President Trump granted Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera a full and unconditional pardon in October 2026, weeks after Herrera's family hired former Trump lawyer Alina Habba for a $50 million job at Concord Partners, a company with no public profile. Herrera had already pled felony bribery charges down to a misdemeanor. Reporting has since established that Habba finalized the Concord Partners contract while still serving as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, and that she held a special government employee arrangement allowing outside income during her 130 days at DOJ. Herrera's daughter, an American citizen, also donated $3.5 million to a Trump-backed super PAC. The discussion centers on whether the hire, the donation and the pardon amount to pay-for-play.