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Birdsall CEO who got 4 years for corruption released after 6 months

assetcontent-67TRENTON — Howard Birdsall, the former CEO of an influential engineering firm who admitted flouting state campaign finance laws to funnel illegal donations to politicians, was released from prison six months into his four-year sentence, NJ Advance Media has learned. Birdsall pleaded guilty this year to second-degree misconduct by a corporate official after investigators found executives…

Posted: November 18th, 2016 | Author: | Filed under: Monmouth County News | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

One Comment on “Birdsall CEO who got 4 years for corruption released after 6 months”

  1. All well and good said at 10:28 am on November 18th, 2016:

    that they got punished for giving too much money, statewide: however, isn’t it rather disingenuous, that the dozens of officials/ candidates/ parties who received those contributions, weren’t made to give them back? Also, look at all the decent employees who became unemployed and had to scramble for work,and,upend their families, in many cases. And, ironically, the firm did very good work,over the years, and had to compete for many of the jobs they had received. In the end, the whole thing was a rather sad chapter, but certainly not the last, in NJ political history.