Habba may have used a fake person in trump trial.Excerpt:Trump...

Habba may have used a fake person in trump trial.

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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.