A ranking New York City government official enmeshed in a corruption scandal last year is scheduled to plea guilty on Friday to charges connected to the bribery scheme.
Wendell Walters, who held a senior post in the City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, was arrested by FBI agents in October and charged with pocketing $600,000 in bribes in exchange for directing tens of millions of dollars worth of affordable-housing building contracts to property developers, authorities said.
Walters served as the agency’s Assistant Housing Commissioner for New Construction,
Brooklyn federal prosecutors have charged him with conspiracy, bribery, and racketeering charges.