A federal judge blasted the Justice Department for dropping bribery charges against an Indian billionaire with connections to President Donald Trump, calling the move "highly unusual." Adani had retained Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell in August 2025 — five months before McCotter joined the Justice Department, the ruling said. Giuffra's team then submitted roughly 600 pages of legal arguments and expert reports to familiarize McCotter with the case, the ruling said. In meetings with Justice Department officials, Giuffra raised the possibility that Adani would invest $10 billion in the United States if the charges were dropped, according to the ruling. His handling of the obstruction charges, the judge wrote, was "at best insufficient to meet Rule 48(a)'s procedural requirements and at worst misleading."