{"id":1419797,"date":"2022-04-05T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419797"},"modified":"2022-04-05T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T15:45:21","slug":"keep-this-low-low-key-bidens-current-chief-of-staff-reportedly-asked-hunter-biden-for-money-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/keep-this-low-low-key-bidens-current-chief-of-staff-reportedly-asked-hunter-biden-for-money-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Keep This Low Low Key\u2019: Biden\u2019s Current Chief Of Staff Reportedly Asked Hunter Biden For Money In 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkeep-this-low-low-key-bidens-current-chief-of-staff-reportedly-asked-hunter-biden-for-money-in-2012%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1419797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ron Klain, currently White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden, reportedly tried to \u201clow key\u201d solicit money from Hunter Biden in 2012 amid an effort to raise money for the Vice President\u2019s Residence Foundation (VPRF), according to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Klain was chairman of the VPRF, having left then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s side as chief of staff in 2011, Fox News Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ron-klain-solicited-money-hunter-biden-emails-vp-residence\">reported<\/a>. Klain, according to emails published by Fox News Digital, told <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/11\/hunter-biden-investigation-china-cefc\/\">Hunter Biden<\/a> that he was \u201chitting up a few very close friends on a very confidential basis to write checks of $2,000 each,\u201d noting that the VPRF had \u201cto raise a total of $20,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to keep this low low key, because raising money for the Residence now is bad PR \u2013 but it has to be done, so I\u2019m trying to just collect the 10 checks of $2,000, get it done in a week, and then, we can do an event for the Residence Foundation after the election,\u201d Klain wrote to Hunter Biden, according to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs this ok?\u201d Klain continued. \u201cIf so, send your check (payable to the Vice President\u2019s Residence Foundation) to: [address redacted].\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7404167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7404167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 NOVEMBER 13: U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden (R), joined by Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain (L), speaks during a meeting regarding Ebola at the Eisenhower Executive office building November 13, 2014 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hunter Biden reportedly forwarded Klain\u2019s email to Eric Schwerin, his business partner, according to Fox News Digital. Schwerin, according to the emails, said the two could discuss the request as well as \u201csome other bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assume you think you should do this?\u201d Schwerin wrote according to the emails published by Fox News Digital. \u201cI wonder if they would take a corporate check from Owasco?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schwerin reportedly emailed Hunter Biden again a few days later noting he and Klain had spoken, and that they were waiting to see if the VPRF could accept a check from what appeared to be Owasco PC, Hunter Biden\u2019s law firm.<\/p>\n<p>The emails obtained by Fox News Digital do not note whether Hunter Biden ultimately used his law firm to donate the money requested by Klain. It\u2019s also unclear whether Hunter Biden asked other people for money in an effort to help Klain raise the $20,000 needed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7404172\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7404172\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7404172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"US President-elect Joe Biden (R) embraces his son Hunter Biden (L) on stage after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1229520335-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7404172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President-elect Joe Biden (R) embraces his son Hunter Biden (L) on stage after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The VPRF is a non-profit that \u201cassists in preserving and furnishing the official residence of the Vice President of the United States,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charitynavigator.org\/ein\/521725927\">according<\/a> to Charity Navigator. In 2012, its tax form <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.propublica.org\/nonprofits\/display_990\/521725927\/2013_08_EO%2F52-1725927_990EZ_201209\">noted<\/a> that \u201cfunds raised in both of these years have been exclusively through public sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>News of Klain\u2019s past request coincides with an ongoing federal <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/15\/hunter-biden-investigation-summary-china-burisma-tax\/\">investigation<\/a> into Hunter Biden\u2019s business dealings. The investigation involves possible tax violations, allegations of money laundering as well as foreign lobbying. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/joe-hunter-biden-burisma-amos-hochstein-naftogaz-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: The Biden Admin\u2019s Ties To Ukraine Go Deeper Than Hunter And Burisma)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Hunter Biden was prompted after a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/washington-post-daily-caller-news-foundation-hunter-biden-laptop\/\">laptop<\/a> was discovered that had been abandoned by the president\u2019s son in Delaware. The laptop contained emails linking Hunter Biden to a Chinese energy company.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/31\/white-house-hunter-biden-foreign-business-dealings\/\">remained<\/a> staunch in its defense of Hunter Biden, with White House communications director Kate Bedingfield noting last week that the president \u201cstands by\u201d his 2020 declaration that his son did \u201cnothing unethical\u201d in his business dealings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Klain, currently White House chief of staff under President Joe Biden, reportedly tried to \u201clow key\u201d solicit money from Hunter Biden in 2012 amid an effort to raise money<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}