentencing judge criticized Cordasco for betraying public trust and emphasized the need to deter such opportunistic crimes in public institutions.