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The brother-in-law of Conservative Party campaign manager Jenni Byrne broke ethics rules by taking a job with a lobbying firm during the so-called “cooling off” period required of former ministerial staff, the federal ethics commissioner said Tuesday.

Dan Kosick, who is married to Byrne’s sister, Jerra, and now works for Human Resources Minister Pierre Poilievre, was found to have breached the Conflict of Interest Act after leaving government in 2013.

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Kosick had served as a policy adviser to then-Human Resources minister Diane Finley from 2010 until August 2013, when he joined lobbying and public relations company Flagship Solutions, Inc. – a firm he had dealings with in his job with Finley.

Under the ethics law, public-office holders must wait one year after leaving their jobs before working for someone they had significant dealings with in government.

“I concluded that that Mr. Kosick clearly had direct and significant official dealings with Flagship during his last year in office,” Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson concluded in her report, released Tuesday.