The book, just out this week. is already earning a number of positive reviews. In a book review in The Star Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey, Richard Aregood writes:

Herb Stern knows better than anybody. As U.S. attorney, he led a series of prosecutions in the late 1960s and early 1970s that ended in criminal convictions for the mayors of Jersey City, Newark and Atlantic City, along with a congressman and what seemed at the time to be half the politicians in the state, exposing some as being wholly owned subsidiaries of the mob. All of this was done despite the fierce opposition of powerful state officials, as well as the Nixon Justice Department's preference for silly political prosecutions such as that of the "Camden 28."

Jeffrey Toobin writes:

Herbert J. Stern- prosecutor, judge and advocate- is a legend in American law, and this extraordinary memoir tells the story of how  he became one.

Judge Stern served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey 1971-1974. In 1962-1965, he served as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, participating in the investigation of the assassination of Malcolm X. He also served in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. He was appointed by President Nixon to serve on the U.S. District Court in the district of New Jersey, serving from 1974-1987. He has authored several books on trial advocacy and Judgment in Berlin, later made into a film.

Judge Stern is a partner and founding member of Stern & Kilcullen. He earned his J.D. from the Universtiy of Chicago Law School.

After a Miami doctor was unsuccessfully prosecuted in a drug case, his petition for legal fees under the Hyde Amendment was granted by the district court. The Eleventh Circuit, however, reversed and held that the prosecution was "objectively reasonable." The doctor has applied to the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari.

On August 9, 2012, a coalititon of more than 50 former federal judges, federal proscutors and members of Congress filed an amicus brief on behalf of the doctor attacking the the appellate decision which held that monetary fees are only available under the the Hyde Amendment in situations in which a prosecution itself is deemed unreasonable.

Read a full report in The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times, which includes a link to the amicus brief with a full list of the amici, including many members of NAFUSA.

NAFUSA member John C. Richter, formerly vice president and deputy general counsel at WellCare Health Plans, Inc., is rejoining King & Spalding as a partner in its special matters and government investigations practice in Washington, D.C., effective September 4, 2012. Richter will focus primarily on health care investigations and qui tam cases.

Richter's return to King & Spalding follows his two-year stint at WellCare supervising litigation, internal investigations and business contracting at the $6 billion provider of managed care services targeted to government-sponsored health care programs. At WellCare, he led the successful resolution of enterprise-threatening criminal and civil matters the company had been facing.

Richter served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, 2005-2009, and the acting assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2009, he received the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Inspector General's Award for Combating Medicare and Medicaid Fraud.

Richter also served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Georgia and Oklahoma, where he investigated and prosecuted white collar and public corruption cases. He also served as an assistant district attorney in Georgia. While at King & Spalding's Atlanta office from 1994 to 1998, Richter represented individual and institutional clients in securities and other commercial litigation matters. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.

King & Spalding is an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 800 lawyers in 17 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm has handled matters in over 160 countries on six continents.