Alina Habba Biography
Alina Habba is an American Lawyer, and Managing Partner of Habba, Madaio & Associates LLP, based in Bedminster, New Jersey. Haba is currently serving as Trump’s attorney and as a senior advisor to MAGA, Inc., his Super PAC.
Alina Habba Career
Habba received her diploma from Kent Place School in 2002. She studied political science at Lehigh University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in 2005. Habba produced accessories and collaborated with Marc Jacobs executives in the fashion sector from 2005 until 2007. Despite her enjoyment of the fashion sector, she claimed that money was the main reason she chose to go to law school. She attended the Widener University Commonwealth Law School, where she received a J.D.
Habba worked for Eugene J. Codey Jr., the Presiding Judge of the Civil Superior Court in Essex County, New Jersey, from September 2010 to September 2011 following his graduation from law school. As an associate at Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP, Habba started her own business in September 2011 and remained there until February 2013. Her then-husband founded Sandelands Eyet LLP in 2013, and she served as its managing partner and equity partner from February 2013 until March 2020. The firm employed seven attorneys.
She departed to launch her own company in March 2020. Five individuals are employed at Habba, Madaio and Associates LLP. In addition to the company’s location in Bedminster, New Jersey, Habba also maintains an office downtown. Habba is authorized to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In a federal class action lawsuit against a nursing home in New Jersey, she was lead counsel in numerous cases alleging various forms of negligence and consumer fraud.
Habba represented Siggy Flicker in July 2021. Flicker, a Trump-supporting former cast member of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, claimed that Facebook had blocked her account because she had wished Melania Trump a happy birthday. Facebook appears to ignore a letter that Habba wrote to them. Caesar DePaço is a vitamin supplement entrepreneur. In July 2021, Habba launched a lawsuit against Portuguese journalists for disclosing his close ties to the far-right Chega party in Portugal. The action was filed in a federal court.
In 2019, Habba became a member of the Bedminster, New Jersey-based Trump National Golf Club, which is about eight minutes away from her legal practice. It was there that she and Donald Trump became acquainted. A Trump National Golf Club Bedminster employee filed a lawsuit in December 2023 with the intention of referring Habba to the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics. Additionally, the employee claimed that during the second half of 2021, Habba coerced the employee into signing an illegal non-disclosure agreement when the employee wanted to report a club manager for sexual misconduct at work (New Jersey forbade non-disclosure agreements for workplace harassment).
According to the employee, Habba made an attempt to become friends with her, supported the dismissal of the worker’s attorney, gave the worker a non-disclosure agreement with consequences for disclosure, and issued a warning not to make the accusation of sexual misconduct at work public. In response, Habba said in 2023 that she always conducts herself morally and behaved the same way in this situation.
When Trump hired Habba in September 2021, she had never represented him in court. She replaced a number of well-known attorneys who had represented Trump for many years but had resigned, including Marc Kasowitz, Charles Harder, Joanna Hendon, Marc Saroff Mukasey, Jay Sekulow, and Lawrence S. Rosen. Habba gained recognition almost immediately after her hiring when she filed a $100 million lawsuit on Trump’s behalf against the New York Times, three Times reporters, and Trump’s niece, Mary L. Trump. The judge dismissed her case, citing “fail[ing] as a matter of constitutional law.”
In order to make sure Trump had enough money to pay back his loans, banks compelled him to file annual Statements of Net Worth, which Habba represented Trump. The investigation concerned Trump’s misrepresentation of the value of his assets on these forms. A court order ordering Trump and his children to provide sworn testimony regarding the valuations they signed for while submitting those returns was challenged by her, but her appeal was unsuccessful. On August 10, 2022, Trump was personally questioned by Letitia James, the Attorney General of New York. In addition, Habba headed the defense and was present at the deposition. During the four-hour deposition, Trump repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution to dodge all inquiries.
In a probe headed by New York Attorney General James, Habba made an ineffective attempt in February 2022 to keep Trump from having to provide a sworn statement. Habba was sued on July 19, 2022, by Na’Syia Drayton, a former employee. According to Drayton, Habba frequently sang inappropriate gangster rap and hip-hop music in the office, using profanity, and making racist remarks. In addition, she called New York Attorney General Letitia James “that Black bitch.” In September 2022, the lawsuit reached an out-of-court settlement. That same January, Habba had referred to James as a “sick person”.
Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court dismissed a 2022 lawsuit filed by Habba on behalf of Trump against a number of public figures, private individuals, and private companies to recover damages for alleged behavior related to the 2016 presidential election, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, Jake Sullivan, and many others. Middlebrooks dismissed all of Trump’s allegations, ruling that the lawsuit was deficient in every way and specifically stating that sanctions against Trump’s lawyers will be considered at a later time.
