Former Trump personal attorney Alina Habba Mildon has lost a $50 million contract with the family of a pardoned Venezuelan billionaire, just days after President Trump denounced the deal as “obnoxious and outrageous.”
Habba Mildon was dismissed by Concord Partners, a Florida-based company founded by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini, according to a Nov. 4 termination letter obtained by The New York Times.
The company attributed the decision to a “failure to perform duties.” Habba Mildon had been guaranteed more than $50 million over four years as Concord’s general counsel.
A person familiar with the Herrera family’s thinking told the Times that Habba Mildon’s focus appeared to change after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon, whom she married in September.
Despite her dismissal, Habba Mildon is expected to keep an $8 million signing bonus and approximately $6.5 million in payments she had already received.
Under the agreement, she was slated to receive $10 million annually, in addition to performance bonuses.
Habba Mildon declined to comment to the Times about her termination. A person close to her said she intended to pursue legal action.
The abrupt end to the relationship follows Trump’s public criticism of the arrangement last month. The president said he had told his former attorney that he did not want her to receive the money.
“I thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and it’s not acceptable,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club on Halloween.
“I told her, and I said, ‘I don’t want her paid,’” Trump added, saying he had asked someone to contact the people involved in the deal.
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Trump also reportedly told aides and allies that the Herrera family should stop making payments to Habba Mildon. He suggested that some of the money instead be donated to his future presidential library or another Trump-affiliated organization.
The unusually lucrative contract prompted questions about its timing and whether it was connected to the Herrera family’s efforts to obtain a presidential pardon for its patriarch.
Alina Habba signed the agreement in late October 2025 while serving as acting U.S. 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 related to an alleged scheme involving Puerto Rico’s governor, reached a plea agreement in August 2025. He pleaded 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 and maintained that her employment was unrelated to the pardon.
“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,” she previously said.
The former Trump lawyer, who represented the president personally before joining the Justice Department, has also faced scrutiny over her tenure as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.
A federal appeals court determined that she had been serving unlawfully, ultimately forcing her to resign from the position in December 2025.
