First son Hunter Biden reportedly asked the State Department for help securing a foreign energy deal in Italy on behalf of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma while his father was vice president.

Records obtained by the New York Times found that Biden had written at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy asking for help securing an energy deal for Busima in Tuscany. The response from the Commerce Department official in the U.S. Embassy in Rome appeared to express discomfort over the request for help given it came on behalf of the son of the then-vice president.