by Steven Richards at Just the News
A newly released transcript from the House Oversight Committee reviewed by Just the News shows that one of Hunter Biden’s ex-business partners testified that he prepared documents for Joe Biden’s taxes and helped to pay the vice president’s bills from 2009 to 2016 free of charge.
This arrangement appears to be absent from then-Vice President Biden’s financial disclosures, which may raise further questions in the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president and his opaque relationships with his son’s business partners. For his part, Biden has repeatedly denied having any relationship with his son’s businesses or his son’s partners.
Despite those denials, Eric Schwerin, a longtime business partner to Hunter Biden, said he acted as a financial adviser to Joe Biden from 2009 to 2017, and had access to Joe Biden’s bank accounts and was a cosigner on at least one account. He told congressional investigators he provided tax assistance and financial services to the then-vice president as a “favor for a friend” and performed the services for free, an arrangement that may run afoul of financial disclosure laws, experts told Just the News.
Hunter Biden’s ex-partner told investigators his work for Joe Biden did not take up much time on an annual basis compared to his other work for Rosemont Seneca Advisors. “It didn’t take a lot of time in that a lot of things were very automated. I mean, a lot of it was by autopay,” Schwerin said of his help paying bills and managing the vice president’s day-to-day finances. Schwerin insisted that while he did have interactions with Joe Biden, he did not “take any actions to benefit his son.”
Nonetheless, Schwerin helped accountants prepare Joe Biden’s taxes…
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