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Edward Carter

Edward Carter

Chief of Special Prosecutions (Ret.)
Office of the Illinois Attorney General

Edward Carter is a career white collar crime prosecutor, was 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. Before being appointed Chief of Special Prosecutions, Mr. Carter was the Supervisor of the Financial Crimes Prosecution Unit where he prosecuted, and he supervised a staff of attorneys who prosecuted, a wide range economic crimes, including crimes such as bank fraud, securities and investment fraud, insurance fraud, and government program fraud. Prior to supervising the Financial Crimes Prosecution Unit, Mr. Carter was assigned to the Revenue Prosecution Unit of the Attorney General’s Office, where, using both direct and indirect methods of proof, he prosecuted criminal violations of various Illinois tax laws.

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.

Mr. Carter served on the legal committee and its criminal law sub-committee for Operation Top Off 2, the U.S. Department of Justice’s week long simulation exercise about a bioterrorist attack on Chicago. Subsequently, he served on the committee that drafted legislation to amend Illinois’s public health laws to incorporate lessons learned from the Top Off 2 exercise.

Mr. Carter has lectured extensively in Eastern Europe about the investigation and prosecution of white collar crime and money laundering and is adjunct professor of law in Chicago Kent College of Law’s School of American Law.

Edward Carter

Mr. Carter’s publications include:

  • Understanding and Combating Money Laundering (Chapter), CONTROLLING WHITE-COLLAR CRIME, Igor Osyka, editor and translator, National University of Internal Affairs and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2005)
  • Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal, Walters-Kluwer (2019)
  • The Limits of Judicial Power: Does the Constitution Bar the Application of Certain Ethics Rules to Executive Branch Attorneys?, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL, Winter 2003
  • Applying the Inevitably Incident Conduct Statute: Did the Appellate Court “Get It Wrong?”, 14 DCBA BRIEF 10 (DuPage County Bar Association May 2002)
  • Big Data, Criminal Jurisdiction, and Transnational Crime: How the Long Arm of the Law Reaches Across National Borders (Chapter), VALUE OF INFORMATION: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PRIVACY, AND BIG DATA, Maciej Barczewski (ed.), Peter Lang GmbH (Berlin 2018)
  • Tax Law and Order: The Importance of an Integrated Tax Enforcement Program, 66 Tax Administrators News 81 (October 2002)

Barry Jonas

Barry Jonas

Biography

Barry Jonas is an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of. He joined the Department of Justice in DC in 1991 where he spent his first eleven years with the Criminal Section of the Tax Division, prosecuting tax, fraud, money laundering and other white collar cases. Shortly after 9/11, Barry left the Tax Division and joined DOJ’s CounterTerrorism Section of the National Security Division. In 2010 Barry left Washington to join the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago where he is currently the Senior Counsel to the National Security and Cybercrime Section.

Barry Jonas

Barry Jonas

Biography

Barry Jonas is an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of. He joined the Department of Justice in DC in 1991 where he spent his first eleven years with the Criminal Section of the Tax Division, prosecuting tax, fraud, money laundering and other white collar cases. Shortly after 9/11, Barry left the Tax Division and joined DOJ’s CounterTerrorism Section of the National Security Division. In 2010 Barry left Washington to join the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago where he is currently the Senior Counsel to the National Security and Cybercrime Section.

Adam Weber

Adam Weber

Biography

Adam Weber, a seasoned litigator and former international war crimes prosecutor, joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2019 after nearly a decade at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. At Chicago-Kent he directs the International Trial Advocacy LL.M. program, supervises student externships at private law firms and government agencies, and serves as an instructor for Trial Advocacy I, Trial Advocacy II, and Litigation Technology.

Weber is best known for his prominent role as a Trial Attorney at the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, a special court established to try those responsible for serious violations of humanitarian law committed in the Balkans. At the ICTY he prosecuted cases involving senior political, police, and military officials, and brought justice for countless victims. In his final case, Weber helped secure the conviction of General Ratko Mladić, the highest-ranking officer prosecuted at the tribunal.

Before joining the ICTY, Weber worked as an assistant state’s attorney in Chicago, where he prosecuted defendants for crimes such as murder, sexual violence, and drug trafficking in more than 150 felony cases. In 2006 and 2007 Weber taught as a visiting faculty member at the National College of District Attorneys. He began his career as a business and commercial litigation associate at the law firm of Gould & Ratner in Chicago.

Since leaving the ICTY, Weber has served as a legal consultant for international organizations engaged in fighting terrorism, protecting human rights, and upholding the rule of law. As such, Weber has provided prosecutorial expertise for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to address crimes committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; trained prosecutors and investigators at the Bosnia-Herzegovina war crimes office; and helped strengthen international and domestic judiciaries and prosecutorial offices in Iraq, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Netherlands, and the Central African Republic.

Weber graduated from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1999 and was a member of the law school’s Trial Advocacy Team. From 2004 to 2006 he taught trial advocacy at Chicago-Kent as an adjunct professor. Weber earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Iowa.

Adam Weber

Director of the International Trial Advocacy LL.M. Program Lecturer

  • Email:
    aweber@kentlaw.iit.edu
  • Telephone:
    (312) 758-2530
  • Address:
    565 W. Adams St., Room 827
    Chicago, IL 60661

Education

  • J.D., Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • B.A., University of Iowa

Affiliated Programs

  • LL.M. Program in Trial Advocacy for International Students
  • Trial Advocacy Program

9/11@20 Part 2

The 9/11 terrorist attacks twenty years ago launched a revolution in every aspect of our national security apparatus.  Whether through the enactment of new laws or the reinterpretations of existing authorities, the United States radically changed its posture to address this new challenge posed by those who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks, and those who harbored them.  This two-day virtual seminar will attempt to evaluate the successes and failures in that effort, and the efforts still required to keep our nation safe while protecting our liberties.

9/11@20 Part 1

Event Detail

The 9/11 terrorist attacks twenty years ago launched a revolution in every aspect of our national security apparatus.  Whether through the enactment of new laws or the reinterpretations of existing authorities, the United States radically changed its posture to address this new challenge posed by those who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks, and those who harbored them.  This two-day virtual seminar will attempt to evaluate the successes and failures in that effort, and the efforts still required to keep our nation safe while protecting our liberties.

1:00 – 4:30PM
CLE Pending

To register, go to: ckcle.ce21.com