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Alina Habba loses $50m deal that Trump blasted as 'obnoxious' amid claims she helped secure pardon
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1File photo: Alina Habba
The former Trump lawyer had signed the contract with a family company weeks before the president gave the family’s patriarch a pardon.
Daily Mail didn’t include a summary, so this is The New York Times’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Alina Habba
Alina Saad Habba Mildon is an American lawyer and political advisor who was named acting United States attorney for the District of New Jersey in July 2025, having previously served in an interim capacity from March 2025. Her July appointment was ruled unlawful in August 2025 and the ruling was upheld on appeal in December 2025. She announced her resignation from the post on December 8, 2025.4
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