The state attorney general seized the assets of one of New Jersey’s largest engineering firms, Birdsall Services Group, at the same time the company and seven executives were indicted.
The Eatontown-based company as well as seven current and former executives and shareholders, including the retired chief executive, Howard Birdsall, were indicted for illegally financing the campaigns of the same public officials who have awarded them millions of dollars in public contracts.
The Eatontown-based company as well as seven current and former executives and shareholders, including the retired chief executive, Howard Birdsall, were indicted for illegally financing the campaigns of the same public officials who have awarded them millions of dollars in public contracts.
Birdsall was the official Engineers for Lakewood Township, as well as being granted numerous projects. They were major contributors to the Campaigns of Robert Singer who was on the Township Committe at the time they were appointed.
State authorities charge that over six years, the company and its senior executives disguised more than $686,000 in contributions by asking employees to write checks of $300 or less, which do not have to be reported to the state, and then illegally reimbursing them through added bonuses.
State authorities charge that over six years, the company and its senior executives disguised more than $686,000 in contributions by asking employees to write checks of $300 or less, which do not have to be reported to the state, and then illegally reimbursing them through added bonuses.
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