{"id":3616,"date":"2026-11-01T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:04:06","slug":"trump-calls-50m-contract-for-ex-lawyer-not-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3616","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls $50m contract for ex-lawyer &#8216;not acceptable&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has said it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d for one of his former lawyers, Alina Habba \u200bMildon, to secure a $50 million contract for herself while working \u200cat the US Department of Justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and it\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday. \u201cNot \u200bacceptable at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> reported last week that the \u200bfamily of Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan banker facing US felony \u2060bribery charges before striking a plea deal in August 2025, guaranteed \u200bHabba Mildon more than $50 million over four years.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, according to the \u200bnewspaper, would pay $10 million a year plus bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he told Habba Mildon he did not want her to be paid and called the episode \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Habba Mildon was serving as the \u200bacting US attorney in New Jersey when she signed the contract with \u200bHerrera\u2019s family company, Concord Partners, days after it was registered in late October 2025, \u200cthe \u2060<em>New York Times<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>By the time she started her employment with the Herrera family, a court had <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-appeals-court-disqualifies-trump-ally-habba-us-attorney-2025-12-01\/\">disqualified<\/a> her from serving as US attorney.<\/p>\n<p>She resigned on December 8 and was appointed a senior adviser to the attorney general \u200bthe same day, \u200band was still \u2060in that role when, according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>, she started at Concord on January 1.<\/p>\n<p>Trump pardoned Herrera \u200bon January 15, 2026, according to the Justice Department\u2019s \u200bwebsite.<\/p>\n<p>Habba Mildon \u2060last week said she was never paid for a pardon, never met with anyone at the White House or Justice Department about a pardon, and never \u2060did \u200bany work for a pardon for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bJustice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has said it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d for one of his former lawyers, Alina Habba \u200bMildon, to secure a $50 million contract for herself while working \u200cat the US Department of Justice. \u201cI thought it was totally obnoxious and outrageous, and it\u2019s not acceptable,\u201d Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday. \u201cNot \u200bacceptable at all.\u201d The New York Times reported last week that the \u200bfamily of Julio Herrera Velutini, a Venezuelan banker facing US felony \u2060bribery charges before striking a plea deal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}