Fresh twist in Gautam Adani bribery case as US attorney who indicted billionaire businessman to…

Peace said in a statement that it was an honour for him to serve the United States as Attorney. Peace is a native of Brooklyn. As per the statement, Peace will be replaced as the head of the Brooklyn office by First Assistant US Attorney Carolyn Pokorny.

Breon Peace, Brooklyn attorney general, will tender his resignation on January 10 from his post. He had handled high-profile cases as a federal prosecutor. Peace represented as federal prosecutor in R Kelly’s sex-trafficking case, Indictment of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani in bribery case and US Congressman’s criminal conviction.

Peace said in a statement that it was an honour for him to serve the United States as Attorney. Peace is a native of Brooklyn. As per the statement, Peace will be replaced as the head of the Brooklyn office by First Assistant US Attorney Carolyn Pokorny.

He was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021. He will step down before President-elect Donlad Trump takes over the Oval office on January 20.

During Peace’s tenure, he won several big cases for the federal government. Former US representative George Santos pleaded guilty in August over misusing campaign funds. In October, Mexico’s top public security official Genaro Garcia Luna was sentenced to more than 38 years in prison for secretly providing protection to “El Chapo” and the Sinaloa drug cartel. In 2022, Hip hop singer R Kelly was sentenced 30 years imprisonment for sex trafficking.

Peace had not only won cases but his office also successfully extracted penalties in several cases. In March, European oil trader Gunvor Group Ltd. gave its consent to pay more than $660 million to resolve US and Swiss charges that it paid bribes to Ecuadorian government officials.

In November, the Peace office named Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani and two other company directors for allegedly defrauding US investors in a bribery scheme to win government contracts. On the other hand, Adani rejects the allegations terming it as ‘baseless’, stating that he is looking for legal options to ‘reconfirm the company’s absolute commitment to world-class regulatory compliance.’