A former lawyer for Donald Trump has reportedly lost a $50 million contract with a company owned by a prominent Venezuelan family. The news comes after the president called the deal “totally obnoxious and outrageous” and urged the family not to pay her.
According to the New York Times (NYT), Alina Habba Mildon was hired by Concord Partners, a company set up last year by Isabela Herrera, the daughter of Julio Herrera Velutini, a billionaire banker from Venezuela. At the time, Mr. Herrera was facing felony bribery charges in Puerto Rico.
In a letter dated Nov. 4, Concord Partners reportedly terminated Mildon citing a “failure to perform duties.” According to an unnamed person who spoke to the NYT, Mildon’s priorities shifted after she started dating 25-year-old Turhan Mildon, a Turkish investor, earlier this year. The pair were married in September.
Despite being fired, Mildon will still walk away with a hefty paycheck. She will keep the $6.5 million already paid to her, as well as her $8 million signing bonus. She will, however, lose the four-year contract she signed that would have paid her $10 million a year, plus bonuses.
Mildon’s role
According to the NYT, Mildon began working for Concord on Jan. 1 after being brought in as general counsel. She was reportedly brought on to help Mr. Herrera with his criminal case, as well as supporting the company’s operations.
At the time of her hiring, Mr. Herrera’s team was already working to secure a pardon from Trump. He made a $3.5 million donation to a super PAC connected to the president.
Mr. Herrera was granted a pardon just weeks after Mildon joined the company, though she has previously denied playing any role in getting it granted. According to the NYT, Mildon was a special government employee at the time of the pardon, which allowed her to work for both the federal government and keep her outside employment for up to 130 days.
“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 said previously in a statement, according to the NYT.
Mildon, who served as a legal spokesperson for Trump from 2021 to 2025, was fired just days after the president had an angry outburst about her contract. According to the NYT, the president told his aides that the Herrera family should stop paying Mildon.
“I thought it was terrible,” the president said last month. “I told her, and I said, ‘I don’t want her paid.’ I thought we had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that. And it was far too much.”
Rinna Diamantakos is a contributing editor at Moneywise.com. A versatile journalist, she has experience as a writer, editor and producer. Her work has focused on politics, business and financial news.
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