Former contractor Louis Ciminelli pleads to one count of wire fraud, was ordered to forfeit $1.6 million and paid a $250,000 fine, with two N.Y. developers and a former state academic chief also agreeing to deal.
Former senior vice presidents of engineer Louis Berger and now defunct Birdsall Services Group, were sentenced earlier this month in New Jersey courts related to their roles in unrelated bribe schemes of contracting officials.
Howard Birdsall, who, as founder and former CEO of now-defunct Birdsall Services Group, presided over a $1-
million scheme in New Jersey that illegally funneled political donations through employees, was sentenced on April 22 to four years in state prison.
Ex-Executive VP Thomas Rospos of now-defunct Birdsall Services Group takes third-degree plea on Feb. 25 as his trial began in $1-milion scheme; ex-CEO Howard Birdsall pleaded guilty on Feb. 18.
