by Joseph Weber
Former President Trump personal attorney Alina Habba Mildon has reportedly lost a $50 million contract with the family of a pardoned Venezuelan billionaire, following Trump calling the arrangement “obnoxious and outrageous.”
Mildon was fired by Concord Partners, a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini, according to a report Wednesday by The New York Post.
The deal was first reported by The New York Times, based on a Nov. 4 letter obtained by the news outlet.
Veluntini was seeking clemency in connection to a campaign finance charge. He was granted it soon after the daughter, Isabela Herrera, gave Habba Mildon the job of Concord general counsel. The deal was reportedly for $10 million annually for four years, with bonuses.
Habba Mildon formally began her work for Concord on Jan. 1, and weeks later Trump granted Herrera a full and unconditional pardon. At the time, Habba Milton was a senior adviser to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, overseeing U.S. attorneys, The Times also reports. She recently married Turkish investor Turhan Mildon.
The sequence and timing of events raises questions about the lucrative deal. However, Habba Mildon has denied any role in the pardon.
“Any insinuation that my employment – all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the D.O.J. – had anything to do with securing a pardon is false,” she said in a statement.
Trump says he told Habba Mildon that he did not want her receiving the money. And he said on Halloween night: “I thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous,” also according to The New York Post.
He also has suggested she donate some of the money to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity, the newspaper also reports.
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Joseph Weber is a reporter for Just the News.
Photo “Alina Habba Mildon” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0.
