According to The Hill's report on the firing, Alina Habba Mildon, a former attorney for President Trump, has reportedly been fired from a multimillion-dollar contract with a family company tied to a billionaire banker who recently received a presidential pardon. The outlet's summary said the company, Concord Partners, terminated her $50 million contract in November, but the summary was cut off before giving the full date.
The Hill described Concord Partners as a Florida-based company established by the daughter of Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini. Its summary did not say who made the decision to end the contract, and it did not describe the terms of the agreement.
Fox News reported that Donald Trump personally directed Alina Habba's firing from the $50 million Concord Partners contract, which its summary said is linked to the family of a pardoned Venezuelan banker. In its headline on the contract loss, Fox News said the firing came days after the president blasted the deal as "outrageous."
The two accounts differ on who made the decision. The Hill used the word "reportedly" and did not attribute the firing to Trump in its summary, while Fox News stated that Trump personally directed it. The outlets also use different names for the same woman. The Hill refers to Alina Habba Mildon, and Fox News refers to Alina Habba. Neither summary explains the difference.
Both reports were published on Wednesday. The summaries are brief and do not identify the banker by name in the Fox News account, so the link between the pardoned banker and the Herrera Velutini family rests on The Hill's description alone. The summaries also do not include any response from Habba Mildon, Concord Partners, or other parties named in the coverage, and they do not state the reasons for the termination.
Sources: The Hill: Alina Habba Mildon loses $50M contract after Trump criticism; Fox News: Trump's ex-lawyer Alina Habba loses massive contract days after president blasts 'outrageous' deal.