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Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba Mildon has lost her $50 million job with a company run by the family of a Venezuelan banker who got a Trump pardon weeks after she came on board.
Getting into it: In a letter dated Nov. 4, Concord Partners told her she was out over a “failure to perform duties,” The New York Times reported Tuesday. A person close to the family told the Times she lost focus on the job once she began seeing Turhan Mildon, the 25-year-old Turkish investor she married in September. The $14.5 million she’s already collected stays with her, $8 million of it a signing bonus, but she loses the rest of a four-year deal worth $10 million a year plus bonuses, and someone close to her said she intends to sue.
Isabela Herrera launched Concord in Florida late last year. Her father, billionaire banker Julio Herrera Velutini, had been accused of trying to bribe Puerto Rico’s former governor before an August 2025 plea deal knocked the case down to one misdemeanor. Habba Mildon started as the company’s general counsel on Jan. 1 while still serving as a senior adviser to the attorney general, and Trump granted Herrera Velutini a full pardon two weeks later.
The firing came after Trump publicly blasted the deal once it was revealed last month, urging the family to stop paying her and floating the idea of her giving the money to his planned presidential library. “I thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and it’s not acceptable,” Trump said last month.
Habba Mildon says she had nothing to do with the pardon. Despite this, Sen. Peter Welch and Rep. Dave Min, both Democrats, are investigating whether the contract, political donations or administration officials influenced the pardon and have asked her to respond by Nov. 13.
In a previous statement, she said, “Any insinuation that my employment, all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the DOJ, had anything to do with securing a pardon is false.”
