EXCLUSIVE: Come clean, Joe! Former White House ethics chief says White House lawyers conferring with Hunter Biden about his father's finances was 'inappropriate' - unless they were doing business together, which Joe has repeatedly denied

A former White House ethics chief has slammed Joe Biden’s White House lawyers’ ‘inappropriate’ discussion of his finances with his son Hunter.

On Friday DailyMail.com revealed that in 2010 when Joe was Vice President, his official White House lawyer wrote to Hunter Biden and his business partner Eric Schwerin to discuss an IRS audit letter about the VP’s 2008 tax return.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Richard Painter, who was chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush administration from 2005 to 2007, said it was inappropriate for White House lawyers to contact family members of the vice president over his taxes.

Painter said the then-Counsel to the Vice President Cynthia Hogan would have reason to write to Hunter about Joe’s taxes ‘only if the son is doing business with the vice president.’

‘I don’t think the White House Counsel should be contacting family members of the vice president. That’s unusual,’ Painter said.

‘I don’t know why Hunter would be involved… And I think it’s unfortunate that Hunter Biden’s business partner would be handling the vice president’s taxes.’