The Jersey Sting: A True Story of Crooked Pols, Money-Laundering Rabbis, Black Market Kidneys, and the Informant Who Brought It All Down

by Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman

Book Overview

In the summer of 2009 the blog Gawker stated "Everybody in New Jersey Was Arrested Yesterday." Now for the first time, the real story behind the biggest corruption bust in New Jersey's notoriously corrupt history Among the forty-four people arrested in July 2009 were three mayors, five Orthodox rabbis, two state legislators, and the flamboyant deputy mayor of Jersey City, Leona Beldini, once a stripper using the stage name "Hope Diamond." At the center...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312654170
• ISBN13: 9780312654177
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"