USA Today reports Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both White House officials, have rerouted their personal email accounts to a server run by the Trump Organization. The move comes just days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller requested documents from the White House in relation to his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and any possibility of collusion with the Trump campaign.
On September 24th, Politico broke the news that Kushner is one of several Administration aides and advisors using personal email to conduct official White House business. USA Today and cybersecurity experts say internet registration records show Kushner and Trump moved their email accounts on either September 26th or 27th.
The internet domain Kushner used for his personal emails was first registered in December. In March, mail exchange records for Kushner and Trump’s family email domain, ijkfamily.com, directed messages to an email system run by Microsoft. The registration was updated at the end of September. Now it points to two mail serversused by the Trump Organization.
An anonymous spokesman for the couple claims their personal email "does not reside and never has resided in, nor passed through, through the Trump Organization email server."
Senate Intelligence Committee leadership already was not happy with Kushner for failing to disclose he had a private email account when he met with investigators in July.
This latest move invites additional scrutiny:
Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor, said that while the emails Kushner and Trump sent and received through their personal accounts could well have been innocuous – locating them on computers run by the Trump Organization “certainly creates the appearance of potential impropriety.”
Mariotti said the move raises questions about who at the Trump-owned company might have access to emails regarding White House business.
Exclusive: Jared Kushner's personal email re-routed to Trump Organization computers amid public scrutiny (USA Today)