The résumé of Massad Boulos, Donald Trump’s latest choose as senior adviser on Arab and Center Japanese affairs, has reportedly been broadly overstated within the media with out obvious correction — till now.

Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman and father-in-law to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, doesn’t seem like a billionaire, as he’s been beforehand described, The New York Occasions reported Thursday.As an alternative, he’s extra precisely described as a “small-time truck salesman” in Nigeria, in accordance with the paper.

Boulos is chief government of SCOA Nigeria PLC, an organization that sells vans and heavy equipment in Nigeria, and is managed by Boulos’s father-in-law.

The corporate made lower than $66,000 in revenue final 12 months and is valued at $865,000, in accordance with company information obtained by the Occasions. Boulos’s stake within the firm, in accordance with the information, is value lower than $2.

Trump has claimed Boulos is an “completed lawyer and a extremely revered chief within the enterprise world, with intensive expertise on the worldwide scene,” and media studies have described Boulos as getting a legislation diploma from the College of Houston. The varsity instructed the Occasions it has no report of that.

Boulos Enterprises, a agency media studies have pointed to in reference to Boulos, truly belongs to a unique household with the identical final title, an officer there instructed the paper.

When requested earlier this 12 months if studies that his firm is a “multi-billion-dollar enterprise” had been correct, Boulos mentioned he didn’t like to explain it that manner. When pressed, he mentioned his companies had been a part of a “large firm” that had a “lengthy historical past” and could possibly be described that manner.

In an interview with the Occasions, Boulos mentioned his father-in-law’s firms, together with SCOA, are collectively value greater than $1 billion. He mentioned that he didn’t instantly touch upon media studies as a result of “I’ve by no means actually gone into any particulars like that in regards to the worth.”

The Unbiased has contacted the Trump transition workforce and SCOA Nigeria PLC for remark. It was unable to succeed in Boulos straight for remark.

Boulos, who helped the Trump marketing campaign win over Arab-American voters in the course of the election, isn’t the one member of the brand new administration who has confronted questions on his background.

Trump lawyer basic choose Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration final month as the previous congressman confronted allegations he paid for intercourse and had intercourse with a minor, which he has all the time strongly denied.

The administration’s choose for secretary of protection, former Fox Information anchor Pete Hegseth, has been accused of rape and alcohol abuse, which he denies.