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Who is Eric Schwerin? What to know about Hunter Biden’s business partner

April 30, 2022

 

https://nypost.com/2022/04/30/who-is-eric-schwerin-what-to-know-about-hunter-bidens-business-partner/

 

Eric Schwerin became one of Hunter Biden’s closest friends, business associates, and an emotional “pillar” to the president’s troubled second son over a 20-year relationship that transformed the enigmatic moneyman into a D.C. power player. The 52-year-old fixer — who made at least 27 visits to the White House and other official venues during the Obama/Biden presidency — is likely to be a focus of a looming Republican House probe into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings. While Schwerin has not personally been accused of any wrongdoing, his deep personal and financial ties to both Joe and Hunter Biden continue to cast doubt on past claims from President Biden that he had no involvement in his son’s business dealings. Hunter Biden and Schwerin likely first met when they worked in President Bill Clinton’s Commerce Department. Schwerin arrived at the agency in 1994 with a sterling resume, having earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Before graduating he spent a year in Czechoslovakia as an English teacher. Schwerin rose through the ranks quickly, becoming an International Trade Specialist in 1997, before claiming the title of senior policy advisor to the Secretary for International Trade in 1999. “I worked with him in the Department of Commerce and I always found him to be a good and decent guy. A nice pleasant guy,” one former colleague told The Post of Schwerin.

 

Hunter Biden was the same age as Schwerin and fresh out of Yale Law School, where he had won admission after President Clinton personally lobbied Dean Guido Calabresi to admit him. After bouncing around some cushy banking gigs in Delaware, he landed at Commerce as a “policy director specializing in the burgeoning Internet economy,” according to the New Yorker. The pair hit it off. When George W. Bush became president, Hunter Biden left government and started a lobbying shop with William Oldaker, a D.C. lawyer who worked on his father’s aborted 1988 presidential campaign. In 2002 Schwerin joined them and became a partner in the company, lobbying disclosure forms show. His first visit was in October 2009 with Evan Ryan, Vice President Biden’s assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison. He would meet Biden himself in the West Wing in November 2010, The Post exclusively reported. Between 2009 and the end of 2016, Schwerin made at least 27 official visits to the White House and other official locations, Obama administration visitor logs show. Just months after Schwerin met in the West Wing with Kellen Suber, an executive assistant to Vice President Biden, Hunter was feted in Hong Kong with his partner Jim Bulger by Che Feng, a shadowy Chinese tycoon identified in the hard drive as “Superchairman.” Feng is the son-in- law of Dai Xianglong, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official. Schwerin met with Joe Biden aides in March and May of 2013. In June Hunter Biden entered into an agreement with Chinese businessman Jonathan Li to create BHR Partners. Joe Biden has consistently denied any involvement in his son’s shady foreign businesses.

 

“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” he said in 2019.

 

“If corporate media had any journalistic integrity, they would demand that Joe Biden explain why Hunter’s business partner, Eric Schwerin, was given access to the White House at least 27 times,” Sen Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told The Post this week. Schwerin and Hunter Biden had an apparent falling out in 2017, harshly-written emails from the hard drive show. “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,” Hunter snarled to Schwerin in a December 2017 email. “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.” Today, Schwerin continues to run an offshoot of Rosemont Seneca. In 2018 he founded RSP Investments, which a sparse website describes as a “broker-dealer focused on investment banking advisory and capital raising in the following sectors.” He doesn’t appear to be married. A Facebook profile shows him frequently traveling solo to scenic vacation spots sometimes accompanied by his dog Regis. The White House declined to comment for this story. Eric Schwerin did not respond to a request for comment.