29. A federal nepotism law, enacted after President John F. Kennedy made his brother, Robert, attorney general, prevents a public official from appointing a relative “to a civilian position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises jurisdiction or control”. Ethics expert, who asked not to be named because of current representation for government figures, said to The Guardian that as long as J. Kushner and the Trump children are not federal employees, whether paid or unpaid, but are simply “hanging around the White House a lot”, they may dance around the law.
