今年早些时候，当唐纳德·特朗普赦免委内瑞拉裔意大利银行家胡利奥·埃雷拉·韦卢蒂尼时，一场不可避免的争议随即爆发：公众很快得知，韦卢蒂尼不仅聘请了总统前法律辩护团队的一名成员，而且该赦免是在韦卢蒂尼女儿向特朗普的超级政治行动委员会慷慨捐款之后作出的。
When Donald Trump pardoned Julio Herrera Velutini a Venezuelan-Italian banker, earlier this year, an unavoidable controversy soon followed: It wasn’t long before the public learned that Velutini had not only hired a former member of the president’s legal defense team, but also that the pardon came on the heels of generous campaign contributions Velutini’s daughter made to Trump’s super PAC.
但尽管这些细节已造成损害，《纽约时报》的最新报道将争议推向了一个新的层面。
But as damaging as those details were, the latest reporting from The New York Times pushes the controversy to a new level.
表层细节早已广为人知：亿万富翁银行家韦卢蒂尼在美国面临重罪行贿及其他指控，但他与特朗普关系密切的辩护律师帮助他在2025年8月谈判达成了一项异常宽大的认罪协议。韦卢蒂尼最终就一项轻罪竞选财务违规指控认罪。但这还不够。韦卢蒂尼仍希望彻底洗清罪名。
The surface-level details were already widely known: Velutini, a billionaire banker, was facing felony bribery and other charges in the United States, but his Trump-aligned defense attorney helped negotiate an unusually lenient plea deal in August 2025. Velutini ultimately pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor campaign finance violation. But that wasn’t quite enough. Velutini still hoped to wipe the slate clean altogether.
为此，他的律师——曾任佛罗里达州检察长、曾是特朗普私人法律辩护团队成员的克里斯托弗·基塞——试图利用其职务为当事人奔走，而韦卢蒂尼女儿向共和党总统称其控制的超级政治行动委员会“让美国再次伟大公司”捐赠了350万美元。
To that end, his lawyer — Christopher Kise, the former Florida solicitor general who was part of Trump’s personal legal defense team — tried to use his position to advocate on behalf of his client, and Velutini’s daughter donated $3.5 million to MAGA Inc., the super PAC the Republican president has said he controls.
但虽然这些细节本身就值得关注，《纽约时报》的新报道——MS NOW尚未独立核实——增加了与阿丽娜·哈巴·米尔登相关的新细节，她当时更为人熟知的名字是阿丽娜·哈巴。文章写道：随后，埃雷拉家族聘请了阿丽娜·哈巴，她曾是特朗普的私人律师之一，当时担任司法部顾问。他们开出年薪1000万美元、为期四年，外加一系列奖金的条件。根据《纽约时报》获得的采访记录和文件，加上奖金在内，她在四年内保证获得的报酬超过5000万美元。
But while these details are notable in their own right, the Times’ new reporting, which has not been independently verified by MS NOW, adds new details related to Alina Habba Mildon, better known at the time as Alina Habba. From the article: Then the Herrera family hired Alina Habba, who had been one of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers and at the time was an adviser at the Justice Department. They offered her $10 million a year for four years along with a range of bonuses. In total, including bonuses, she was guaranteed more than $50 million over four years, according to interviews and documents obtained by The New York Times.
根据协议，哈巴将担任康科德合伙公司的总法律顾问，该公司是埃雷拉于2025年10月下旬在佛罗里达州成立的。这家公司没有公开曝光，其业务范围甚至连一些与埃雷拉商业帝国有关联的人也不清楚。哈巴在公司注册后几天内敲定了协议，当时她仍在担任新泽西州联邦检察官。
Under the agreement, Ms. Habba would become general counsel at Concord Partners, a company that Ms. Herrera set up in late October 2025 in Florida. The company has no public profile and its business remains unclear even to some people associated with the Herrera business empire. Ms. Habba finalized her deal days after the company was registered, while she was still serving as U.S. attorney in New Jersey.
米尔登于1月1日正式入职康科德合伙公司，距离公司成立仅几个月。几周后，特朗普赦免了埃雷拉，总统从未公开解释或试图为这一理由辩护。
Mildon’s first day at Concord Partners was on Jan. 1, just a few months after the company was created. Weeks later, Trump pardoned Herrera, for reasons the president has never publicly explained or tried to defend.
米尔登方面，她在特朗普团队中的角色长期以来一直是争议焦点，在《纽约时报》报道发布后，她通过社交媒体发表声明，指控该文章是“左翼媒体”策划的“阴谋”，旨在选举季“转移”选民注意力。
For her part, Mildon, whose role on Team Trump has long been a point of contention issued a statement via social media after the Times’ report was published, alleging that the article is part of plot hatched by “left wing media” to “distract” voters during an election season.
米尔登在冗长的声明中补充道：“重磅消息：离开公共服务岗位后，我回归了职业生涯始终从事的工作：做律师。如果《纽约时报》只是回顾一下他们自己的报道，他们已经将另一位有能力的律师在没有我参与且我并未争取功劳的情况下成功所为归功于该律师。任何暗示我的受聘——所有受聘情况均已过审查并向司法部披露——与获得赦免有关的说法都是虚假且诽谤性的。”
Mildon’s lengthy statement added, “Big Scoop: After leaving public service, I’ve gone back to doing what I have done for my entire career: being a lawyer. If the New York Times simply went back and looked at their own reporting, they have already credited another capable attorney for what he successfully did without me and took credit for. 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 and defamatory.”
不过值得强调的是，根据《纽约时报》的报道，米尔登并非只是在与政府决别后才开始从事私人执业：文章特别指出，当她开始为韦卢蒂尼的女儿工作时，米尔登是时任司法部长帕姆·邦迪的高级顾问，“在司法部设有办公室，并获得美国联邦法警的安保护卫。”
It’s worth emphasizing, however, that according to the Times’ reporting, Mildon didn’t just begin work in private practice after parting ways with the administration: The article specifically noted that when she began working with Velutini’s daughter, Mildon was a senior adviser to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, and “had an office at the Justice Department and a protective detail from the U.S. Marshals.”
《时报》的报道补充道：“埃雷拉女士和埃雷拉先生未回复多次置评请求。他们的公司也未回复。司法部在一份声明中表示，哈巴女士未与任何人谈论过赦免事宜。” 在特朗普的第二个任期内，他面临着关于其丑闻赦免、通过利润丰厚的游说活动争取赦免，以及赦免可能在白宫实际上变成可售商品的指控等棘手问题。
The Times’ report added, “Ms. Herrera and Mr. Herrera did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Neither did their companies. In a statement, the Justice Department said Ms. Habba did not speak to anyone about a pardon.”Throughout the president’s second term, Trump has faced difficult questions about his scandalous pardons, efforts to secure pardons though lucrative lobbying campaigns, and allegations that pardons might effectively be for sale in this White House.
如果最新报道属实，这些问题不仅势必会愈演愈烈，如果民主党在参众两院中的任何一院占据多数，它们极有可能成为中期选举后国会调查的主题。
If the latest reporting is accurate, these questions are not only poised to get louder, they’re likely to be the subject of post-midterms congressional investigations if Democrats are in the majority in either chamber.
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