Trenton, NJ – President Donald Trump On Monday, he called his one -time lawyer and current White House adviser to Alina Habba to be the best federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
Habba, which ends 41 on Tuesday, takes over a fleeting position from John Giordano, whose president said he called the US ambassador in the south -west African country of Namibia.
A partner in a diminutive law firm in New Jersey near the Trump Bedminster golf course, Habba served as a senior adviser to Trump’s political activities, defended him in court in several civil trials and acted as a spokesperson last year when he was between the courtroom and the campaign trail.
American lawyers often have experience as prosecutors, including at a state or local level. Many, including the duties of American lawyers in Brooklyn and Manhattan, worked in offices that are now running.
Habba said that she was waiting for cooperation with the Prosecutor General Pam bondi To implement the president’s program “Put America in the first place” and searching for people “we should go on”. She criticized the Democrats sleep. Cory Booker and gov. Phil Murphy for their management of the state.
“If you look at what happened in crime, what is happening in Newark, what is happening in Camden, it was neglected. This is one of the most populated states because of its size and must stop. We will do the work,” said Habba on Monday.
Booker and Murphy spokesmen did not answer immediately at the request for comment.
Camden officials said at the beginning of this year that crime rates using violence reached the 55-year lowest level, assigning the police department. Officials in Newark, the largest state city, said at the end of last year that the murder rates fell, but other levels of crime increased in 2024.
Habba was one of the most evident lawyers of Trump’s defense, appearing on cable television as his “legal spokesman”. Represented Trump in 2024 in The matter of defamation with the participation of E. Jean Carroll.
But Habba had constrained experience in the federal court, practicing mainly in courts at a state level. During the Carroll trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan scolded Habba for a diminutive procedure, distorting the law asking about unlimited topics and opposing after his rule.
Habba and Trump They were fined in the amount of almost $ 1 million in 2023. For submitting what the judge in Florida called a false lawsuit against the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Habba also represented Siggy Flicker, earlier “The Real Housewives of New Jersey”, in 2021, when she tried to restore her Facebook account, which, according to the star of reality, she was disabled after she set the first lady of Melania Trump for all the best.
Habba was the plaintiff’s advocate in 2021. I opposed defamation against the Portuguese weekly magazine, which was later dismissed.
Giordano was sworn in as a fleeting US prosecutor in New Jersey at the beginning of this month. Earlier he was an adviser to the assistant of the Prosecutor General in the environment and natural resources department. Giordano also served as a federal prosecutor in Virginia.
