FOX FIRST: President Biden’s White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein contacted Hunter Biden in September 2012 to help raise $ 20,000 for the Vice Presidents Residence Foundation (VPRF), urging him to To prevent “evil”. PR “, according to the emails controlled by Fox News Digital. Klein, who resigned as chief of staff at then-Vice President Biden a year earlier but was president of the foundation at the time of the email, told Hunter he “had to deal with a nasty job” and needed help. of Hunter. The Vice President’s Residence Foundation is a non-profit entity used to help maintain and furnish the Vice President’s official residence at the US Naval Observatory. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein contacted Hunter Biden in September 2012 for $ 20,000 in Vice Presidential Housing Foundation (VPRF) funding assistance, telling him to “keep this low-key” to bad public relations “, according to emails. Review by Fox News Digital. (Win McNamee / Getty Images) “Tax lawyers for the VP Residence Foundation have concluded that since Cheney’s people last raised money in 2007 and not in 2008, we should actually have some cash flow before the end of this fiscal year (ie “before 9/30/12 – next week) to remain eligible for a ‘public charity,’” Klein said in an email to Hunter. “Not much – we have to raise a total of $ 20,000 – so I invite some very close friends on a very confidential basis to write $ 2,000 checks each,” Klein continued. “We have to keep this low, because raising money for Residence now is bad PR – but it has to be done, so I try to raise the $ 2,000 checks, finish it in a week and then, we can do a event for the Residence Foundation after the elections “. Hunter then forwarded the email a few hours later to his longtime partner, Eric Schwerin, who helped manage the majority of Hunter’s finances. Schwerin responded by saying that they could “discuss this and some other bills on Monday” and asked if Hunter thought “they would get a corporate check from Owasco”, which seemed to refer to Hunter’s law firm, Owasco PC . Three days after Klain’s initial email, who was president of the VPRF in 2012, Schwerin emailed Hunter to inform him that he had spoken to Klain and that he was checking to see if the foundation would accept a check from Owasco. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. However, a 990 tax form from fiscal year 2012 shows that the foundation received $ 20,500 in contributions that year. At the time of Klain’s correspondence with Hunter, he was chairman of Case Holdings, which, according to a Press release, is the portfolio company for “the broad-based profiteering and charitable interests of AOL co-founder Steve Case and Jean’s wife” and includes investments in Hawaii, the Case Foundation and Revolution LLC, the venture capital company where Klain also operated. He was also a board member of the Center For American Progress Action Fund. According to VPRF tax forms, its activities include “fixed costs”, including premiums and professional services, and “cyclical costs”, including decorating, renovating and transporting items to and from storage. “The VPRF is organized and operates in a way that is designed to attract public support and maintain a consistent and credible fundraising program for the general public,” the 2012 tax return states. “The VPRF resumed fundraising at the end of fiscal year 2012 and continues to raise funds for fiscal year 2013,” the tax return states. “The funds raised during these two years were made exclusively from public sources.” Hunter Biden forwarded Klein’s email to longtime collaborator Eric Schwerin, who helped manage the majority of Hunter’s finances. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images) The foundation’s fiscal year 2012 ran from October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012 – the same month that Klein emailed Hunter Biden asking for donation help and when the foundation “continued to raise funds.” Hunter Biden is currently under federal investigation for possible breaches of tax law, money laundering and foreign lobbying through his previous business dealings abroad, but Klein defended himself on Sunday, telling ABC News that “I’m sure his son did not. breaking the law.” The 2012 emails follow previous reports showing Hunter Biden behind the scenes following Joe Biden’s entry into the vice president’s office. Fox News had been mentioned before “A registered Serbian foreign agent and a Serbian ambassador to the United States were talking to Hunter Biden during the first years of his father’s first term as vice president to coordinate the planning of an investment meeting with the Serbian president and the great Serbs.” CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Previous emails also have revealed that between 2010 and 2011, Hunter Biden had said that his relationship with a Chinese tycoon, whom Hunter and his associates referred to as “Super President” and who was arrested for money laundering in China, had “something to do with my last name. “ In addition, emails showed Hunter Biden trying to help a Chinese oil executive buy an African oil field after he was warned that the company had ties to countries hit by US sanctions. Free Beacon mentionted. The White House, Schwerin and Hunter’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital. Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
