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- President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration halted the Navatek investigation.
- Kao, arrested in September 2020 for campaign-finance violations, alleged Navatek bribed public officials.
- Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins’s PAC received $150,000 from Kao after a 2019 D.C. restaurant meeting.
- Two months later Kao reported Collins pledged $32 million in naval contracts to Navatek.
- Kao remains jailed while the investigation team cannot file a new case.