2024 Levittown School District Hall of Fame Inductees
Michael Hershman
Alumni Award
MacArthur High School, 1963Michael Hershman began his career in intelligence and investigations in Europe during the late 1960s as a special agent with the US Military Intelligence, specializing in counter-terrorism. After leaving the military, he moved to investigations of government misconduct and financial fraud for the NYS Attorney General's office and the Office of the Mayor of NYC.
He is an internationally recognized expert on matters relating to transparency, accountability, governance, litigation and security. The Fairfax Group, which was founded in 1983, has been retained by governments, corporations, law firms and international financial institutions to assist on matters relating to the conduct of senior-level officials and/or the entities with which they do business. He has given hundreds of speeches throughout the world on issues related to transparency and accountability and has provided commentary on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN and Fox News. Michael has been quoted and published in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Washington Post, USA Today and the National Law Journal. Michael has devoted his entire career to the principles of transparency and integrity in business, government and sports.