Alina Habba Mildon, a former attorney for President Donald Trump, has been terminated from her multi-million-dollar role at Florida-registered Concord Partners following months of intense public scrutiny, according to reports.
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In a November 4 termination letter obtained by The New York Times, Concord Partners — a firm established by the family of Venezuelan billionaire banker Julio Herrera Velutini — cited a "failure to perform duties" as the reason for releasing Mildon.
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A source close to the family told the publication that Mildon’s attention shifted away from her role after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon earlier this year.
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The departure follows public criticism from Trump, who denounced the lucrative arrangement after details of the contract were disclosed.
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"I thought it was terrible," Trump told reporters last month, according to The New York Times.
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"I told her, and I said, I don’t want her paid.'
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I thought we had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that.
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Mediaite also reported Trump saying of the arrangement: "You know, it’s one thing for a person to get paid legal fees or whatever — she’s a lawyer.
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I thought it was a totally obnoxious and outrageous and it’s not acceptable.
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Following media coverage of the contract, Trump told aides and allies that the Herrera family should withhold payments to Mildon, suggesting she make a donation to his future presidential library or another entity.
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When asked by CBS News about the possibility of donating to the library, Mildon responded via text with "haha" before quickly deleting the message, according to Mediaite.
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Despite her firing, Mildon will retain an $8 million signing bonus and $6.5 million in payments already received.
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The original four-year agreement, which began on January 1 when she was brought on as general counsel, was structured to pay her $10 million annually plus additional bonuses.
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Mildon was serving as a special government employee and senior adviser to the attorney general when she joined Concord Partners.
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Special government employee status permits individuals to serve the federal government for up to 130 days while retaining outside employment, subject to conflict-of-interest guidelines.
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The hiring occurred shortly after Herrera reached a plea agreement in August 2025 that reduced his federal charges — originally related to an alleged 2022 scheme to bribe the governor of Puerto Rico — down to a single misdemeanor campaign finance violation.
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Around the same time, Herrera's daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $3.5 million to a super PAC aligned with Trump.
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Weeks after Concord Partners hired Mildon, Trump granted Herrera a full and unconditional pardon.
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Mildon has consistently denied that her employment had any connection to the pardon.
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"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," Mildon said in a statement previously reported by The New York Times.
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A person close to Mildon said she intends to pursue legal action over the termination.
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The termination comes after a series of setbacks for the couple following their September wedding in New York.
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The New York Times reported recently that Turhan Mildon gave misleading or exaggerated accounts of his age, past marriages, foreign contacts and business operations.
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Additionally, Turhan Mildon remains central to a White House inquiry initiated after Mildon accused former Trump administration official Richard Grenell of skimming funds from a donation made by her husband.
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Upon investigating the claims at Trump's directive, White House officials determined that the $17.6 million in question originated from a government account in the Democratic Republic of Congo — where Turhan Mildon holds business contracts — rather than from Turhan Mildon's personal funds, as reported by The New York Times.
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