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Re: Desperate TRUMP Accuses Judge of INCESTUOUS Mentor Relationship With Carrolls' La
TRUMPS' DIRTY Fighting: Attorney Alina Habba Accuses Judge of INCESTUOUS Mentor Relationship With Carrolls' Attorney Roberta Kaplan - The Two are NOT Related.
Judge Lewis Kaplan Had Previously Issued a 'Jail Time' Warning to Attorney Alina Habba
Donalds' lawyers reveal how they plan to challenge $83.3 MILLION jury verdict in E Jean Carroll case - as they discover 'startling link between the writer and the Judge'.
MailOnline 28 JAN 2024
A representative for Roberta Kaplan dismissed the claims, saying they merely briefly overlapped at the same law firm in the early 1990s
Trumps firebrand attorney Alina Habba claimed she was unaware that Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan - who are not related - worked together in the early 1990s, with the judge serving as her 'mentor'.
'It was never disclosed. It's insane and so incestuous,' Habba said, arguing their alleged close relationship was never disclosed and she only became aware of it after the conclusion of the case.
Habba continued: 'This is news to us. We are going to include this in our appeal and take appropriate measures. The fact it wasn't disclosed is an ethics violation.'
The allegations of a conflict of interest were bolstered by an anonymous former Weiss partner, who reportedly claimed Roberta Kaplan - a junior associate - made an extra effort to stand out to the managing partners.
'Lew was like her mentor,' they claimed.
Before becoming a founding partner at law firm Kaplan, Keckler & Fink in 2016, Roberta Kaplan worked alongside the judge at Paul, Weiss Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison in Manhattan.
She began at the firm in 1992, according to her LinkedIn, where Judge Kaplan was a partner until he was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
In a statement to the Post, representative for Roberta Kaplan, Zak Sawyer, denied there was any conflict of interest and said the two barely knew each other.
'They overlapped for less than two years in the early 1990s at a large law firm when he was a senior partner and she was a junior associate and she never worked for him,' he said.
Judge Kaplan clashed with Trumps legal team on numerous occasions in the fiery defamation trial, including threatening to 'lock up' Habba as she continuously interrupted proceedings.
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