Four months into the state-ordered shutdown of hundreds of millions of dollars of road and rail projects in New Jersey amid political bickering over funding, owners, contractors and workers scramble for solutions to salvage a fast-disappearing construction season.
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.