| Notes |
As the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1993 to 1999, Mr. Carter brought federal charges in the beating and torture of Mr. Louima in 1997 by police officers in a police station bathroom. Alan Vinegrad, who was the chief prosecutor in the case, said Mr. Carter “felt passionate about taking the case and what lay underneath it — the problem of excessive force by the Police Department.” The abuse led to criminal convictions and an $8.7 million civil settlement by the Police Department.
Mr. Carter’s tenure had no shortage of other high-profile cases, including the prosecution of the real Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, and those responsible for the death of a man during the Crown Heights riots in 1991. |