Los Angeles, California
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Born:

     New York, New York, 1946

Education:

     University of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics, 1967)

     New York University, School of Law (J.D., 1970)

     Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar

     FBI Hostage Negotiation School, 1979

     Senior Management Institute for Police, Police Executive Research Forum, Harvard University, 1991

     Florida's Criminal Justice Chief Executive Institute, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee Florida

Admissions:

     New York, 1971

     Florida, 1994

Member:

     New York Bar Association

     Florida Bar

     The American Association for Justice; Products Liability Section, Qui Tam Litigation Group, Section on Toxic, Environmental, and Pharmaceutical Torts (STEP)

     Florida Association of Police Legal Advisors

     Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund

Legal Teaching Position:

     Adjunct Professor of Law, St. Thomas University, School of Law, Miami, 1980-1983

     Courses Taught by Professor Schlein:

     Constitutional Law

     Criminal Procedure

     Criminal Law

Lecturer / Instructor:

     Presented national seminars on managing criminal investigations and contemporary issues in law enforcement.

     Instructed groups of high ranking military and police officials from a variety of countries including the former Soviet Union, Columbia and El Salvador on due process and police organization and management.

Awards and Honors:

    Florida Davis Productivity Team Award, issued while serving as Special Counsel to Florida Department of Health, 2007

    Guardian Ad Litem Program Family Law Volunteer of the Year (while working as an Assistant Attorney General)Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

Practice Areas:

• Consumer Fraud Litigation
• Pharmaceutical Drug Product Liability
• Qui Tam Claims
• Whistleblower Protection

Law Enforcement Experience

Florida Department of Financial Services 2007 - 2011
Lt. Colonel/Division of Insurance Fraud
Police Legal Advisor
Manager, Major Case Squad
The Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) is a state law enforcement agency with a staff of 196 including 150 sworn investigators, as well as three attorneys and support staff located in eight bureaus throughout the state. While working for DIF, Mark investigated a broad variety of insurance related crimes including agent fraud, mortgage fraud, PIP fraud, workers compensation premium fraud and health care fraud. In fiscal year 2009/10 the Division of Insurance Fraud received 12,820 referrals and made 1042 arrests. In addition to serving as police legal advisor, Mark headed up a special unit of detectives who investigated major cases assigned by the Chief Financial Officer or the DIF Director.

Florida Department of Health 2006 - 2007
Special Deputy General Counsel Personal Services Contract
Mark was asked to develop a special prosecutions unit to resolve a large backlog of pending investigations against licensed corporate and individual health care providers who violated department rules and regulations. His department's efforts were recognized with a Florida Davis Productivity Team Award.

Florida Attorney General's Office 1993 - 2003
Director, Florida Medicaid Fraud Control Unit 1994 - 2003
Assistant Attorney General
Former Attorney General Robert Butterworth asked Mark to develop and head the only agency in state government that is both a certified state police agency and a law firm. The Florida Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) became a nationally recognized leader in health care fraud enforcement, utilizing a civil enforcement strategy to complement arrest and criminal prosecution as a deterrent to health care fraud. Using civil remedies such as the false claims act, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit was able to recover over one billion dollars from corporate offenders. Mark directed a staff of 143, including 14 Assistant Attorney Generals and over 90 sworn criminal investigators that conducted thousands of criminal investigations, made over 1300 arrests and litigated hundreds of civil cases. Mark managed the successful settlement of multimillion dollar health care fraud cases, and helped develop global litigation strategies for the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units.

Florida Attorney General
Special Counsel 1993-1994
Mark investigated special cases assigned by the Attorney General involving consumer fraud and fraud against the government.

Broward County Sheriff's Office, 1975 - 1993
Director, Department of Law Enforcement
The Broward County Sheriff's Office (BSO), one of the largest in the country, is a full service law enforcement agency serving a county with a population of over 1.7 million. Beginning as a deputy in patrol, Mark went on to command virtually every major operational component of the Broward Sheriff's Office. This included the patrol division, the criminal investigations division, and the special operations group which consisted of S.W.A.T, Aviation Unit, Marine Unit and Dive Team, Bomb Squad, Crime Scene and Crime Lab, and Mounted Patrol.

Mark also served as Accreditation Manager for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). In that capacity Mark directed a broad revision of the department's manual of policies and procedures, and managed a wide range of operational and administrative changes. These efforts resulted in BSO becoming the country's 68th fully accredited law enforcement agency. When Mark retired, he was a lieutenant colonel, and Director of the Department of Law Enforcement.

Related Experience

Consultant
Formerly a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police consulting team; Mark participated in management reviews of numerous law enforcement agencies throughout the country examining organization, operations and management practices.