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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOkay, now this is hilarious. Jared's lawyer gets punked.
Jared Kushner's lawyer, fooled by 'email prankster,' offers window into private email controversyAbbe Lowell, a top Washington lawyer, exchanged emails on Monday with a prankster posing as his client Jared Kushner, at one point telling the prankster he needed to see "all emails" sent and received from a private email account Kushner had set up in December.
The exchange, masterminded by amateur Trump-Russia sleuth Jeff Jetton and executed by a prankster who tweets as @SINON_REBORN, comes as Kushner is dealing with his own minor email scandal and offers a window into how his team is responding in its initial stages.
Politico reported on Sunday that Kushner had used a private email address to communicate with top White House officials, including the former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former chief strategist Steve Bannon. The New York Times reported on Monday night that as many as six top White House officials, including Priebus and Bannon, had used private email accounts to discuss White House matters.
Lowell's exchange with the man posing as Kushner marks the second time this month that a top lawyer representing a senior White House official corresponded with the prankster thinking he was a colleague or client. The White House special counsel, Ty Cobb, disclosed information about the FBI's Russia investigation to the prankster earlier this month thinking he was the White House social-media director, Dan Scavino.
On Monday, the prankster wrote to Lowell from the address kushner.jared@mail.com asking what he should do with "some correspondence on my private email ... featuring adult content."
"Can I remove these?" the prankster asked.
"Forwarded or received from WH officials?" Lowell responded.
"I think one was forwarded from a White House official, we had discussed a shared interest of sorts," the prankster said. "It was unsolicited. Then there are a handful more, but not from officials."
"I need to see I think all emails between you and WH (just for me and us)," Lowell wrote. "We need to send any officials emails to your WH account. Not stuff like you asked about. None of those are going anywhere."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-lawyer-email-prankster-private-2017-9
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Okay, now this is hilarious. Jared's lawyer gets punked. (Original Post)
catbyte
Sep 2017
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. White House porn
MagickMuffin
(15,958 posts)2. Paging Ted Cruz
He can give 'em some advice on this sort of thing!