A California firm has completed its acquisition of a New Jersey engineering company that recently admitted making illegal campaign contributions.

Birdsall Services Group (Facebook)
Birdsall Services Group (Facebook)
Birdsall Services Group (Facebook)

The sale of Birdsall Services Group to Torrance-based Partner Engineering and Science was finalized Friday. It paid $5.6 million for most of Birdsall's assets.

The sale was formally approved this month in U.S. Bankruptcy court.

The closing came less than a week after Eatontown-based Birdsall entered guilty pleas in state Superior Court to charges of money laundering and making false representations for government contracts. It was fined $1 million and banned from working on government contracts in the state for 10 years.

Seven former top Birdsall executives still face charges of conspiring to avoid the state's pay-to-play law by disguising illegal corporate political contributions as personal contributions of employees.

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