Bradley Beach Woman Second to Plead Guilty at Monmouth Engineering Firm
Woman charged with hiding Birdsall's political contributions as personal contributions, a violation of Pay-to-Play laws
A Bradley Beach woman is the second employee of Birdsall Engineering to plead guilty to a scheme that skirted the state's Pay-to-Play Act, officials said. The woman disguised illegal corporate political contributions as personal contributions of employees of the firm, a large Monmouth County-based engineering firm that in the past has held contracts for Belmar, Toms River and elsewhere, according to state Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa's office. The scheme allegedly allowed the firm to fraudulently avoid the restrictions of New Jersey’s Pay-to-Play Act, said the state attorney general in a news release today. Eileen Kufahl, 48, of Bradley Beach, pleaded guilty Feb. 12 to making prohibited corporation contributions through employees, a …
