Jared Kushner's lawyer fooled by email prankster - 'adult content in my private email'
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[url]http://uk.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-lawyer-email-prankster-private-2017-9[/url]
[quote]On Monday, the prankster wrote to Lowell from the address [email]kushner.jared@mail.com[/email] 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."
[B]"But we can bury it?" the prankster responded. "I'm so embarrassed. It's fairly specialist stuff, half naked women on a trampoline, standing on legoscenes, the tag for the movie was #standingOnTheLittlePeople :("
Lowell replied: "Don't delete. Don't send to anyone. Let's chat in a bit."[/B]
Lowell declined to comment on the record when asked about the exchange. He said in a previous statement that "fewer than a hundred emails from January through August were either sent to or returned by Mr. Kushner to colleagues in the White House from his personal email account."[/quote]
Plot twist: It was him all along and they're just pretending it was a prankster because this became public.
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Lowell replied: "Don't delete. Don't send to anyone. Let's chat in a bit."[/QUOTE]
Translated: ...Source?
[QUOTE=Snapster;52727590][media]https://twitter.com/SINON_REBORN/status/913493359846715393[/media]
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Begging for money for doing pranks... Christ...
[QUOTE=Snapster;52727590][media]https://twitter.com/SINON_REBORN/status/913493359846715393[/media]
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this dude seems like a douche
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52730080]The guy should be careful. Impersonating someone to intercept their mail is probably super illegal.[/QUOTE]
Except this was sent unsolicited; the lawyer was tricked into replying to the prankster's email the first time and then his email client autofilled the prankster's email when he tried to send the real Kushner a legitimate email on a different day.
You can't really blame someone for "making" you call them if they fatfinger their call log and immediately blurt out sensitive info to the prank caller that called them one call prior to the person they really wanted to call back.
[QUOTE=Dave_Parker;52730704]I’d sooner compare it to switching out his speeddial. Yeah he hits 1 and starts talking but someone else deliberately put themselves under 1[/QUOTE]
Except it's [I]his[/I] email client and he should've done the due diligence of checking who he was sending it to. The other guy didn't do anything to his client to have his address come up first in the autosuggest.
At the end of the day, the lawyer fucked up. Why are you trying to shift responsibility to a dude who pranked him [I]once[/I] only a few days before. You'd think the guy would be even more vigilant. If this happened a year later the oversight would be understandable.
While there aren't explicit laws concerning the sanctity of email, the act of intentional impersonation, the publishing of correspondence from a lawyer not intended for himself, and a few other things all do probably build up to a substantial violation of privacy.
Although I doubt it would be a criminal case, unless there was an exceptionally good charge to be brought, I do think that Kushner, or at least his lawyer, probably have a reasonable civil case to be made assuming they could claim some level of damages.
If the dude is going to get sued or charged, it'll be for specifically [I]publishing[/I] the letter Kushner's lawyer sent him by mistake.
The prank itself is a fairly harmless, if embarrassing, act of impersonation. [I]Maybe[/I] a lawsuit could be filed over that, but Kushner/his lawyer would look pretty petty. The fact that the lawyer fucked up and sent the wrong guy confidential documents shouldn't result in any problems for the guy who received them.
The fact that he published those documents, though, that's a blatant privacy infringement and a violation of lawyer-client confidentality. That's when he made the decision to abuse the privileged communication he received by accident.
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