San Francisco’s building corruption saga has claimed another veteran insider. Rodolfo Pada, a former plan checker at the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, was sentenced last Friday to a year and a day in federal prison after admitting he took roughly $40,000 in bribes to speed approvals and sign off on construction work. The 70-year-old pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge in December 2023 and has since cooperated with investigators. His case is one strand in the sprawling federal probe that kicked off with the 2020 arrest of former Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru.
Sentence, plea and what prosecutors say he did
U.S. prosecutors pushed for prison time, arguing that Pada’s rubber-stamped approvals jeopardized the safety and…..