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Nevilledog

(53,063 posts)
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 01:23 PM Mar 2024

Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-new-jersey-golf-club-settlement-hangs-lawyer-alina-habba-out-to-dry

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Donald Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, paid $82,500 last week to settle a lawsuit alleging that it had silenced a sexually harassed waitress by tricking her into an unfair hush money deal, according to the ex-employee’s lawyer.

But the curiously worded contract left the former president’s own attorney Alina Habba—a rising star in his orbit—wide open to getting sued herself.

Trump and his top advisers are already a magnet for legal trouble. Habba, who already settled a discrimination lawsuit by her former legal secretary, is no exception. But now she faces the wrath of Alice Bianco, who was once a waitress at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, the real estate tycoon’s summertime abode.

Bianco feels betrayed by Habba, who was one of her Bedminster regulars until, her lawsuit says, Habba posed as a concerned friend giving legal advice about how to address alleged sexual harassment by a supervisor—only to abuse that relationship and “fraudulently inducing” her to “quickly agree to unconscionable and illegal terms.”

The alleged ploy, rapidly paced over just two weeks, gave Habba leverage to arrange a hush money deal that would curry favor with the former president and earn her way into his inner circle.

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Trump Golf Club Settlement Hangs Alina Habba Out to Dry (Original Post) Nevilledog Mar 2024 OP
Like the mob, you have to commit crimes to impress the boss. Irish_Dem Mar 2024 #1
Assuming charges ever drop for his involvement with Epstein limbicnuminousity Mar 2024 #2
If they'll do it with you mercuryblues Mar 2024 #3
Sorry, still fibrillating over the words "Trump" and "paid" in sequence . . . hatrack Mar 2024 #4
Big surprise there.. PCIntern Mar 2024 #5
MAGA "Make Attorneys Get Attorneys" mobeau69 Mar 2024 #6
... Lucinda Mar 2024 #7

Irish_Dem

(55,825 posts)
1. Like the mob, you have to commit crimes to impress the boss.
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 01:30 PM
Mar 2024

To become a "made man."
A fully initiated member of the mob.

limbicnuminousity

(1,409 posts)
2. Assuming charges ever drop for his involvement with Epstein
Tue Mar 19, 2024, 01:33 PM
Mar 2024

Dewey, Cheatum and Howe may be the only firm willing to represent the lummox.

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