BROOKLYN — An FDNY fire prevention inspector was arrested Monday after he gave an undercover investigator $300 in a get-well card to have a stop work order swept under the rug, according to the Department of Investigation.
Angelo Young, 47, flashed his badge after getting a Department of Buildings violation on Aug. 30 for doing un-permitted construction on his Marine Park home, officials said.
The department then alerted DOI, who had an undercover investigator posing as a DOB inspector speak with Young the following day and tell him the violation had not yet been entered into their system, officials said.
The two then met up on Sept. 2 at 65th and West Sixth streets near Young’s office. The FDNY worker told the undercover investigator during the meeting that he “squashes summonses” and “requested courtesy” as a fellow inspector, DOI investigators said.
Then about 20 days later he again met the undercover investigator in a coffee shop and promised $300 for not processing the violation.
On Sept. 26, Young had an unidentified passenger in his car give the undercover inspector a greeting card — which read on the front, “Hope the special get-well thoughts and prayers this brings your way...” — with three $100 bills inside.
“Flashing a FDNY shield; offering cash to avoid a building violation — these are acts that will result in only one thing: criminal charges,” DOI Commissioner Mark Peters said in a statement. “There is no tolerance for anyone circumventing New York City’s construction rules, thereby diminishing everyone’s safety.”
Young worked as an inspector with the FDNY for more than six years and made $50,507 annually, according to the DOI.
He was suspended by the department after his arrest on Monday, officials said.
Young is facing up to seven years in prison on felony bribery charges.
He was expected to be arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court Monday night.
There was no immediate information on his lawyer.
