{"id":77341,"date":"2026-05-15T03:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/gautam-adani-billionaire-trump"},"modified":"2026-05-15T03:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:35:58","slug":"us-reportedly-dropped-fraud-charges-against-indian-billionaire-after-he-hired-trumps-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77341","title":{"rendered":"US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump\u2019s lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani, richest man in Asia, was accused of conspiring to pay $250m in bribes to Indian government officials<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Justice is dropping its fraud charges against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia, after he hired a new legal team led by Donald Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, according to new reports.<\/p>\n<p>In an undisclosed April meeting at the justice department, Trump\u2019s personal lawyer, Robert J Giuffra Jr, said that Adani would invest $10bn in the US economy and create 15,000 jobs if prosecutors dropped the charges against him, according to the New York Times and Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/14\/gautam-adani-billionaire-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani, richest man in Asia, was accused of conspiring to pay $250m in bribes to Indian government officialsThe US Department of Justice is dropping its fraud charges against the Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, the richest man in Asia, after he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,61,554,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77342,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77341\/revisions\/77342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}