Kushner Lawyer Fooled By R-Rated Email Prankster Posing As Jared

By Nathan Guttman September 26, 2017

Despite his years of experience in dealing with some of Washington’s highest profile legal cases, top lawyer Abbe Lowell fell for a simple email prank which caused him to reveal some of the tactics employed in defending his client Jared Kushner.

Business Insider reported that the prankster posed as Kushner and requested Lowell’s advise regarding “some correspondence on my private email … featuring adult content.”

Kushner has reportedly used his private email account for work related issues while serving as President Trump’s senior adviser.

In the email exchange with the person posing as Kushner, Lowell tried to warn against disposing of any emails from his account, and inquired into the nature of the “adult content” mentioned.

“I’m so embarrassed. It’s fairly specialist stuff, half naked women on a trampoline, standing on lego scenes, the tag for the movie was #standingOnTheLittlePeople :(,” the prankster wrote Lowell, asking if they could “bury” the whole thing.

Lowell replied: “Don’t delete. Don’t send to anyone. Let’s chat in a bit.”

Contact Nathan Guttman at [email protected] or on Twitter @nathanguttman

Nathan Guttman, staff writer, was the Forward’s Washington bureau chief. He joined the staff in 2006 after serving for five years as Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In Israel, he was the features editor for Ha’aretz and chief editor of Channel 1 TV evening news. He was born in Canada and grew up in Israel. He is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

The coming year promises to be filled with more complex and historic developments. We are entering an era where independent, fact-based Jewish journalism will be more important than ever. We need to be ready for whatever 2025 will bring, and with your help, we can be.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO