KENNETH G. GORDON, born New York, New York, July 8, 1945.Admitted to Bar: New York 1971; California 1977; Tax Court(1972), United States District Court, Central District (1980), Northern District (1993), District of Arizona (1999); United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1981); Education: New York University (B.A. 1967), Brooklyn Law School (J.D. 1971), New York University (L.L.M. [Tax], 1972)

Mr. Gordon has served as a senior trial attorney for District Counsel, Internal Revenue Service for seven and one -half years. In that position, he was responsible for the resolution and/or trial of numerous and complex litigation matters, domestic and international. Mr. Gordon has been in private practice for approximately twenty-eight years. He specializes in tax controversy matters, civil and criminal, at the administrative and trial levels of the Federal, State and local governments. In that capacity he has served as special tax litigation counsel for the leading Bankruptcy Trustee in Los Angeles County. In one case, the Internal Revenue Service sought over $9 million, in tax and fraud penalties, from a debtor who has been previously convicted under state law. After a complex trial and appeals to the Federal District Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the claim of the IRS was defeated, as well as the related California tax claim. In addition, Mr. Gordon has been on the faculty of the Graduate Tax Program at Golden State University, been a frequent lecturer before professional tax groups and authored numerous published tax articles.