Gordon A Greenberg
USA Guide 2023
Senior Statespeople : Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
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Provided by Gordon A Greenberg
Practice Areas
Partner Gordon A. Greenberg regularly represents clients in civil and criminal investigations, as well as in trials and congressional hearings. He has significant experience defending clients in high-stakes, bet-the-company matters that have civil and criminal components. Gordon has more than 30 years of experience handling a wide range of business crime investigations and trials.
Previously, Gordon was a federal prosecutor, serving as the chief of the Financial Investigations Unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, and was also a state and special federal prosecutor in Chicago. As a prosecutor, he tried several precedent-setting cases including US V. Cuevas, the first extradition of an individual from Switzerland to the United States for money laundering-related offenses, and US v. Barry Minkow, ZZZZ Best, et al., one of the largest securities/money laundering cases tried on the West Coast in the 1980s.
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Career
Previously, Gordon was a federal prosecutor, serving as the chief of the Financial Investigations Unit in the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Office, and was also a state and special federal prosecutor in Chicago. As a prosecutor, he tried several precedent-setting cases including US V. Cuevas, the first extradition of an individual from Switzerland to the United States for money laundering-related offenses, and US v. Barry Minkow, ZZZZ Best, et al., one of the largest securities/money laundering cases tried on the West Coast in the 1980s.
Professional Memberships
American Bar Association
Los Angeles County Bar Association, White Collar Crime Committee, past chairman
Federal Judicial Center, served as faculty lecturer
Personal
Education:
Chicago-Kent College of Law, JD, with honors, 1980
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, BA, 1976
Work Highlights
Represented Dr. Henry Samueli, the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, who was fully exonerated of wrongdoing in connection with alleged stock-options backdating
Represented Ross Perot, Sr., and Perot Systems in highly publicized congressional hearings concerning the California energy crisis
Defended an “American Lawyer Top 25″ national law firm and its lawyers in a criminal investigation involving purported false statements to government regulators