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.
A Tennessee road and bridge builder has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that accused the firm of fraud by putting its own employees on the payroll of a disadvantaged business enterprise it used to get contracts for 12 projects in Tennessee.
Three groups of U.K. construction workers have secured compensation for losses caused by an unlawful blacklist used by leading contractors for years, starting in the mid-1990s (ENR 10/19/15 p. 7).
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.
Brazil’s current government and its largest contractor are trying to survive the latest episode in the country’s long-running construction bribery scandal.