Alina Habba hit with sanctions threat for 'baseless' claim against E. Jean Carroll lawyer
Roberta Kaplan, the attorney representing writer E. Jean Carroll in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, fired a warning shot at Trump lawyer Alina Habba on Tuesday.
Specifically, reports The Messenger, Kaplan replied to a claim made by Habba that Kaplan had an undisclosed conflict of interest because she worked for two years at the same law firm as Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case.
This claim by Habba has been widely panned by legal experts and Kaplan warned that she could face serious repercussions for making it.
"The length of our overlap [at the firm] was less than two years," Kaplan wrote in the letter. "During that relatively brief period more than thirty years ago, I do remember the partners I worked with and none of them was [Judge Lewis Kaplan]."
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Kaplan went on to shred Habba for making what she called a "baseless claim" about her relationship with the judge based on one anonymous quote in a New York Post story from someone who described Judge Kaplan as a "mentor" to her.
"While both the New York Post and Ms. Habba purport to cite the recollections of an 'unnamed partner'... that partner (if he even exists) clearly has a very flawed memory about events that occurred three decades ago."
Kaplan concluded her letter by stating that she reserved the right to "seek sanctions" against Habba in response to her claims.