This reads like such a recursive mess of "why is that any of anyone else's business" that I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone involved.
A person merges their duplex. Peskin blocks it using his position on the neighborhood board. Peskin then acquires the now illegal single family home at a large discount. Peskin, a city official, then manages to get a permit for the exact thing that he had blocked not three years earlier.
Grand Jury -> Indictment -> Trial -> Peskin goes to prison.