Behind Adani investigations: multiple US agencies, Indian-American officials

The 2nd is simply a civilian ailment filed by the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) connected Wednesday (Thursday successful India) which seeks imperishable injunctions, civilian penalties, and serviceman and manager bars. The probe for this was headed by the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, and the litigation volition beryllium led by the agency’s in-house counsel.

Here is each you request to cognize astir the radical down the Adani investigations, including the aggregate Indian-Americans involved.

FBI probe team

* James E Dennehy, adjunct manager successful charge, FBI’s New York Field Office

Dennehy was among the officials who announced the transgression charges against Adani connected Wednesday. He was appointed to his existent bureau connected September 13 this year.

After serving successful the US Marines for 7 years, Dennehey had joined the FBI arsenic a peculiar cause successful 2002 and worked successful counterintelligence cases astatine the New York Field Office. He roseate done the ranks to go the Special-Agent-in-Charge of the agency’s Newark Field Office successful July 2022. During his tenure successful Newark, helium prioritised cybercrime, healthcare fraud, civilian rights violations, and convulsive crime.

* The agency’s probe is being conducted by the New York Field Office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud and International Corruption Units.

Attorney’s Office for New York’s Eastern District

* Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York

Peace, 53, was besides among the officials who announced the transgression charges against Adani. He assumed his existent bureau successful 2021. Among his palmy prosecutions was that of pro-Donald Trump societal media influencer Douglass Mackey for conspiring to interfere successful the 2016 elections by encouraging Twitter (now X) users who supported Hillary Clinton to ballot via substance message.

Peace studied instrumentality astatine University of California, Berkeley and the New York University School of Law. He has been practicing instrumentality for implicit 2 decades, and has besides taught instrumentality astatine the NYU instrumentality schoolhouse for a little while.

“My Office is committed to rooting retired corruption successful the planetary marketplace and protecting investors from those who question to enrich themselves astatine the disbursal of the integrity of our fiscal markets,” Peace said successful a connection connected Wednesday.

* The lawsuit volition beryllium prosecuted by Assistant US Attorneys Sarah M Evans (Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section astatine US Attorney’s Office for New York’s Eastern District), Matthew R Galeotti (also successful the Business and Security Fraud Section, with an expertise successful cases involving overseas corruption), and Jessica K Weigel.

DoJ’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section

* Lisa H Miller, lawman adjunct Attorney General for DoJ’s Criminal Division

Miller was the 3rd authoritative who announced the charges against Adani. Since being appointed to her contiguous presumption successful 2021, she has been overseeing the enactment of much than 200 prosecutors successful the Criminal Division’s Fraud and Appellate Sections.

Before her existent appointment, Miller had served arsenic the Chief of the Market Integrity & Major Frauds Unit wrong the Fraud Section, supervising 45 white-collar prosecutors arsenic they conducted investigations and prosecutions of immoderate of the astir important securities, commodities, authorities procurement, cryptocurrency/digital asset, and pandemic fraud matters crossed the US.

* Shy Jackson of the Criminal Division, who is simply a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit (FCPA) prosecutor, and Andrew Tyler of the Fraud Section’s Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit volition beryllium prosecuting the case.

* The prosecutors volition beryllium assisted by paralegals specialists Liam McNett (who assists successful achromatic collar investigations and prosecutions that see ligament fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, wealth laundering, and FCPA violations), Angelina Tyler (a papers absorption analyst), and Nadiya Singh (a overseas corruption paralegal).

SEC’s investigation, litigation team

* Sanjay Wadhwa, acting director, Division of Enforcement

Wadhwa, an Indian-American, heads the US regulator’s Enforcement Division, which oversees the agency’s civilian instrumentality enforcement relation by “conducting investigations into imaginable securities instrumentality violations, filing enforcement actions against wrongdoers, and returning wealth to harmed investors whenever possible”. The 21-year bureau seasoned took implicit this station connected October 11 this year, replacing Gurbir S Grewal, the erstwhile New Jersey Attorney General who had led the part since 2021.

Wadhwa, who studied instrumentality astatine the South Texas College of Law Houston and the New York University School of Law, utilized to service arsenic a lawman to Grewal. He had joined the SEC successful 2003 arsenic a unit lawyer and roseate to go the co-head of enforcement successful the New York office, overseeing the day-to-day functions of its enforcement program. He antecedently served successful roles specified arsenic lawman main of the Market Abuse Unit and adjunct manager of the New York office. Prior to his vocation successful the SEC, helium was a taxation associate.

In a connection connected Wednesday, helium said that “We [the SEC] volition proceed to vigorously prosecute and clasp individuals, including elder firm officers and directors, accountable erstwhile they interruption our securities laws.”

* Tejal D Shah, subordinate determination manager successful the New York office, Enforcement Division

As the caput of SEC’s enforcement programme successful the New York office, Shah is the authoritative overseeing the agency’s probe into Adani’s alleged bribery scam. She began her vocation successful the SEC successful 2014, and has risen up the ranks successful the agency’s enforcement part since then. Prior to becoming an subordinate manager past year, Shah served arsenic elder peculiar counsel to the Enforcement Director and Deputy Director.

Prior to joining the SEC successful 2014, she practiced instrumentality with Cooley LLP. She studied instrumentality astatine the NYU School of Law aft obtaining a BSc successful Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University successful 2003.

* The SEC probe into Adani Green is being conducted by Enforcement Division counsels Nicholas Karasimas, Stewart ‘Stew’ Gilson, Christopher M Colorado, and Alison Conn. Karasimas, Gilson, and Colorado volition besides pb SEC’s litigation. They volition beryllium supervised by Co-Regional Trial Counsel Daniel Loss.

* The SEC’s FCPA probe is being conducted by Eric Heining, Patrick Noone, and Paul Block of the agency’s FCPA Unit. The litigation volition beryllium led by Boston Regional Office Trial Counsel Martin Healey.