Trumps ex-lawyer Alina Habba loses whopping $50M contract after president blasted outrageous deal
President Trump’s former personal lawyer Alina Habba Mildon has lost a $50 million contract with the family of a pardoned Venezuelan billionaire — days after the commander-in-chief blasted the arrangement as “obnoxious and outrageous.”Habba Mildon was fired by Concord Partners, a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini, according to a Nov.4 letter obtained by the New York Times.The company cited a “failure to perform duties” in terminating the former Trump attorney, who had been guaranteed more than $50 million over four years to serve as Concord’s general counsel.A person close to the Herrera family told the Times that Habba Mildon’s priorities appeared to shift after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon, whom she married in September.Habba Mildon will reportedly get to keep the $8 million signing bonus and another $6.5 million in payments she had already received.The contract called for her to receive $10 million in annual payments, along with additional bonuses.Habba Mildon declined to comment on her termination to the Times, but a person close to her said she was planning on pursuing legal action.The stunning split comes after Trump publicly torched the arrangement last month, saying he had told his former attorney he did not want her receiving 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,’” the president added, claiming he had someone speak to the people behind the deal.Trump also reportedly told aides and allies that the Herrera family should stop paying Habba Mildon and suggested she donate some of the money to his future presidential library or another Trump-related entity.The eye-popping contract raised questions about the timing of Habba Mildon’s business arrangement and the Herrera family’s efforts to secure a...