Alina Habba May Have Used Fake Person

[struggle4progress]

Published Jan 30, 2024 at 11:52 AM EST
Updated Jan 30, 2024 at 5:49 PM EST

Trump attorney Alina Habba may have made up a fake person to push her arguments in the former president's defamation case, the lawyer for columnist E. Jean Carroll alleges.

In a Tuesday letter to the judge presiding over the defamation trial, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, raised her concerns that Habba used a fake person to promote her accusations that she and the judge had a conflict of interest.

A day earlier, Habba had demanded Judge Lewis Kaplan (no relation to Roberta) provide "all of the relevant facts" related to an alleged mentorship between him and Carroll's lawyer. The federal judge and attorney had previously both worked at the Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison law firm in Manhattan during the early 1990s. The allegations came days after a jury awarded Carroll $88.3 million in damages from Trump.

In her Tuesday letter denying the accusations, Carroll's lead counsel said that what she was most concerned about was where Habba received the information of an alleged conflict of interest, suggesting that the Trump attorney made up a fake source ...

https://www.newsweek.com/alina-habba-used-fake-person-roberta-kaplan-accusations-1865351

[Hugin]

1. I'd bet real money that with this and Glutemus Maximus...

dropping her as his representation, OnlyFans is looking pretty good right now.

Hmm... A made-up person, who would have thunk it?

[Conjuay]

8. I accuse

John Baron,in the bathroom, with a cell phone.

[Hugin]

9. !

[Hekate]

15. Oh, well done

[AllyCat]

19. I see what you did there

[Attilatheblond]

22. Possibly with tears in his eyes

[yardwork]

28. He said, sir, sir... with tears in his eyes...

[LoisB]

32. Very well done.

[radical noodle]

34. Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy

that trump named his son the same as his fake last name (spelling aside)?

[3Hotdogs]

31. Glutemus Maximus - now it's been a while since I read a history book, but wasn't he the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

under Emperor Caligula?

[sheshe2]

2. Surprise Surprise

Hope she gets sanctioned for this, bunch of frauds.

[Beakybird]

3. It's plausible that Habba was a fake source for the NY Post Article. But how can Kaplan prove it?

[asiliveandbreathe]

11. Subpeona NY POST..and Habba to get to the truth of the matter..

ALL documents associated with the accusation..under oath..not another defamation case..oh my!!!!

[Beakybird]

21. You can't subpoena the a media organization to give up a source.

[asiliveandbreathe]

24. Make attorneys get attorneys..sly aren't they...

I am going to side with Judge Posner..not that it will do any good..Posner , in 1972 Branzberg vs Hayes suggested the courts were wrong to side with journalists who refuse to answer a subpeona..I get it..where oh where, or how for that matter, would our stellar journalists survive..yes, the Plame case comes to mind...

[keithbvadu2]

4. Like Donald's friend Jim from Paris and 'generals told me'.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Who is surprised by this?

Habba needs to be sanctioned yet again. Habba and TFG were sanctioned for $1 million in the bogus Clinton RICO case they filed

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

6. One million, five million, eighty-three million ...Donald seems to be circling the drain

[TheRickles]

14. Nest stop, 350 million (hopefully by the end of this week).

[2naSalit]

10. To the point of...

License permanently revoked.

[mercuryblues]

7. Was her name Merideth McIver?

[LoisB]

12. She is not doing so well at "faking smart".

[Hekate]

16. Words that will come back to bite her in the ass!

[LoisB]

27. Indeed!

[Caliman73]

18. You can only "fake smart" to other stupid people.

Any half way intelligent person will see right through someone "faking smart". Habba does understand that her side has A LOT of stupid people in it.

[LoisB]

29. So true.

[spooky3]

20. If only there were plastic surgery for the brain! Nt

[LoisB]

30. LOL!

[struggle4progress]

13. Attorney backs off conflict claim

[orangecrush]

35. This is excellent

Thank you!

[moniss]

17. Maybe John Barron

has some "inside" info. It's possible the judge can call both lawyers into a hearing and require Habba to explain the source. I think he would be on solid ground since the accusation involved him. If it was just lawyers sniping at each other post-trial I don't think he would call them in.

[Warpy]

23. This is what happens when you don't fact check everything you read

in an anonymous blog and that you think will help you make your case. Lack of fact checking can lead to some serious consequences, as they most likely will in this case.

I can foresee some pretty hefty sanctions. There need to be, to discourage other lazy lawyers from charging full steam ahead with attacks against the judge that are not supported by evidence.

[Blue Owl]

25. He was made up with orange bronzer and lots of hairspray

[RandySF]

26. Only the best attorneys.

[The Bopper]

33. The orange cumquat

Hires the ones so he can say he had inadequate representation to extend the time he has to pay. You can see over the past several years of this example.