In 2019, Collins Super PAC head Scott Reed met at a D.C. coffee shop with three executives from Hawaiian defense contractor Navatek and asked them for a $500,000 contribution. The executives counter-offered—proposing an even bigger donation in return for tens of millions of dollars in federal defense contracts. They suggested obscuring the donation through a fake shell company called “the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers”—as it is extremely illegal for government contractors to make political donations and for Collins to exchange federal contracts for said donations.
The Collins PAC received $150,000 from Navatek CEO Martin Kao right after the meeting, and two months later he told the company that Collins committed to giving them $32 million in naval contracts. Kao was eventually federally charged for campaign finance crimes and loan defrauding in 2022, and faces years in prison. No one from Collins’s office was charged.
Edit: Post updated with better source.
Is she going to be eligible for Blanche’s “weaponization” reparations fund? The one that they were supposed to kill, but no one believes them?
The fund is very pointedly not not dead as Blanche could not be brought to say so in writing at the time of his confirmation, but I guarantee you that no matter what happens, no one outside the Trump org is ever going to see a penny of that.
If he’d actually given a shit about the J6 rubes he’d have already helped them in other ways, like funding their legal defenses privately immediately afterward. He has money and there’s no law against a private citizen helping pay someone else’s legal bills, but as far as I know he’s never thrown so much as a nickel in a jar for them or anyone else.
That fund is just another way to extract cash from the country. For himself. While getting the rubes to support it because they think there’s actually something it it for them, finally. “Fell For It Again Award” material, basically.