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WASHINGTON The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center filed a Federal Election Commission
complaint against Big Tent Project Fund, an anti-Bernie Sanders group that sought to stifle his chances in the 2020 presidential election but according to the complaint failed to register as a PAC or publicly disclose its donors as required by law.
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FEC sued for not cracking down on dark money group that opposed Sandersâ presidential run
Erin Chlopak of the Campaign Legal Center said that this âis yet another example of the agencyâs dysfunction and its disregard for the campaign finance laws it was designed to oversee.â
The Campaign Legal Center on Wednesday filed suit against the Federal Election Commission, charging that the regulatory agency has failed to enforce the law against a group that spent millions of dollars on advertisements targeting key voters and opposing 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Though Sanders ultimately suspended his second presidential campaign and endorsed President Joe Biden, the Vermont Independent’s impressive finish in the Iowa caucuses and victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary were immediately followed by the formation of the Big Tent Project in mid-February 2020.
Who is Martin Kao?
According to his LinkedIn profile, Kao was designated as the President, CEO, and CFO of Navatek LLC started in 2012. The firm changed its name to Martin Defense Group shortly prior to his arrest. He stepped down from his position later.
In September 2020, Kao was charged in a separate case of defrauding banks of $12.8 million in COVID-relief funds aimed at small businesses. It was alleged that Kao had transferred over $2 million from the funds into his personal accounts, while his company executive admitted that the firm was unaffected by the pandemic. In a court hearing on May 12, 2020, Kao denied the charges and pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering and bank fraud. His trial on the charges is scheduled for July 2021. Now, Kao is facing additional charges of unlawfully funneling thousands of dollars to Collins campaign.
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.