A 15-member panel that examined misogyny and other issues related to the culture of New Jersey politics recommends a series of changes in a 76-page report.
More than $68 million was spent on lobbying in Trenton last year, down a bit from 2015 but the third-highest level on record, according to new annual reports.
The brother of Birdsall Services Group founder/CEO Howard Birdsall becomes the fourth executive of the defunct engineering firm to admit a role in channeling more than $1,000,000 in political contributions in disregard of New Jersey's pay-to-play laws.
The former CEO of one of New Jersey's most powerful engineering firms and six other executives are under indictment, charged with conspiring to sidestep the state's Pay-to-Play Act by using company employees as straw donors to political campaigns, and getting millions in lucrative government contracts in return.
The former executive vice-president of Middletown-based Birdsall Services Group engineering firm risks five to 10 years in prison on conviction for each of four second-degree charges stemming from a probe of alleged violations of New Jersey's pay to play laws.