In a similar case to the criticism that rocked former Democrats Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during the election campaign, Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and a White House senior adviser used his personal email account to conduct official government business, Abbe Lowell, his lawyer acknowledged on Sunday, according to a New York Times report.

Abbe said Mr. Kushner, through the personal account, had received or sent “fewer than a hundred emails” involving his White House colleagues over the first seven months of the administration. Mr. Lowell also claimed the emails were all forwarded to Mr. Kushner’s official account, creating a record.

• The peculiarity of Kushner’s case

Though not the only official in the White House who has been found to have used private email or text messaging for government business, but Kushner is the person closest to the president to have his personal email use become public and the issue has raised questions about the administration’s preservation of records.

Kushner’s case will obviously spark criticism from the opposition especially at a time when some of Trump’s allies outside the White House are urging him to press for a prosecution of Mrs. Clinton, even though an F.B.I. investigation into her handling of classified information has been closed.

• Mr Lowell’s defense

In his defense, Mr. Lowell said through a statement, “Mr. Kushner uses his White House email address to conduct White House business. 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.”

He added, “These usually forwarded news articles or political commentary and most often occurred when someone initiated the exchange by sending an email to his personal, rather than his White House, address. All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event.”

• Officials’ comments

According to two people who have exchanged emails with Mr. Kushner on his personal account, the account was set up during the transition period, when he was stepping back from his real estate company and needed a new email address.

A government official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that unlike in the Clinton case, Mr. Kushner had not set up a private server to house the personal email account. While Mrs. Clinton used her personal account exclusively, the official said that Mr. Kushner does use his government account.

Another source with a privy knowledge of Mr. Kushner’s email use disclosed that other officials in the administration, including Stephen K. Bannon, the former chief strategist, and Reince Priebus, the former White House chief of staff, had also used personal email accounts for what could be adjudged as government business.

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