2026年9月10日 / 美国东部时间上午10:15 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
多位知情人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，在美国司法部高级官员提出撤销对印度亿万高塔姆·阿达尼的刑事指控后不久便退出该案的联邦检察官已被解雇。
其中两名消息人士称，负责刑事调查司欺诈部门的代理助理检察长安德鲁·泰勒于周二因被指控违反职业道德被解职，但未提供进一步细节。
记者无法立即联系到泰勒置评，不过一位曾与他共事的人士表示，他是一名尽职尽责的员工，职业生涯大部分时间都在司法部工作。
他的领英主页显示，他最初以实习生身份进入税务和刑事调查部门。在哥伦比亚特区高等法院短暂担任法律书记员后，他回到司法部，从书记员做起，后来成为审判律师，最终升任助理检察长。
这一解雇消息最先由美国全国广播公司新闻报道。
阿达尼及其可再生能源公司的其他高管在拜登政府任期结束前遭到起诉，被控参与一项范围广泛的外国贿赂和证券欺诈计划，据称他们为获取利润丰厚的太阳能供应合同向印度政府官员行贿。
今年5月，时任代理副司法部长的特伦特·麦科特下令撤销该案。此前，阿达尼的律师团队——包括鲍勃·吉弗拉在内的沙利文-克伦威尔律所律师——与司法部官员就该案进行了会面。
据知情人士和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻查阅的记录显示，在司法部就阿达尼案召开的一次会议中，吉弗拉提交了一份陈述，对所谓的贿赂计划证据提出质疑。其中一张幻灯片声称阿达尼旗下的一家公司“正在推动印度的发展”，另一张幻灯片则称特朗普政府“本不会提起本案”。
消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，吉弗拉还在会上表示，如果检察官撤销指控，阿达尼愿意向美国经济投资100亿美元。
撤销该案的动议仅由政治任命的司法部官员签署，而非参与该案的职业检察官。
此后不久，泰勒和他的一名联合律师夏伊·杰克逊提出退出该案的动议，这一行为被广泛视为一种隐晦的抗议。
美国纽约东区联邦地区法官尼古拉斯·G·加拉菲斯最初拒绝撤销指控，称司法部未为此提供充分的事实依据。
他要求司法部提供更多信息，并要求阿达尼提交宣誓证词，回答是否存在交换条件。阿达尼否认存在此类交换条件。
加拉菲斯最终于上个月同意撤销对阿达尼及其多名共同被告的指控，但他坚决拒绝撤销对其余被告的指控，理由是司法部“没有提出新的理由驳回第一项和第五项指控，也没有提供额外事实来支持请求撤销指控的理由”。
加拉菲斯法官还指责麦科特不当干预此案，称他“无视来自多个联邦办公室的无数官员的专业意见，代之以自己的单一判断”。
泰勒是本月第二位因与高级部门官员在备受瞩目的刑事案件上存在分歧而被解雇的联邦检察官。
本月早些时候，司法部解雇了明尼苏达州检察官马修·埃文斯，他此前一直在调查今年早些时候一名移民海关执法局官员克里斯蒂安·卡斯特罗枪击委内瑞拉移民一案。
就在此前，普罗公共新闻报道称，埃文斯告知被枪击者胡利奥·塞萨尔·索萨-塞利斯的律师及其他受害者家属，做好卡斯特罗仅因作出虚假陈述而被起诉的准备，这一指控的刑罚将比卡斯特罗假借公职侵犯他人宪法权利的刑事指控要轻。
多位消息人士告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，埃文斯目前正在接受调查。
妮可·斯甘加为本报道供稿。
Federal prosecutor who withdrew from dismissed bribery case against Indian billionaire Adani fired, sources say
September 10, 2026 / 10:15 AM EDT / CBS News
A federal prosecutor who withdrew from the criminal case against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani shortly after senior Justice Department officials moved to dismiss the charges has been fired, several sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Andrew Tyler, an acting assistant chief in the fraud section of the Criminal Division, was removed on Tuesday over allegations of ethical violations, two of the sources said, without providing further details.
He couldn’t be immediately reached for comment, though a person who previously worked with him described him as a dedicated employee who had worked at the Justice Department for most of his career.
His Linkedin profile shows he started as an intern in the tax and criminal divisions. After a brief stint as a law clerk in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, he returned to the Justice Department, where he started as a clerk before becoming a trial attorney and eventually an assistant chief.
His termination was first reported by NBC News.
Adani and other executives at his renewable energy company were indicted at the end of the Biden administration in a wide-ranging foreign bribery and securities fraud scheme which alleged they paid off Indian government officials to obtain lucrative solar energy supply contracts.
In May, Trent McCotter, who is now the acting deputy attorney general, ordered the case to be dismissed. The decision came after Adani’s attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell including Bob Giuffra met with department officials about the case.
In one meeting at the Justice Department about the Adani case, Giuffra made a presentation that disputed evidence of the alleged bribery scheme, according to sources familiar with the matter and records reviewed by CBS News. One slide claimed that one of Adani’s companies is “powering India’s progress,” and another slide said the Trump administration “would not have brought the case.”
Giuffra also said at the meeting that if prosecutors were to drop the charges, Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy, sources told CBS News.
The motion to dismiss the case was only signed by politically appointed Justice Department officials, and not by the career prosecutors involved in the case.
Shortly afterwards, Tyler and one of his co-counsels, Shy Jackson, filed motions to withdraw from the case — an act that was widely viewed as a quiet form of protest.
U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, in the Eastern District of New York, initially refused to drop the charges. He said the Justice Department had not provided an adequate factual basis for doing so.
He demanded more information from the Justice Department, and also asked Adani to submit a sworn statement answering questions about whether there was a quid pro quo. Adani denied the existence of one.
Garaufis ultimately agreed to drop the charges against Adani and several of his co-defendants last month, but he has steadfastly refused to drop the charges against the remaining defendants on the grounds that the Justice Department has provided “no new reasons to dismiss counts one and five, and no additional facts to support the reasons given for the requested dismissal.”
Judge Garaufis also accused McCotter of improperly interfering in the case, saying he had “eschewed the professional opinions of innumerable officials from various federal offices and replaced them with his singular judgment.”
Tyler is the second federal prosecutor to be fired this month amid disagreements with senior department officials over a high-profile criminal case.
Earlier this month, the department fired Matthew Evans, a prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating ICE officer Christian Castro over the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant earlier this year.
His firing came shortly after ProPublica reported that Evans told attorneys for the man who was shot, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and other victims to prepare for Castro to only be charged with making false statements. That would result in lesser penalties than criminal charges that Castro had violated people’s constitutional rights under color of law.
Several sources told CBS News that Evans is now under investigation.
Nicole Sganga contributed to this report.
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