That experience landed him in the crosshairs of a federal investigation headed by an aggressive U.S. Attorney, Chris Christie, who would become the Governor of New Jersey. Eric was briefly outside counsel to an investment group and resigned after his efforts to investigate certain matters were thwarted. His hunches about wrongdoing were correct and insiders at the company would eventually plead guilty. However, despite Eric being labeled as “an obstacle to the fraud,” by the ringleader of the scheme, he spent years under investigation by federal authorities who wanted his cooperation. In the end, Eric was never sued, never charged, but endured several years of living under the microscope of a federal investigation. Today, he shares the experiences of a being a lawyer and a target of a federal investigation.