Former NYC Buildings inspector pleads guilty to extortion
A former inspector for the New York City Buildings Department pled guilty Monday in federal court in Brooklyn to extortion after he used his power to threaten contractors, and lead them to pay a contracting company he silently co-owned.
Massimo Dabusco, a Napoli, Italy native, pled guilty to one count of extortion after he told contractors that they were in violation of Buildings Department codes and issued stop work orders. He would then advise them to use A&G Contracting Group, to which he was a silent owner, to amend their fake violations. The interactions took place between Dec. 2013 to June 2015.
Dabusco, 55, read a personal statement through thin-framed glasses to Chief Judge Dora L. Irizarry in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.