Updated May 18
FBI probing federal contractor’s donations to Sen. Collins’ campaign
The FBI alleges contributions totaling close to $195,000 were made illegally to Susan Collins 2020 re-election campaign and a super PAC that supported her.
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Martin Kao, second from left, and Sen. Susan Collins appeared together in Portland in 2019, when Collins announced an $8 million federal contract to Hawaii-based Navatek. Joining them were Navatek Vice President Dave Kring, far left; JB Turner, president of Front Street Shipyards in Belfast; and Maggie Craig, Navatek’s deputy director of operations for Portland. Navatek said it would work with Front Street Shipyards on “new science and technology for safer hulls and hybrid-electric propulsion systems for fast boats.”
The FBI Is Probing A Hawaii Defense Contractor s Donations To US Sen. Susan Collins - Honolulu Civil Beat
Martin Kao already faces criminal charges for defrauding a coronavirus relief aid program of millions of dollars. Reading time: 4 minutes.
WASHINGTON The FBI has launched a new criminal investigation into Hawaii defense contractor Martin Kao over campaign donations he made in support of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins after she helped steer an $8 million contract to his company, Navatek LLC, in 2019.
According to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit, the case stems from a $150,000 donation a mysterious Hawaii company, the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers, made to 1820 PAC, a pro-Collins political action committee.