Hunter Biden associate visited Obama White House, VP residence at least 36 times: report

First son Hunter Biden's longtime business associate Eric Schwerin appears to have visited the Obama White House and then-Vice President Joe Biden's place of residence more times between 2009 and 2016 than previously known.

Though Fox News originally reported that Schwerin visited either the White House or the vice presidential residence on Observatory Circle a total of 27 times during the Obama administration, the outlet has since discovered additional visits and increased the total to at least 36 visits to either location.

Schwerin previously served as the managing director of Rosemont Seneca Partners, Hunter Biden's now-defunct organization. In February of this year, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer revealed that Schwerin had begun cooperating with the committee's investigations into the Biden family and its allegedly illicit foreign dealings.

In 2015, Schwerin secured an appointment from President Barack Obama to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad and was reappointed in 2017.

White House visitor logs and records show that Schwerin regularly met with the then-vice president himself. In one instance, that Fox highlighted, Schwerin attended a holiday reception on Dec. 12, 2015, that immediately followed Biden's trip to Ukraine during which he threatened to withhold foreign aid from the country if they did not fire Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the firm Burisma, where Hunter Biden sat on the board.

News of Schwerin's frequent White House visits follows the testimony of former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer, who outlined a scheme wherein first son Hunter Biden would leverage his proximity to his father to secure lucrative foreign business deals.

Biden himself has repeatedly denied involvement in any of his son's business dealings, though Archer has testified that the president regularly called in to his son's business meetings, even if only to make small talk or put in an appearance.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.