A former South Carolina State Constable, Mike was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1972. He practiced law for over a decade as a trial lawyer in both State and Federal Courts.  Mike is admitted to practice before the courts of South Carolina, the U.S. District Court for South Carolina, the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  In 1985 Mike became an Agent for the U.S. Naval Investigative Service and conducted felony level criminal, espionage and counter-terrorism investigations in the U.S., Europe and Central America.  He then became a Supervisory Criminal Investigator at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center where he trained thousands of Federal, State, Local and International criminal investigations students.  While there, he was selected by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Treasury and State to be an instructor in Law Enforcement Management and Leadership at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest, Hungry where he taught mid and upper level law enforcement executives from the former Soviet Block countries.  After leaving Federal service, Mike became a Senior Judicial Educator for the State of Washington before becoming the Chief Legal Counsel for a government contractor responsible for the detection and investigation of Medicare fraud in thirteen states and three Pacific territories.

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