Date: October 5, 2023 Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Washington, D.C. Field Office announced Kareem A. Carter as its the Executive Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Washington, D.C. Field Office. In this role, Mr. Carter oversees special agents, analysts, and professional staff, 120 employees covering Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia along with specialized groups in Cyber Crimes, International Tax and Financial Crime, Global Illicit Finance, and Alcohol Tobacco and Tax. As the special agent in charge, Mr. Carter is responsible for planning, directing, and evaluating the activities of criminal investigation employees who work to investigate violations of tax and other financial crimes locally, nationally, and internationally. Mr. Carter started his IRS-CI career as a Student Trainee in 2001, in the Denver Field Office and was promoted to a special agent in 2002. In 2007, Mr. Carter was assigned to the North Texas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area taskforce in Dallas, TX. Since 2010, Mr. Carter has held the increasingly responsible positions of Supervisory Special Agent; Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Liaison; Assistant Special Agent in Charge and Chief of Staff to the Chief of Criminal Investigation. Mr. Carter has also served as the Acting Director for Global Operations overseeing IRS-CI's international and domestic operations by overseeing policy, oversight, and support to the field offices in program areas to include tax and money laundering, special investigative techniques, seizure, forfeiture, narcotics, and national security. Prior to this role, Mr. Carter served as the Deputy Director for Global Operations and prior to that Mr. Carter served as the Special Agent in Charge, Oakland Field Office. "IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement special agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code and we are the best at what we do, which translates to a 90 percent conviction rate," said SAC Carter. "I'm proud to lead the Washington D.C. field office agents, professional staff, analyst, and supervisors to ensure they have the support they need to continue their vital work." IRS-CI is the criminal investigative arm of the IRS, responsible for conducting financial crime investigations, including tax fraud, narcotics trafficking, money-laundering, public corruption, healthcare fraud, identity theft and more. IRS-CI special agents are the only federal law enforcement agents with investigative jurisdiction over violations of the Internal Revenue Code, boasting a more than a 90 percent federal conviction rate. The agency has 20 field offices located across the U.S. and 12 attaché posts abroad.
