Martin Kao, 51, the former CEO and 99% owner of Martin Defense Group LLC, formerly known as Navatek LLC, is already serving 87 months for COVID-19 relief fraud and the sentence he received Monday will run concurrently.
Gold noted Kao⁘s ⁘⁘relatively prompt acceptance of responsibility and the significant sentence⁘ he received in the COVID-19 fraud case and asked the judge to sentence Kao to 41 months.
Kao asked for time served, and his attorney noted he is a changed man who supported his family by working at The Cheesecake Factory before he was imprisoned.
Kao and his co-conspirators Clifford Chen, 48, and Lawrence ⁘Kahele⁘ Lum Kee, 52, created a shell company, the Society of Young Women Scientists and Engineers LLC, which they used to make an illegal contribution using government contractor funds to a PAC supporting the election of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
He also enlisted family members as ⁘conduits to make illegal contributions⁘ to Collins⁘ campaign committee and then paying them back for those donations using money from Kao⁘s company, according to federal prosecutors.
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