Mark Lesko, Brookhaven Town Supervisor
Mark Lesko served for ten years in the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. and the Eastern District of New York. As the Deputy Chief of the Long Island Criminal Division, he led all federal investigations and prosecutions on Long Island. He has worked closely with local, state, and federal law enforcement officers to target corruption, racketeering, and gang violence on Long Island. He served as the successful lead federal prosecutor in the internationally prominent Muttontown "slave" case, the Lawrence Aviation environmental pollution case in Port Jefferson Station, a racketeering murder case involving the murder of an innocent man by Latino gang members, and the Symbol Technologies corporate accounting case where virtually all of Symbol's senior management was prosecuted for fraud. He also oversaw the "Asphalt Cartel" case involving a successful prosecution of the owners of the major asphalt companies in Suffolk County for antitrust violations, the prosecution of officials of the William Floyd School District for tax evasion, the first federal conviction of a sitting New York State judge and the prosecution of a Nassau County Highway Inspector for taking bribes. Mark was also an adjunct law professor at Touro Law School on Long Island, where he taught a class on Federal Prosecutions.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Mark was a litigator with large law firms in Pittsburgh, PA and Washington, DC. In Pittsburgh, Mark helped establish the Steel Valley Enterprise Zone Advisory Committee, an economic development organization formed to assist economically depressed communities affected by the closure of most of the steel mills in the Pittsburgh area. Before law school, Mark was a court-appointed counselor at the Sasha Bruce Foundation, an inner-city, non-profit in Washington, D.C. that worked with at-risk youth in the criminal justice system, providing them intensive transitional services after their incarceration, including foster care, educational assistance, and therapy. He was also an instructor at the Close Up Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based government studies program for high school students from every state in the nation. For Mark Lesko's full bio, click here.