Ex-Florida building official on leave at new job after damning condo report

The former Surfside, Fla., top building official — who said in 2018 that the condo that partially collapsed last week was structurally sound — has been put on leave from his current job as a government contractor after a damning engineering report came to light.

The city of Doral, Fla. said Rosendo Prieto is taking a leave from CAP Government Inc, which provides building department services to governments, according to The Miami Herald. The contractor confirmed Prieto’s leave Tuesday, and did not specify if it was voluntary, the newspaper reported.