President Trumpâs former personal lawyer Alina Habba Mildon has lost a $50 million contract with the family of a pardoned Venezuelan billionaire â days after the commander-in-chief blasted the arrangement as âobnoxious and outrageous.â
Habba Mildon was fired by Concord Partners, a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini, according to a Nov. 4 letter obtained by the New York Times.
The company cited a âfailure to perform dutiesâ in terminating the former Trump attorney, who had been guaranteed more than $50 million over four years to serve as Concord’s general counsel.
A person close to the Herrera family told the Times that Habba Mildonâs priorities appeared to shift after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon, whom she married in September.
Habba Mildon will reportedly get to keep the $8 million signing bonus and another $6.5 million in payments she had already received.
The contract called for her to receive $10 million in annual payments, along with additional bonuses.
Habba Mildon declined to comment on her termination to the Times, but a person close to her said she was planning on pursuing legal action.
The stunning split comes after Trump publicly torched the arrangement last month, saying he had told his former attorney he did not want her receiving the money.
âI thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and itâs not acceptable,â Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Halloween.
âI told her, and I said, âI donât want her paid,ââ the president added, claiming he had someone speak to the people behind the deal.
Trump also reportedly told aides and allies that the Herrera family should stop paying Habba Mildon and suggested she donate some of the money to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity.
The eye-popping contract raised questions about the timing of Habba Mildonâs business arrangement and the Herrera familyâs efforts to secure a presidential pardon for its patriarch.
Alina Habba signed the agreement in late October 2025, while serving as an acting US attorney for New Jersey. She began working with Concord Partners on Jan. 1, 2026, while serving as a senior adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Herrera, who had faced federal bribery charges stemming from an alleged scheme involving Puerto Ricoâs governor, reached a plea deal in August 2025, pleading guilty to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation.
Trump granted Herrera a full and unconditional pardon on Jan. 15, 2026, two weeks after Habba Mildon began working for the family-backed company.
Habba Mildon has denied any wrongdoing, insisting her employment had nothing to do with securing the pardon.
âAny insinuation that my employment â all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the DOJ â had anything to do with securing a pardon is false,â she previously said.
The former Trump lawyer, who served as the presidentâs personal attorney before joining the Justice Department, has also faced scrutiny over her time as New Jerseyâs top federal prosecutor.
A federal appeals court ruled that she had been unlawfully serving in the role, ultimately forcing her to resign in December 2025.
