Joseph Savino would serve as the councilman at-large for the Bronx from 1977 to 1983, when a federal court ruled the office unconstitutional.
[1] The Savino family would live in Morris Park but spend most of their Summers and Winters at City Island.
[1] Savino earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Iona College and his Juris Doctor from the City University of New York.
He also served as recording secretary and counsel for the Bronx Columbus Day Parades Committee, as a long-standing member of the Throggs Neck Volunteer Ambulance Corps Board of Directors, and on the T.N.V.A.C.
On April 2, 2013, along with New York State Senator Malcolm A. Smith (D), New York City Councilman Dan Halloran (R), Queens Republican Party Vice Chairman Vincent Tabone, Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, and Spring Valley Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret, Savino was arrested on corruption charges alleging that he accepted bribes in a complex scheme related to fixing the Republican nomination for the Mayor of New York City.