{"id":73519,"date":"2026-05-14T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-reportedly-dropped-fraud-charges-against-indian-billionaire-after-he-hired-trumps-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T18:59:08","slug":"us-reportedly-dropped-fraud-charges-against-indian-billionaire-after-he-hired-trumps-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-reportedly-dropped-fraud-charges-against-indian-billionaire-after-he-hired-trumps-lawyer\/","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 officials 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 &#8230; <a title=\"US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump\u2019s lawyer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/us-reportedly-dropped-fraud-charges-against-indian-billionaire-after-he-hired-trumps-lawyer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump\u2019s lawyer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}