Newly released emails have revealed that former Vice President Joe Biden allegedly used a pseudonym to exchange over 50 emails with a business associate of his son, Hunter Biden.
The emails were sent to Eric Schwerin, a close business associate and accountant of Hunter Biden, under the alias "Robin Ware," according to an email search released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday.
The email data was provided to the committee by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, who testified behind closed doors alongside fellow IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.
The majority of these email exchanges between Biden and Schwerin occurred around spring 2014, coinciding with the period when Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings.
Prior to Biden's trip to Ukraine in June 2014, he reportedly emailed Schwerin five times, and after his visit, the pair exchanged 27 emails. Biden, who was the Obama administration's point man on Ukraine issues, traveled to Ukraine again in November 2014.
In total, Biden and Schwerin communicated 327 times, with Hunter Biden copied on 38 emails from White House accounts to a then-VP Biden email alias. Biden used a different alias in May 2016 to keep Hunter Biden informed about his planned meeting with Ukraines then-president, as revealed by Hunter Bidens abandoned laptop archive.
In August, the House Oversight Committee requested records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) related to the aliases Biden appeared to use for government purposes. The following month, NARA allowed the Oversight Committee to view a small portion of the emails where Biden used his aliases.
NARA reported in October that it possesses over 5,000 emails potentially related to Bidens pseudonyms and discovered 82,000 potentially responsive records related to the aliases.
The Ways and Means Committee released 56 new pages of documents on Tuesday, including the email search. In September, the committee released more than 700 pages of documents to support Shapley and Zieglers initial testimony accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of giving Hunter Biden special treatment during its ongoing investigation.
Witness testimony from DOJ, FBI, and IRS officials has confirmed key aspects of the IRS whistleblower testimony, as outlined in a report released by House Republicans on Tuesday morning.
Bank records show that Burisma paid Hunter Biden more than $80,000 per month to be a board member of the company, despite his lack of experience with Ukraine or the energy sector.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Schwerin in November to discuss Hunter Bidens foreign business dealings in a closed-door deposition. Schwerin visited the White House on at least 27 occasions during the Obama administration, according to archived visitor logs.
Archived emails show that Schwerin coordinated with then-VP Bidens office to handle media strategy ahead of a trip Biden took to Ukraine in December 2015. The Oversight Committee wrote a letter to NARA in September demanding access to those communications and other correspondence between Bidens vice presidential office and his sons business associates.
Schwerin managed the finances for Hunter Biden and his family before the pair had a falling out, as reported by the New York Post based on a memoir written by Kathleen Buhle, Hunters ex-wife. Hunter Biden once described Schwerin as a close confidant in a February 2014 email exchange from his abandoned laptop archive.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith stated, Suspiciously, email traffic between Joe Biden and Schwerin would routinely increase before and after the Vice Presidents various trips to Ukraine.
Hundreds of messages from alias emails raise questions of whether Joe Biden was trying to hide the existence and content of these messages. If investigators had not been stonewalled, the IRS investigation into Hunter Bidens tax fraud and business dealings would have naturally laid bare Joe Bidens direct involvement.
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