Hunter Biden business partner's free financial services to father raise new ethics concerns

Anewly 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.