Middlebrooks censured the Trump attorneys, Michael T. Madaio, Habba, Peter Ticktin, and Jamie Alan Sasson, two months after rendering that ruling. $50,000 in fines were imposed upon them, in addition to $16,000 to reimburse one of the defendants’ settlement costs. Subsequently, in January 2023, Middlebrooks ruled that 31 defendants—including the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, and former FBI director James Comey—were entitled to $938,000 in legal fees from Trump, Habba, and her company. Regarding Habba’s case, the judge stated that no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Additionally, he stated that all the charges in the new complaint were intended to serve political ends, and not a single one made a valid legal claim.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit was considering an appeal of the Order in February 2023. Habba erroneously claimed that the “fake news” had not covered the matter, claiming that no one had heard of it during a speech at the December 2023 Turning Point USA conference. She continued by saying that, despite the lawsuit listing 31 defendants, she and President Trump had been fined a million dollars for taking on Crooked Hillary. Moreover. she estimated that 50 attorneys represented the entire extreme left.
Additionally, Habba represented Trump in a federal civil lawsuit brought by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney. On November 14, 2022, Judge Lewis J. Liman granted Habba’s move to dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice, thereby dismissing the entire action. In her argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Carroll v. Trump case, Habba also supported Trump’s private interests. the Federal Tort Claims Act covers a former president of the United States, according to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The Second Circuit agreed that Trump was working for the US at the time and that the District Court had to take that into account when determining whether the Federal Tort Claims Act applied to Trump’s remarks. The decision was made on September 27, 2022. The merits of Trump’s argument that his remarks amounted to executive action in his capacity as US president were not discussed in the Second Circuit ruling. Habba’s legal fees were paid for by Trump’s Save America political action committee in 2022.
In January 2024, Habba predicted that Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, “who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place,” would “step up” to support Trump’s case in Trump v. Anderson, which will determine whether Trump is disqualified from voting according to the Fourteenth Amendment. Habba refuted the notion that justices such as Kavanaugh would rule in favor of Trump because “they’re pro-law, because they’re pro-fairness,” rather than being “pro-Trump.”
Alina Habba Age
Habba was born on March 25, 1984, in Summit, New Jersey, United States. She is 39 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 25th of March every year.
Alina Habba Height and Weight
Habba stands at a height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 meters) and weighs 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
Alina Habba Family
Habba was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey, alongside her two siblings. Her parents, Saad F Habba, a gastroenterologist, and Janan Habba, were Chaldean Catholics who emigrated from Iraq to the United States in the early 1980s to escape persecution in that country. She has not disclosed the names of her siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Alina Habba Husband and Children
Habba was initially married to Matthew Eyet, a business lawyer and the owner of Eyet Law LLC. The duo tied the knot on September 10, 2011, in Summit City, Union County, New Jersey. However, they divorced in 2019, citing unknown reasons. In 2020, she married Gregg Reuben, an entrepreneur in 2020. The couple resides in Bernardsville, New Jersey. Habba has two children from her previous marriage; a son named Jeremy and a daughter named Chloe.
Alina Habba Nationality | Alina Habba Ethnicity
Habba holds an American nationality and is of white ethnicity.
Alina Habba Gaming Laptop
In October 2023, during former president Donald Trump’s $250 million fraud trial in New York, Habba showed up with what appears to be an Asus ROG gaming laptop. Its RGB logo changed colors during the hearing. Habba did not respond to a request for comment but did tweet about this story three days after it was published to clarify that the laptop actually belonged to the court and was used for the live transcript feed.
She just happened to be the person seated in front of it. The laptop was spotted by Ryan Rigney, marketing director for the recently released anime sports game, Omega Strikers. “Gamer lawyer brought the 2070ti asus laptop with the blue underglow to the court hearing,” he tweeted. Various pictures taken at different times during the hearing appear to show the Asus ROG emblem on the front of the laptop, as well as the underflow, cycling from blue to orange.
The laptop in question looks like it could be the ROG Strix G17 G712 model. Originally released in 2021, it sports a 17-inch screen, an RTX 2070 Super GPU, 2.3 GHz Intel i7, 16GB of DDR4 memory, and of course, an RGB keyboard and light bar with Asus’ Aura Sync. It currently sells for about $1,700. Habba did not immediately respond to a request for comment about what the exact model of the laptop was, how often she games on it, or if Trump has ever watched her play on it.
Alina Habba Salary
Habba earns an annual salary of about $100,000 -$500,000.
Alina Habba Net Worth
Habba has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which she has earned through her career as a lawyer.
Alina Habba Social Media Platform
Habba is very active on her Twitter and Facebook pages. She has 134.8k followers on Twitter and 148.8k followers on Instagram.