Two former city housing inspectors were sentenced to prison terms for taking more than $41,000 in bribes to scrub housing violations from property records, the Department of Investigation said July 16.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Marcy L. Kahn sentenced Luis Soto, 52, last week to serve from 2½ to 7½ years in prison. He pleaded guilty May 7 to accepting bribes of as much as $2,500 per property to remove code violations over a three-month period last year. One property owner paid Mr. Soto, formerly a Supervising Code Enforcement Inspector, about $20,000 to remove 476 violations at 13 separate properties, the DOI said.
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