Hunter Biden’s first son described his longtime business partner Eric Schwerin as a “close confidante and advisor” to then-Vice President Joe Biden, a newly discovered email from his first son’s infamous laptop shows.
The younger Biden, now 53, made this comment during an exchange with Schwerin in February 2014, who asked Hunter to review a letter of suggestion he had written on behalf of Joe Biden.
“Can you’re taking a have a look at the attachment? I will send it to your dad tomorrow (via Kathy) and desired to be sure you didn’t think it was overkill and that your dad can be completely happy to send it,” wrote Schwerin, who was the president of Hunter’s from disbanded investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners, in e-mail dated February 18.
The attached file was titled “JRB CFR Rec”, apparently referring to the Council on Foreign Relations. The email, posted online by the non-profit research group Marco Polo USA, also named Joe Biden’s longtime executive assistant Kathy Chung.
Hunter responded to the message on February 22, telling Schwerin that the letter was “good” before suggesting that he “ton down the ‘he and my son’ parts.”
“I believe it’s higher to simply deal with the undeniable fact that you were his close confidant and advisor and just say something like ‘as a business partner with my son at Rosemont Seneca…'” said Hunter.
Schwerin replied several hours later, saying “That was the one part I wasn’t sure about – he was attempting to be sure the reader understood that there was a real connection, that it wasn’t just a letter he was writing to a friend of a friend or something.”
He added: “I’ve already sent it to Kathy, but I’m unsure if she forwarded it to him, so I will make these changes.”
In March 2015, 13 months after the exchange, then-President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Schwerin as a member of the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad — which works to guard historic sites in Central and Eastern Europe related to the USA.
Schwerin has long-standing ties to the Biden family – despite the president repeatedly insisting he “never spoke” to his son Hunter about “his foreign interests.”
Visitor logs show that Schwerin visited the White House and other official venues 27 times while Biden was Obama’s vp.
Other e-mails from the laptop also indicate how Schwerin was deeply involved within the Biden clan’s funds – he transferred money to each father and son.
Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle also revealed in her memoir If We Break that Schwerin handled “almost every aspect” of the family’s financial affairs.
“Up until now, Eric has managed almost every aspect of our financial life, so our relationship has been awkward. Perhaps one which was born out of mutual need. But I trusted him,” Buhle wrote, describing meeting Schwerin at a cocktail party within the Dominican Republic.
Much more emails from 2010 show that Schwerin was involved within the transfer of Joe Biden’s Senate documents to the University of Delaware – a haul that was later searched by investigators investigating Biden’s mishandling of “sensitive” and “secret” documents.
Despite his ties to Hunter and the Biden family, Schwerin has not been charged with any wrongdoing as the primary son still faces a federal investigation for possible tax evasion and other violations stemming from his overseas business dealings.
Schwerin is one in every of those asked to offer documentation – including on Hunter’s interests in Ukraine and China – to the House Oversight Committee as a part of an ongoing investigation into whether Biden’s members of the family used the name of the then vp as leverage.
A commission spokesman told The Post last week that Schwerin’s lawyer was set to start out handing over the documents “soon” – but Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has thus far refused to comply with the request.
Similar requests were also made to James Biden’s first brother – and so they too were denied.