The former Trump lawyer who signed a multi-million contract with a prominent Venezuelan family with suspicious timing to a pivotal Trump pardon has lost her contract, according to the New York Times.
“Alina Habba Mildon, one of President Trump’s former lawyers, was fired last week by the family company that gave her a $50 million contract weeks before Mr. Trump granted a pardon to the family’s patriarch,” reports the Times. “In a letter dated Nov. 4, the company, Concord Partners, terminated Mrs. Mildon citing a ‘failure to perform duties,’ according to a person close to the family and documents obtained by The New York Times.”
The person said Mildon’s priorities appeared to shift away from Concord after she started dating Turhan Mildon, a 25-year-old Turkish investor, earlier this year.
The Times reports the firing came days after it disclosed the deal and prompted an angry outburst from Trump, who called the deal “totally obnoxious and outrageous” and urged the Herrera family not to pay her.
It would appear the family agreed, allowing Mildon to keep $6.5 million already paid to her and her signing bonus of $8 million. Her four-year contract that would have paid her $10 million a year for four years along with a range of bonuses, however, is defunct.
Concord Partners was set up in Florida late last year by Isabela Herrera, the daughter of Julio Herrera Velutini, in curious time with a pardon request to the White House concerning the billionaire banker facing felony bribery charges in Puerto Rico. Weeks after Mildon started, Herrera was granted a full and unconditional pardon by Trump.
Representatives for the Herrera family declined to comment about the sudden collapse of Mildon’s contract, as did Mildon herself.
However, a source close to Mildon told the Times she is planning to pursue legal action.
After hearing of the contract, Trump demanded Mildon share some of her largesse with him by donating “a portion of that money to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity, according to multiple people briefed on the conversations.”
"I thought it was terrible," Trump said. "I told her, I said, 'I don't want her paid.' We had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that. And it was far too much. You know, it's one thing for a person to get paid legal fees or whatever — she's a lawyer. I thought it was a totally obnoxious and outrageous and it's not acceptable. Not acceptable, at all."
When asked if Mildon would be making sure Trump gets his cut of her new four-year contract, Mildon laughed.
