Design Firms' Ex-Execs Get Jail in Pay-to-Play Schemes
James McClung, a former senior vice president of engineer Louis Berger, Morristown, N.J., and William Birdsall, ex-senior vice president of the now defunct Birdsall Services Group, Monmouth County, N.J., earlier this month received jail sentences in separate New Jersey courts related to their roles in unrelated bribe schemes of contracting officials.
McClung, 60, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Trenton to one year in prison for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribing officials in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait to win contracts for the firm, from which the Dubai-based executive was terminated in 2012.