Howard Birdsall

Howard Birdsall of Brielle, the former Chief Executive Officer and chief shareholder of the defunct engineering firm that bore his name, is sentenced to four years in state prison in connection with the scheme that funneled corporate political contributions and circumvented New Jersey's pay-to-play laws.

Howard Birdsall, the onetime Chief Executive Officer of the Monmouth County-based Birdsall Services Group (BSG) engineering firm, faces a possible four years in prison after admitting his role in a million-dollar pay-to-play arrangement uncovered by New Jersey investigators.