by Steven Richards at Just the News
The House Oversight Committee on Monday released a transcript of closed-door testimony from ex-Hunter Biden business partner Eric Schwerin that appears to contradict the White House’s account of how Joe Biden received and sent loan money with his family members.
The White House and Biden’s brother have categorized the money transfers from Biden family members to Joe Biden, shortly after he left the vice presidency, as “loan repayments.”
However, Schwerin, who prepared Joe Biden’s taxes, free of charge, told congressional investigators that he never saw any loans to family members, which raise fresh questions about payments from family members to Joe Biden.
One of the key revelations from the interview is, that while he was in business with Hunter Biden, Schwerin did accounting work for Joe Biden at no expense. Schwerin told the committee because of his work, he had access to Joe Biden’s bank accounts “through 2017.”
“And then when you were compiling all of the documents for Vice President Biden, did he ever give any loans, that you can recall?” committee investigators asked, according to the transcript reviewed by Just the News.
“Not – when I was compiling the documents, not that I recall,” Schwerin answered.
Schwerin told investigators he helped with the elder Biden’s taxes from 2009 until 2016 and continued to help with household finances through 2017—the year the committee documents the first “loan repayment” from Joe Biden’s brother, James.
“All right. So if there were loans made in 2017, you wouldn’t have seen them potentially?” the committee asked Schwerin.
“Potentially. That’s correct, yes,” he said.
In early September 2017,…
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