Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner visited Obama WH more than previously disclosed

Hunter Biden’s former bestie and longtime business partner, Eric Schwerin, spent much more time in the Obama White House and in former Vice President Biden’s residence than was previously disclosed.

Schwerin, who was the founding partner and managing director of Rosemont Seneca Partners, visited the Obama White House and Biden’s home dozens of times between 2009 and 2016, according to Fox News. He has not been charged with any wrongdoing yet, but he is reportedly the next target of the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

Fox News previously reported that Schwerin had visited the White House and vice presidential residence at least 27 times. That number has been bumped up to 36 visits.

Former President Obama appointed Schwerin to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in early 2015. He was reappointed by Obama to the commission in January 2017.

“Eric asked for one of these the day after the election in 2008,” Hunter Biden noted concerning Schwerin’s initial appointment via an email on March 13, 2015.

Fox News reported, “The number of Schwerin’s White House visits could be much higher than 36 if any of his meetings fell under the White House voluntary disclosure policy exception of ‘purely personal guests,’ due to his handling of the Biden family’s personal finances.”

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“The White House will not release access records related to purely personal guests of the first and second families (i.e., visits that do not involve any official or political business),” the Obama administration’s archived website asserts.

The Obama administration deciding what was “official or political business” would be purely subjective just as it is with the Biden administration. It’s like having the fox guard the henhouse.

“One of Schwerin’s visits – in November 2010 – was a sit-down with Joe Biden in the West Wing. Schwerin also visited Joe Biden’s residence at least 15 times for various holiday receptions, including the Dec. 12 holiday reception in 2015 that came a couple of days after then-Vice President Biden’s infamous trip to Ukraine, where he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid if the country’s leaders did not fire their top prosecutor,” Fox News recounted.

“According to White House visitor logs, Schwerin attended the reception along with Rosemont Seneca co-founder Devon Archer, Hunter Biden and Sebastian Momtazi, an associate who worked with Archer in Rosemont Seneca’s New York City office. Archer, who was also on the Burisma board with Hunter Biden, and Momtazi both had Burisma.com email addresses, according to emails previously reviewed by Fox News Digital,” the media outlet continued.

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A former Senate staffer confirmed that Joe Biden was photographed at the Dec. 12, 2015, holiday party.

In April of 2015, Schwerin visited then-Vice President Biden’s residence for a “meeting” according to visitor logs. It doesn’t say who Schwerin met with or whether Joe Biden was present. The meeting is almost assuredly going to be questioned by Republicans because it occurred one day before Biden’s dinner at Cafe Milano with multiple Hunter business associates, including top Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi. It appears that Schwerin attended that dinner as well.

According to Fox News, “Archer confirmed last week that the elder Biden showed up at the upscale Georgetown restaurant Cafe Milano on April 16 and ‘had dinner’ with several of Hunter’s business associates including ‘Vadym P. from Burisma,’ blowing the lid off the narrative that the Biden campaign and Biden White House repeatedly pushed denying Biden attended the dinner.”

During the Obama-Biden administration, Schwerin met with several of Biden’s aides, including meeting twice with Steve Ricchetti, who was Biden’s chief of staff at the time and is currently White House counselor, in 2016.

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He also met with Anne Marie Person, who served as a general assistant at Rosemont Seneca until 2014 before joining Biden’s office. They got together at least three times between February and June 2016, a Fox News Digital review uncovered.

Schwerin also met with John McGrail, who was a counselor to Biden, twice at the White House in 2016.

Hunter Biden’s former business partner also reportedly met with Kaitlyn Demers, who was serving as an associate counsel in Biden’s office in 2016.

Last but not least, Schwerin met with Evan Ryan in 2009, who is married to Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken and is currently serving as the White House cabinet secretary. That’s the earliest documented White House visit for him.

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Over the course of a number of years, Schwerin also met with several Biden executive assistants.

He is seen as a Biden money man and a fixer. Schwerin quashed a Bloomberg News story about Hunter Biden in 2015, according to emails published in March.

Schwerin has had a falling out with Hunter Biden and his testimony concerning the business dealings of the Biden clan are expected to be explosive.

By December 2017, Schwerin and Hunter Biden were no longer friends. The first son attempted to cut ties with Schwerin.

“I terminated you as an at will employee for gross negligence. Also if you continue to sit with friends of mine and relationships that are mine and defame me I will sue you for defamation of character and embezzlement and for the debt with you still have not contributed your supposed 25% share of,” Hunter wrote on Dec. 12, 2017, according to the New York Post.

“ … We are no longer just done as business partners you should consider moving to somewhere in Florida I’ll never go. Naples is perfect you can live in perpetual time share with your parents and talk about what a horrible person I am,” he sneered.

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