LEGAL/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump, the first daughter and adviser to the president, used a personal email address to communicate with a government official after her father took office, according to documents that the nonprofit American Oversight obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and shared exclusively with Newsweek.
The documents show that on February 28, Trump—identifying herself as Ivanka Kushner—emailed Linda McMahon, the administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, from a personal domain. At the time, Trump was operating inside the White House in a nonofficial capacity. She wrote that she wanted McMahon’s agency and her staff to ‘explore opportunities to collaborate’ on issues related to ‘women’s entrepreneurship.’ She copied on the correspondence the government email addresses of two other federal employees, Dina Powell and Julie Radford…
Ivanka Trump was sitting in on White House meetings around the time she sent the email, including one between her father and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a gathering of the business advisory council.
The news that Trump used a personal email address for government work follows the disclosure on Sunday that Jared Kushner—Trump’s husband and a senior adviser to President Donald Trump—also used a personal email address for official work. That disclosure was made by Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Kushner…
Now that Trump is an official employee at the White House, her communications are not subject to FOIA requests—although they are subject to a law that requires them to be preserved.”
-Max Kutner and Nina Burleigh, “IVANKA TRUMP USED A PERSONAL EMAIL ACCOUNT FOR GOVERNMENT WORK: EXCLUSIVE,” Newsweek, Sept. 25, 2017 02:20pm