Jared Kushner, White House princeling, senior adviser, and resident rule-breaker, has once again found himself in a frightful pickle of his own making. Kushner reportedly ruffled feathers on Capitol Hill by not being forthcoming about the personal e-mail account he has been using for months to communicate about elements of official White House business with other West Wing staffers. CNN obtained a letter that the chair and vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence sent Kushner after they had learned through news reports that his attorney had confirmed that he had sent and received about 100 e-mails from a personal address hosted on a private server. "These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an e-mail to his personal rather than his White House address," Abbe Lowell, his attorney, said in a statement.

The existence of this personal account was news to Senate Intelligence committee members, who interviewed Kushner for hours in July as part of their inquiry into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. Their letter asked Kushner to double check that he had turned over every relevant document, including those from his " ‘personal e-mail account,’ described to the news media, as well as all other e-mail accounts, messaging apps, or similar communications channels you may have used, or that may contain information relevant to our inquiry."

The concern, of course, is that Kushner may have left out necessary bits of communication, deliberately or otherwise. His failure to mention his use of a private e-mail account only raised suspicion that the committee could be missing relevant pieces of information that Kushner should have provided. Lowell told CNN: "We did review this account at the time, and there were no responsive or relevant documents there. The committee was so informed when documents were produced and there is no issue here."

Since taking his top West Wing role, Kushner has repeatedly run afoul of basic rules and standards of transparency. Keeping a personal e-mail account is not technically illegal, if he forwards official business to his government e-mail address, as Lowell said Kushner did. But it is unseemly and eyebrow-raising, considering his boss constantly hammered Hillary Clinton for her use of a private e-mail server in her role as secretary of state. Kushner also amended his security clearance form three times after leaving off more than 100 meetings with foreign officials, including those with four Russian officials during the campaign and transition period. And some would argue that his mere presence among his father-in-law’s senior staff breaks the anti-nepotism statute that has held for 50 years.

This was the latest development in what has been a trying week for Kushner. In a slipup that is almost comically emblematic of the Trump world’s gang-who-couldn’t-shoot-straight reputation, CNN reported that it obtained the Senate committee’s letter from the e-mail prankster who has, several times, impersonated White House advisers and people in the president’s circle in order to expose them or gain information. The huckster has seemingly duped Steve Bannon, White House attorney Ty Cobb, and, earlier this week, Lowell, whom he asked, while pretending to be Kushner, what he should do with e-mails he had exchanged with White House officials containing adult content. Business Insider published their exchange.

According to CNN, when received the Senate committee’s letter to Kushner on Thursday, the pranker’s e-mail account auto-filled when Lowell tried to forward it, and inadvertently sent it along. The prankster then shared it with CNN.