Bryan Azevedo, the San Leandro city councilman recently charged in a federal corruption probe last week, may be nearing a plea deal, federal prosecutors have signaled.

The two-term councilmember is “close to reaching a resolution of his case,” which accused him of accepting a $2,000 cash bribe and a cut of future earnings from a fledgling housing business that had been seeking a lucrative city contract, federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing on Tuesday.

As a result, there likely “won’t be any substantive hearings until a potential change of plea or sentencing hearing” in Azevedo’s case, federal prosecutors added. Attempts by this news organization to reach him late Wednesday were not successful.

The revelation comes just a week after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern Dist

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