{"id":10655,"date":"2013-09-23T21:34:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/?p=10655"},"modified":"2017-09-01T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T19:56:33","slug":"former-san-antonio-official-fernando-de-leon-faces-federal-charges-in-alleged-bribery-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johntedesco.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/23\/former-san-antonio-official-fernando-de-leon-faces-federal-charges-in-alleged-bribery-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Former San Antonio official Fernando De Leon faces federal charges in alleged bribery scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/fernando1.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando De Leon, assistant director of land development for the city of San Antonio\" width=\"189\" height=\"157\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5169\" \/>In March 2010, San Antonio police detectives and FBI agents visited the city&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>One of the officials who signed off on those permits was Fernando De Le\u00f3n, the department&#8217;s friendly, soft-spoken assistant director. Investigators headed to his office. De Le\u00f3n wasn&#8217;t there, but they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/article\/S-A-official-tied-to-permit-firm-4828157.php\" title=\"Authorities investigate Fernando De Leon in San Antonio\" target=\"_blank\">seized his computer and files<\/a>. City Manager Sheryl Sculley later fired him, but De Le\u00f3n wasn&#8217;t arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Until last week.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/798195-federal-indictment-against-fernando-deleon.html\" title=\"Federal indictment against Fernando De Leon\" target=\"_blank\">federal indictment<\/a> made public Thursday sheds light on the case against De Le\u00f3n. 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:<\/p>\n<li>Authorities were scrutinizing De Le\u00f3n and a permit-expediting company called Rapid Permit Services. Federal officials subpoenaed records at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pape-dawson.com\/\">Pape-Dawson Engineers Inc.<\/a>, one of the largest engineering firms in town, to gather information about Rapid Permit Services and possibly others. Pape-Dawson was not the target of the inquiry;<\/li>\n<li>Rapid Permit Services got a plum job at the Rim, an 800-acre shopping center;<\/li>\n<li>De Le\u00f3n reviewed and approved some of the paperwork for the Rim that had been filed by Rapid Permit Services;<\/li>\n<li>De Le\u00f3n&#8217;s sister and possibly his mother were tied to Rapid Permit Services;<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>At Pape-Dawson, the point of contact for Rapid Permit Services was a project manager named Oscar Rodriguez.<\/li>\n<p>For the first time, the indictment lays out the actual allegations against De Le\u00f3n, and describes how he is accused of teaming up with Rodriguez to defraud Pape-Dawson and the firm&#8217;s clients.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/default\/article\/Federal-grand-jury-indicts-former-San-Antonio-4827809.php\" title=\"Federal grand jury indicts Fernando De Leon\" target=\"_blank\">the most recent story here<\/a>, and if you want to learn more, here are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johntedesco.net\/blog\/tag\/fernando-de-leon\/\" title=\"Blog posts about Fernando De Leon\" target=\"_blank\">past posts<\/a> about the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2010, San Antonio police detectives and FBI agents visited the city&#8217;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. 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