President-elect Donald Trump has picked Lebanon-born businessman Massad Boulos — whose son Michael Boulos is married to his daughter Tiffany Trump — as a senior adviser on Middle Eastern affairs.
The older Boulos has been described as a "billionaire attorney" in articles. But a New York Times article Thursday reported the billionaire claim was dubious.
Now, according to Business Insider's Jack Newsham, "public records and interviews" indicate that he "appears to be neither a billionaire nor a licensed attorney."
President-elect Trump "apparently inflated Boulos' resumé,” the report states.
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"Business Insider found no proof of Boulos' supposed billions," according to Newsham. "And while he may have attended law school, he hasn't passed a bar exam and can't practice law."
Newsham adds that Massad Boulos "doesn't run" the company Boulos Enterprises, according to "several former employees and its actual boss, Boulos Boulos."
"A due-diligence report for Boulos Enterprises Ltd. created by Moody's Orbis database doesn't mention Massad Boulos," Newsham reports. "Archived copies of the Boulos Group website from 2016 and 2018 didn't mention him, either. And Elephant Africa Holding, a Mauritius company created by the Boulos Group to hold its paper businesses, also doesn't mention Massad in its corporate filings."
Newsham notes that Massad Boulos, whose son met Tiffany Trump in Greece in 2018, has been "credited in news stories with playing a key role in Donald Trump's 2024 electoral victory, helping peel Arab-American voters away from Democrats in battlegrounds like Michigan."
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