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Alina Habba Mildon, a former attorney for President Donald Trump, has been terminated from her multi-million-dollar role at Florida-registered Concord Partners following months of intense public scrutiny, according to reports.

In a November 4 termination letter obtained by The New York Times, Concord Partners — a firm established by the family of Venezuelan billionaire banker Julio Herrera Velutini — cited a “failure to perform duties” as the reason for releasing Mildon. A source close to the family told the publication that Mildon’s attention shifted away from her role after she began dating Turkish investor Turhan Mildon earlier this year.

The departure follows public criticism from Trump, who denounced the lucrative arrangement after details of the contract were disclosed.

“I thought it was terrible,” Trump told reporters last month, according to The New York Times. “I told her, and I said, I don’t want her paid.’ I thought we had somebody speak to the people that did it, and she used her relationship to do that. And it was far too much.”

Mediaite also reported Trump saying of the arrangement: “You know, it’s one thing for a person to get paid legal fees or whatever — she’s a lawyer. I thought it was a totally obnoxious and outrageous and it’s not acceptable. Not acceptable, at all.”

Following media coverage of the contract, Trump told aides and allies that the Herrera family should withhold payments to Mildon, suggesting she make a donation to his future presidential library or another entity.

When asked by CBS News about the possibility of donating to the library, Mildon responded via text with “haha” before quickly deleting the message, according to Mediaite.

Despite her firing, Mildon will retain an $8 million signing bonus and $6.5 million in payments already received. The original four-year agreement, which began on January 1 when she was brought on as general counsel, was structured to pay her $10 million annually plus additional bonuses.

Mildon was serving as a special government employee and senior adviser to the attorney general when she joined Concord Partners. Special government employee status permits individuals to serve the federal government for up to 130 days while retaining outside employment, subject to conflict-of-interest guidelines.

The hiring occurred shortly after Herrera reached a plea agreement in August 2025 that reduced his federal charges — originally related to an alleged 2022 scheme to bribe the governor of Puerto Rico — down to a single misdemeanor campaign finance violation. Around the same time, Herrera’s daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $3.5 million to a super PAC aligned with Trump.

Weeks after Concord Partners hired Mildon, Trump granted Herrera a full and unconditional pardon. Mildon has consistently denied that her employment had any connection to the pardon.

“Any insinuation that my employment — all of which has been vetted and disclosed to the D.O.J. — had anything to do with securing a pardon is false,” Mildon said in a statement previously reported by The New York Times.

A person close to Mildon said she intends to pursue legal action over the termination.

The termination comes after a series of setbacks for the couple following their September wedding in New York. The New York Times reported recently that Turhan Mildon gave misleading or exaggerated accounts of his age, past marriages, foreign contacts and business operations.

Additionally, Turhan Mildon remains central to a White House inquiry initiated after Mildon accused former Trump administration official Richard Grenell of skimming funds from a donation made by her husband.

Upon investigating the claims at Trump’s directive, White House officials determined that the $17.6 million in question originated from a government account in the Democratic Republic of Congo — where Turhan Mildon holds business contracts — rather than from Turhan Mildon’s personal funds, as reported by The New York Times.