For the past several years, President Joe Biden's White House and fiercest defenders have steadfastly denied mounting allegations that first son Hunter Biden exploited his father's political influence and power, as a former senator and vice president, in aid of foreign business associates and companies.

Yet now, in a suspiciously timed release, the Biden-Harris administration has seemingly confirmed that Hunter did ask the U.S. government to act favorably on behalf of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, for which he controversially served as a board member while his father was the VP, according to RadarOnline.

The string of heavily redacted emails that were responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request filed several years ago, were coincidentally and conveniently released just days after President Biden ended his troubled re-election campaign.

Emails reveal Hunter sought U.S. government assistance for Burisma

The New York Times reported that it filed a FOIA request with the State Department in 2021 for any documents related to Hunter Biden's alleged requests for U.S. government assistance on behalf of his foreign business partners -- a request that was initially stonewalled until a lawsuit forced the ongoing release of thousands of responsive documents, albeit in small tranches spread out over several months, and most of which are so heavily redacted as to be unreadable and worthless.

There is one series of emails from July 2016, however, which reveal that Hunter reached out in a letter to then-U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Phillips for help in arranging a meeting between the then-president of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, and Burisma officials to discuss a proposed geothermal energy production project.

A Commerce Department official at the U.S. Embassy in Rome was assigned to respond to Hunter's request, but wrote to another unidentified U.S. official, "I want to be careful about promising too much. This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the [Department of Commerce] Advocacy Center."

The Times noted that the released emails coincide with other emails at the time that were found on Hunter's abandoned laptop, including one from former business partner Eric Schwerin to an Italian business associate that explained, "Burisma is hoping that some of its executives can get a meeting with the president to discuss their geothermal business in Tuscany."

The outlet also referenced a separate email from the Commerce Department official who wrote to other U.S. officials of the request for help and said, "The Ambassador already replied to one letter from Mr. Biden," and added, "He may be shopping for more support than he got here."

Lawyer confirms outreach, White House and State Department offer excuses

The Times further reported that Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, confirmed that his client had "asked various people" in the U.S. government for help and made a "proper request" for action, but noted that "No meeting occurred, no project materialized, no request for anything in the U.S. was ever sought, and only an introduction in Italy was requested."

Meanwhile, the White House insisted that President Biden was completely unaware of his son's outreach to the ambassador, and the elderly ambassador himself told the outlet that while he had no recollection of the request from Hunter, he likely would have authorized a response but "wouldn’t get us involved in something like that" because he always tried to avoid creating the perception that connected individuals, like the then-VP's son, received special treatment.

As for the State Department, it insisted that the timing of the released emails after the president ended his re-election bid was purely coincidental and that the release had previously been authorized before Biden publicly announced that he'd dropped out of the race.

Hunter exposed for requesting favors for Romanian business partner

Interestingly enough, the released emails emerged just days after Special Counsel David Weiss submitted a filing in Hunter Biden's tax evasion case that outlined evidence prosecutors would introduce of Hunter's "lobbying and consulting business" with a Romanian business partner that involved asking the U.S. government to intervene in favor of another Romanian business partner under investigation for bribery -- an act for which Hunter appeared to be paid around $1 million.

"The government does not intend to reference allegations that the defendant violated [the Foreign Agents Registration Act] or improperly coordinated with the Obama Administration," the filing stated, but rather would prove that Hunter's associate "structured a business relationship in an effort to avoid having to register as a foreign agent, and that the defendant and his business partners did reach out to government officials, specifically the United States Department of State."

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who has led a years-long probe of alleged Biden family corruption, told Newsmax of the filing, "This was a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act because Hunter Biden was getting paid by these foreign nationals in Romania to influence the Obama-Biden administration," and added, "This is, I think, the biggest political corruption scandal in our history’s lifetime."