Marc Lampkin, a leading fundraiser for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, has benefited from millions of dollars flowing from the Chinese Communist Party’s tech giant Tencent Holdings since 2020.
Between 2020 and 2023, Brownstein Hyatt – where Lampkin is a government relations managing partner and shareholder – received a total of $2,130,000 million from the Chinese firm despite then-President Donald Trump’s 2020 executive order which attempted to ban U.S. transactions with Tencent.
In 2020, Brownstein accepted $330,000 to lobby for Tencent’s American subsidiary, which grew to £800,000 in both 2021 and 2022. This year, the total amount so far has been $200,000.
By Jake Welch
