In March 2010, San Antonio police detectives and FBI agents visited the city’s Planning and Development Services Department, the place where real estate projects go to live or die based on whether the necessary permits are approved.
One of the officials who signed off on those permits was Fernando De León, the department’s friendly, soft-spoken assistant director. Investigators headed to his office. De León wasn’t there, but they seized his computer and files. City Manager Sheryl Sculley later fired him, but De León wasn’t arrested.
Until last week.
A federal indictment made public Thursday sheds light on the case against De León. Longtime readers of the Express-News might remember some of the details we had discovered about the case through public records and lots of digging:
For the first time, the indictment lays out the actual allegations against De León, and describes how he is accused of teaming up with Rodriguez to defraud Pape-Dawson and the firm’s clients.
Check out the most recent story here, and if you want to learn more, here are past posts about the case.