Think this is another story based on New Jersey informants, prosecutors, politics, and corruption – corruption stimulated by individuals' greed for money and power? Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, a joint project of Rutgers School of Law-Newark and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, says James Finckenauer, in a review, thinks there's somthing different about this story.
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BY CARL HARTMAN FOR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 23, 2011 (AP)
It was like a small military undertaking when the FBI deployed over 300 agents in eastern New Jersey and the New York borough of Brooklyn early one July morning in 2009.
They captured 44 people, including five rabbis. Most were accused of political bribery, money laundering and tax evasion. One was charged with trafficking in human kidneys.
The story of "The Jersey Sting" is meticulously, seriously — and humorously — told by Ted Sherman and Josh Margolin...
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The Star-Ledger Book Review
The Jersey Sting
Reviewed by Kathleen Daley

Two very good reporters at The Star-Ledger have done this state — and the whole country, for that matter — a great service. They have pulled together documents, transcripts from FBI surveillance tapes and interviews to tell a riveting story of public and private corruption that rivals any fictional crime novel on the shelves.
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A vivid law-enforcement procedural with a larger-than-life central character...
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