Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner has been revealed to have an additional private email account that got used to forward hundreds of emails including internal White House documents.
Information on the personal account came to light just days after the Senate Intelligence Committee complained that Kushner had failed to disclose to the committee an additional personal email account as it probes Russian interference in the elections.
The latest account was set up on a personal domain for Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter who joined the administration along with her husband, both in unpaid roles.
They set up the domain, ijkfamily.com, in December, Politico reported. Emails sent to the account included internal schedules, White House documents, and travel information.
Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner has been revealed to have an additional private email account that got used to forward hundreds of emails including internal White House documents
Some of the emails were sent by Ivanka Trump, while others were originated by her assistant, Bridges Lamar.
Both Kushner and Trump had access to the account and shared it with family staff, according to the report.
A person familiar with the set-up said the account was used daily.
A family representative told the publication Ivanka Trump has taken care to separate family from work matters.
‘Her White House assistant did not and does not work on these matters. Her personal and work obligations, schedule, travel arrangements and contacts were and are coordinated in accordance with this separation, as she was advised to do,’ according to the representative.
Kushner and Ivanka Trump set up the domain, ijkfamily.com, in December
Kushner failed to tell Senate Intelligence Committee investigators about his use of a private email account, panel members charged in an angry letter that only came to light last week because of a goof by Kushner’s high-powered lawyer.
‘The committee was concerned to learn of this additional email account from the news media, rather than from you, in your closed staff interview,’ committee chairman Sen. Richard Burr and Vice Chair Sen. John Warner scolded Kushner in their joint letter dated Thursday.
A prankster posing as Kushner wanted to know whether it was okay to delete an email from a White House official with a ‘shared interest’ in porn – a stunt that duped Kushner’s lawyer into a response
Kushner’s attorney accidentally forwarded the letter, marked ‘COMMITTEE SENSITIVE’ to the same person who had pranked him previously under a ruse where he posed as Kushner and sought advice about ‘adult’ emails located on his personal email account.
Lowell, upon receiving the letter from the committee, attempted to forward it – apparently and inadvertently sending it to the email prankster who tricked him instead of to the real Jared Kushner, his client.
The prankster had originally tricked Lowell into an email exchange using the fake address kushner.jared@mail.com while pretending to need advice about ‘adult’ emails he had uncovered in his in-box.
The address apparently then ended up in Lowell’s auto-fill feature when he attempted to forward the email.
A person familiar with the transmission told CNN, which first reported the story, that it got sent to the prankster by mistake.
Lawyer Abbe Lowell got fooled by the prankster, then forwarded a sensitive document from the Senate Intelligence Committee needling his client
The letter was marked ‘COMMITTEE SENSITIVE’ but got forwarded to the prankster and posted online
The prankster, who goes by @SINON_REBORN on Twitter, bragged about the feat online.
‘JARED KUSHNER’S LAWYER, ABBE, sent this to my FAKE JARED email address today!!!’ the prankster wrote, adding two emojis for emphasis.
The letter from the committee asked that he preserve emails and respond in writing.
‘Please confirm that the document production that you made to the committee – and any and all document searches of email accounts for that document production included the additional ‘personal email account’ described to the news media, as well as all other email accounts, messaging apps, or similar communications channels you may have used, or that may contain information relevant to our inquiry, they wrote.
‘As you are aware, this committee has previously requested that you preserve and produce certain documents related to the Russian inquiry—including, but not limited to, email communications.’
The committee is probing Russian interference in the presidential election and Russian contacts with Trump officials, a group that includes Kushner.
President Trump won office in part by railing against rival Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email, calling for her to release thousands of deleted emails. Clinton was found to be using a home email server for all of her government work.