US President Donald Trump personally lobbied Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Las Vegas Sands’ bid for a Japanese casino license, according to a new report.

On Wednesday, ProPublica published a lengthy profile on the political activities of Sheldon Adelson, founder and boss of the Sands casino empire. Adelson has long been noted as a Republican party sugar daddy, but the quid pro quo of his outsized financial donations has apparently take on a more tangible form since Trump’s 2016 election victory.

In February 2017, Abe was in Washington for his first official post-election visit with Trump. Adelson was also in town, and held his own meeting with Abe to promote Sands’ interest in obtaining a Japanese casino license. Later that weekend during a dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf course in Florida, Trump reportedly told Abe that he should ‘strongly consider’ Sands’ casino bid.

According to two ProPublica sources who were briefed on the meeting, Abe’s diplomatic aides were “a little incredulous” that Trump had raised a major donor’s personal business interests “out of the blue” and in such a “brazen” manner. Abe reportedly “didn’t really respond and said thank you for the information.”