By Emmanuel M. Kangar, Jr.
ESTERN DISTRICT, NEW YORK – A U.S. federal court filing dated May 18, 2026, shows that the Department of Justice has moved to dismiss criminal charges against Indian businessman Gautam S. Adani and other defendants in a case before the Eastern District of New York.
The motion, submitted to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, requests dismissal of the indictment “with prejudice,” meaning the charges cannot be refiled.
According to the filing, the Justice Department said it had reviewed the matter and decided, “in its prosecutorial discretion,” not to devote further resources to pursuing the criminal case against the individual defendants.
The filing cited the 2022 appellate decision in United States v. Blaszczak, noting that the executive branch has broad authority to discontinue prosecutions and that courts rarely interfere with such decisions.
The case was listed as United States v. Gautam S. Adani et al., Criminal Docket No. 24-433 (NGG).
Federal prosecutors also informed the court that no defendant had yet appeared in the case and that counsel for all defendants consented to the dismissal request.
The motion was signed by R. Trent McCotter, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Joseph Nocella Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
