Last Updated Sep 25, 2017 10:22 PM EDT
There are at least six close advisers to President Trump who used private email addresses for government business, The New York Times reports Monday. Former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former chief strategist Steve Bannon were among those named by the report which cites current and former officials.
The New York Times also cites officials as saying other advisers, Gary D. Cohn and Stephen Miller, sent or received at least a few emails on personal accounts.
Late Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CBS News what personnel are instructed to do with work-related communication.
"All White House personnel have been instructed to use official email to conduct all government related work," Sanders wrote. "They are further instructed that if they receive work-related communication on personal accounts, they should be forwarded to official email accounts."
Mr. Trump repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign about the email investigation surrounding the former secretary of state during President Obama's administration. Clinton used a private email server for official government business. The FBI investigated her use of the server and found that nothing was found to warrant criminal charges against her.
Monday's revelation comes on the heels of news that Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law of President Trump, used a private email to conduct White House business.
In a statement, Kushner's lawyer Abbe Lowell said that Kushner uses his White House email address, but used his personal account between January and August.
"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," Lowell said.
"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," Lowell added. "All non-personal emails were forwarded to his official address and all have been preserved in any event."
