A former San Francisco plan checker who admitted to accepting $40,000 in bribes to rubber-stamp building plans was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison.
Rodolfo Pada, 70, pleaded guilty in December 2023 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was among a slew of businessmen, developers and city bureaucrats swept up in a federal anti-corruption probe that began in 2020.
After prosecutors honed in on the former plan checker, Pada told investigators about dozens of people “who were or may have been participating in construction permit related improprieties, including inappropriate gifts/meals and outright bribes,” according to a memo Pada’s attorney filed on his behalf before his sentencing. His assistance led to charges against three San Francisco developers and a contractor in Millbrae, court records show…