Edward Carter was a white-collar crime prosecutor, an Assistant Illinois Attorney General, and Chief of the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Bureau. In that latter capacity, he supervised the Financial Crimes Prosecution Unit and the Revenue Prosecutions Unit of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He prosecuted and supervised a staff of attorneys who prosecuted, a wide range of economic crimes, including crimes such as bank fraud, securities, and investment fraud, insurance fraud, and public corruption cases.
Mr. Carter’s significant prosecutions include the largest state Wire Fraud prosecution in Illinois history, the largest Motor Fuel Tax Fraud prosecution in Illinois history, the largest state prosecution in Illinois history of a scheme perpetrated by bank insiders to defraud both a bank and bank regulators, and after Illinois became a party to the International Fuel Tax Agreement, the first fraud prosecution brought in the United States under that agreement.