A Trump lawyer who received a $50 million job after being pardoned by President Donald Trump is now in the hot seat — and her law license is at stake.
“Alina Habba Mildon, a suburban New Jersey lawyer who saw her career skyrocket by attaching herself to President Donald Trump through his most dire legal troubles, is now facing discipline by state judiciary ethics officials over a deal she brokered just before she became Trump’s go-to attorney,” reported The Washington Sun’s Jose Pagliery on Tuesday.
Pagliery added, “The complaint, filed by the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Ethics, stems from legal services Mildon provided to an employee of Trump National Golf Club Bedminster who had alleged being sexually harassed there — before being silenced with a nondisclosure agreement that is illegal under state law.”
The Washington Sun obtained the document and found that it calls for punitive measurements against the former Trump lawyer, “a startling turn for a lawyer who for half of 2025 served as the Trump administration’s acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a position that several courts eventually deemed she held unlawfully.”
Liberal commentator Terry H. Schwadron noted in a recent editorial for AlterNet that Habba’s offense, as well as the offense of other disgraced Trump officials like former Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, is not that they engaged in unethical behavior. Rather it appears Trump is upset with them because they engaged in corrupt activities while not allowing him to personally wet his beak.
“Just as Donald Trump did when he heard stories of now former Ambassador Kimberly Gilfoyle seeking and taking big money for promised access to White House decision-making,” Schwadron wrote. “Trump apparently privately blew up at hearing that his one-time lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, had signed a $50 million, no-show contract with a billionaire who wanted a pardon for his already reduced federal charges.”
He continued, “Pretend outrage or not, what seems to have bothered Trump was that others in his circle were collecting big sums of money for influence with his government – but not kicking into his preferred coffers.”
This is not Habba’s only scandal since she became involved in Trump’s orbit.
“Mildon has made headlines recently given her September wedding to Turkish investor Turhan Mildon — and subsequent revelations in The New York Times that Mildon was embroiled in a lucrative deal with Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan financier seeking a pardon from the Trump White House,” The Washington Sun wrote. “The Times on Tuesday reported that Mildon was fired last week and lost her $50 million contract.”