Jason Miller

June, 1973

He doesn't Tell anyone but close friends and associates where he lives; he can't afford to. As United States Attorney for the New Jersey District. Herbert Stern's task is to prosecute corrupt public officials. For more than half a century, he says, the Garden State has had "the most notorious graft in the U. S., extracting ten percent from anyone who sought to do business here." By the late Sixties, says Stern, "the feeling was that everything in City Hall had a price on it. The c...