The Daily Beast reports:

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s son quietly landed a top job in the Trump administration as his father ruled on huge cases involving the president.

Philip Alito, 39, got the political appointee job as a lawyer in the Treasury Department in the early days of Trump’s second term, NOTUS reported. The “sheepish” Alito was acutely aware of the nepotism and laid low once he got through the door, according to sources.

The office provides legal and policy advice to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. NOTUS spoke to a handful of sources who confirmed the move, and also obtained a functional Treasury email address for the younger Alito.

The arrangement was secretive. Philip Alito maintains no public resume, has no LinkedIn profile, and is not listed anywhere on the Treasury Department’s website.

His three professional bar listings are either outdated or list incorrect employers. Inside the building, he kept a deliberately low profile.

“Everybody knew who he was,” one former official with direct knowledge told NOTUS. “He kept a pretty low profile. I kind of had the impression that he was kind of a little bit sheepish about his celebrity affiliation. You’d go into a meeting, and if people were introducing themselves by first and last name, he’d just say ‘Phil,’ not Phil Alito. He’s a pretty soft-spoken guy.”

A second source was less charitable about how he got the job. “There’s no doubt he got that position because of who he is,” they said. As an attorney-adviser, Philip Alito “would get briefed on all kinds of important Treasury matters and offer legal feedback” and was “in all the meetings, so they knew all the issues across the board,” the source added. [Continue reading…]