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House Republicans plan to hear testimony from several additional witnesses who did business with Hunter Biden this week as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Biden.<\/p>\n

First up this week is Eric Schwerin, who is scheduled to appear on Tuesday after being subpoenaed last year by the House Oversight Committee for a deposition. The committee obtained bank records indicating Schwerin \u2018had access to bank accounts\u2019 that could be relevant to their probe.<\/p>\n

Schwerin\u2019s testimony comes after Fox News Digital first reported that Joe Biden, as vice president, used email aliases and private email addresses to communicate with Hunter Biden and his business associates hundreds of times \u2013 including with Schwerin. The communications came between 2010 to 2019, with the majority of email traffic taking place while Biden was serving as vice president.<\/p>\n

The House Ways & Means Committee, which is co-leading the impeachment inquiry alongside the Oversight and Judiciary Committees, said 54 of those emails were \u2018exclusively\u2019 between Joe Biden and Schwerin. The House Ways & Means Committee describes Schwerin as \u2018the architect of the Biden family\u2019s shell companies.\u2019<\/p>\n

Schwerin, during a March 2023 meeting with the House Oversight Committee staff, explained that \u2018he was not aware of any transactions into or out of the then-Vice President\u2019s bank account related to business conducted by any Biden family member,\u2019 a spokesperson for the Democrats on the committee told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House has also cited Schwerin\u2019s statement that Biden was not involved in his family\u2019s business dealings when pushing back against Republicans\u2019 impeachment inquiry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A person familiar with Schwerin\u2019s role in handling then-Vice President Biden\u2019s finances told Fox News Digital that Schwerin worked on Biden\u2019s personal budget and helped coordinate with his tax preparers.<\/p>\n

The individual also pointed to the frequency of Schwerin\u2019s communications with Biden and his top aides and said it was \u2018inevitable\u2019 Rosemont Seneca business came up in conversations.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the data shows direct emails between Schwerin and then-Vice President Biden increased during times when the vice president traveled to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

The committee said the data shows Joe Biden and Schwerin exchanged five emails in June 2014 before the vice president\u2019s trip to Ukraine that month.<\/p>\n

After that trip and before Biden\u2019s November 2014 trip back to Ukraine, he and Schwerin emailed 27 times.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings in April 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden has acknowledged that when he was vice president he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings. During the same period, Hunter Biden held a highly lucrative role on the board, receiving thousands of dollars per month.<\/p>\n

At the time, the vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.<\/p>\n

Biden allies maintain the vice president pushed for Shokin\u2019s firing due to concerns the\u00a0Ukrainian prosecutor\u00a0went easy on corruption and say his firing was the policy position of the U.S. and international community.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees are also expected to hear testimony from Joey Langston on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Langston is said to have hosted fundraisers for Joe Biden and to have donated thousands of dollars to his political campaigns.<\/p>\n

The committee says Langston, in 2008, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to attempt to influence a judge by providing the judge with \u2018favorable consideration\u2019 for a federal judgeship. Langston was sentenced to three years in federal prison and fined $250,000. The Mississippi state bar then disbarred him from practicing law, and in 2016, a federal judge denied his requests to have his \u2018conviction for conspiring to bribe a judge thrown out,\u2019 and to have his \u2018record cleared.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the House Oversight Committee says it obtained bank records revealing that after Langston lost his appeal, his company, Langston Law Firm Consulting Inc., began making payments, totaling more than $200,000 to James and Sara Biden directly, and to their entity Lion Hall Group.<\/p>\n

The committee says it is \u2018interested in the nature and purpose of these payments, which totaled $187,000 while Joe Biden was serving as vice president.\u2019<\/p>\n

House Republicans hope the witnesses can provide information on whether, among other things, Joe Biden, as vice president and\/or president \u2018took any official action or effected any change in government policy because of money or other things of value provided to himself or his family, including whether concerns that Chinese sources may release additional evidence about their business relationships with the Biden family have had any impact on official acts performed by President Biden or U.S. foreign policy; abused his office of public trust by providing foreign interests with access to him and his office in exchange for payments to his family or him; or abused his office of public trust by knowingly participating in a scheme to enrich himself or his family by giving foreign interests the impression that they would receive access to him and his office in exchange for payments to his family or him.\u2019<\/p>\n

The expected testimonies come days after Hunter Biden business associates Mervyn Yan and Rob Walker appeared for their transcribed interviews before the committees, and weeks before the first son is set to take part in a closed-door deposition.<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden defied his subpoena to appear for a deposition on Dec. 13, and was at risk of being held in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n

His attorneys and the committees came to an agreement last week that the first son will appear for a closed-door deposition on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n

House Democrats, though, have blasted the impeachment inquiry, and have said witness testimony has not supported Republicans\u2019 claims that Biden benefited from or was involved in his son\u2019s business dealings. House Democrats are calling for the inquiry to come to an end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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