SMITHTOWN - A Bayport contractor faces new charges of bribery, money laundering and conspiracy in a new indictment from the Suffolk district attorney’s investigation of the Town of Smithtown Building Department.

Robert Fitzpatrick pled not guilty to the six count indictment Tuesday in Suffolk County Court. 

According to the indictment, Fitzpatrick, of 64 Browns River Road, is alleged to have acted in concert with developer Frank Esposito in bribing former town building inspector Robert Bonerba in 2003 to expedite the construction of a home on Pierson Street in Nissequogue. 

Esposito, 72, of 5 Pine Point in Nissequogue, pleaded guilty March 31 to bribery and is cooperating with the ongoing investigation.

Fitzpatrick, 55, is charged with third degree bribery, a class “D” felony punishable by a maximum of two and one-third to seven years imprisonment,  and third degree money laundering, fourth degree conspiracy, and three counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, each a class “E’” felony punishable by up to four years in prison.