A federal prosecutor who had worked on the now-defunct case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been fired by the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the decision. The prosecutor was part of the Justice Department’s fraud section in Washington and had previously requested to be removed from the Adani case just two days after Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter moved in May to dismiss the charges against Adani. Adani had been charged in November 2024 with allegedly running a scheme to defraud U.S. investors and bribe Indian government officials to secure a contract for developing the country’s largest solar power plant. Adani denied the allegations, calling them baseless, and pledged to invest billions of dollars in the United States. Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about whether there was a potential quid pro quo arrangement between Adani and the Trump administration that might have influenced the decision to drop the case. U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, who oversaw the case in the Eastern District of New York, ordered Adani to explain whether any such deal had been made in connection with the government’s decision to dismiss the charges. Both Adani and the Justice Department denied any such agreement. Despite the dismissal, Judge Garaufis criticized the Trump administration’s actions as “highly unusual,” though he ultimately agreed to drop the case. The firing of the prosecutor occurred a month after the case was dismissed, according to the sources. The Trump administration has been known to fire federal employees without providing detailed explanations, often citing Trump’s executive powers in official letters. These letters, referred to by former Justice Department officials as “Article II letters,” are named after a clause in the U.S. Constitution that grants the president certain powers. The fired prosecutor did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Last week, Judge Garaufis allowed some charges to remain against some of Adani’s co-defendants, stating the Trump administration had not provided enough factual information to support the reasons for dismissing the charges. Adani had previously stated in a sworn declaration that he was not aware of any agreement involving exchanges for the dismissal of the indictment. An email from U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella from May mentioned a slide deck from Adani’s defense team that included a proposal to invest $10 billion in the U.S., which Nocella said was “categorically rejected” by the office. The Justice Department has defended its decision to drop the case, with McCotter stating the case was “indefensible” and that he would have dismissed the charges regardless of any investment proposals or other settlements. An attorney for Adani could not be reached for comment on the prosecutor’s firing.