Les is a graduate of the University of Maryland (BA) and New Jersey City University (BS). He began his law enforcement career with the United States Postal Inspection Service and held assignments in Washington, DC, New York, NY and Richmond, VA, retiring in 2000 after 27 years as a federal agent.

During his career, Les was a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force, headquartered in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of NY. He also conducted numerous successful investigations into bombings, robberies, burglaries, theft, fraud, extortion, and child exploitation. He was certified and provided expert witness testimony in United States District Court and state court during both explosives and child exploitation trials.

Les accepted an appointment in 2000 as the first Criminal Investigator in the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia’s newly formed Computer Crime Section. Here, he investigated computer crimes in several landmark cases for the Commonwealth. While with the Attorney General’s Office he prepared and delivered many lectures on digital evidence, identity theft, cyber-crimes and child exploitation including at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Virginia Commonwealth University, NW3C Global Conference on Economic & High Tech Crime, US Attorneys’ Conferences including Project Safe Childhood, US Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference, University of Virginia Cyber Crime Conference, Intelligence Support Systems for Lawful Intercept & Internet Surveillance World Conferences, Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ Conferences, Virginia Magistrates Training Conference, Richmond Bar Association Bench Bar Conference, Virginia Association of Campus Law Enforcement Conferences, FBI Richmond Division In-Service Training, Virginia Library Association Paraprofessional Forum and Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association Conference, among others.

Les was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Richmond from 2003 until 2009, where he developed, prepared, and delivered undergraduate classes in Cyber Crimes and Computer Forensics, in-person and online via the University’s intranet (Blackboard) platform.

From 2008 into 2018, Les was a contracted as an Investigative Analyst for the US Postal Inspection Service providing investigative consultation and assistance to agents Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud and Bank Fraud, Identity Theft statutes, providing technical, legal and subject matter advice during case intakes, interviews, interrogations, case briefings and trials.

From 2009 until 2011, Les was also contracted by the US Department of Justice provide technical and subject matter advice during a federal investigation of a California-based business that distributed child pornography globally. Les has appeared in news articles, in local and network radio and television broadcasts including CBS’ “48 Hours Mystery,” The Discovery Channel and Crime TV regarding his investigations.