[ClearCase_guy]

We used to be a High Trust society.
We used to laugh at other countries with corrupt officials.
We used to be better than this.

[Liz]

Town Building Inspector Ryan Benitez, 37, and his senior office assistant, Evelyn Calderon, 46, pocketed more than $16,000 from four unnamed contractors so that the builders could sidestep the months-long approval process and have their permits and certificates of occupancy secretly fast-tracked, Suffolk County prosecutors claimed.