A remarkable $50 million contract involving one of President Donald Trump’s former lawyers has collapsed just weeks after it became public and drew the president’s anger. Alina Habba Mildon was fired last week by Concord Partners, the family company that awarded her the lucrative agreement.

The company terminated Mildon in a letter dated Nov. 4, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and a person close to the family. Concord cited a “failure to perform duties,” according to the Times report.

The person close to the family said Mildon’s priorities appeared to move away from Concord after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon, age 25, earlier this year. The company and Mildon declined to comment on the latest developments.

The dismissal followed weeks of scrutiny surrounding the contract, the Herrera family and Trump’s decision to pardon family patriarch Julio Herrera Velutini. The pardon came after Velutini had hired a former member of Trump’s legal team.

Velutini’s daughter had also made generous campaign contributions to Trump’s super PAC. That combination brought uncomfortable attention to a pardon that Trump has neither publicly explained nor defended, according to the source article.

Velutini had faced felony bribery and other charges in the United States. A lawyer aligned with Trump helped negotiate what the source described as an unusually lenient plea agreement in August 2025.

Under that agreement, Velutini pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation. He nevertheless continued seeking a presidential pardon that would clear the remaining matter from his record.

The Herrera family then hired Mildon, who was better known at the time as Alina Habba, under a contract worth $50 million. The former Trump lawyer finalized the agreement while she was still serving as a U.S. attorney in the Republican administration.

Mildon began working at the Herrera family’s company on Jan. 1, only a few months after the company was created. Trump pardoned Herrera weeks later, adding another eyebrow raising chapter to his second term pardon record.

The arrangement emerged amid broader questions about Trump’s controversial use of presidential pardon authority. Those questions have included lucrative campaigns to secure pardons and allegations that access to clemency might effectively be available for purchase through Trump’s White House.

The reporting about Mildon’s contract only intensified that scrutiny. A former Trump lawyer had received an enormous deal from a family whose patriarch soon received presidential clemency, creating precisely the sort of appearance the White House might have preferred to avoid.

Roughly a week after the revelations reached voters, Trump publicly denounced Mildon’s agreement. He called the contract “totally obnoxious and outrageous,” making clear that the eye popping payment had managed to provoke even the president whose pardon placed the arrangement under scrutiny.

MS NOW’s Hayes Brown argued that Trump objected not because of the corruption allegations surrounding the deal, but because the president was not receiving part of the money. That was Brown’s case, while Trump’s own public criticism focused on the contract itself.

The contract is now gone, but Mildon will retain millions already paid under the arrangement. According to the Times, “Mrs. Mildon will keep $6.5 million that was already paid to her and her signing bonus of $8 million.”

That leaves Mildon with $14.5 million despite her termination and the destruction of the larger deal. For a contract condemned by Trump and ended over an alleged failure to perform, the consolation prize remains extraordinarily lucrative.