2026-11-10
Alina Habba Mildon, a former attorney for President Trump, lost a $50 million contract with Concord Partners, a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini. The termination came after Trump publicly criticized the deal. Herrera Velutini had recently received a presidential pardon, and the contract was reportedly signed weeks before that pardon was granted.
All three outlets report the same core sequence: Habba Mildon's contract loss following Trump's public criticism, and the connection to the pardoned banker's family company. The New York Times frames the episode around Trump's anger ('enraged Trump') and places emphasis on the timing relative to the pardon, suggesting a possible impropriety narrative. The Hill offers a more procedural account, noting the contract was lost 'after Trump criticism' without strongly characterizing the president's reaction. The New York Post centers Trump's own words, quoting his description of the deal as 'outrageous,' which frames the story around the president's judgment of the arrangement rather than broader ethical questions.
Frames the story around Trump's anger at the contract and highlights the suspicious timing between the contract signing and the pardon of the family patriarch.
The former Trump lawyer had signed the contract with a family company weeks before the president gave the family’s patriarch a pardon.
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