Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson accused Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) of corruption after a ProPublica report examined alleged ties between her office, her campaign fundraising network and Navatek, a Hawaii-based defense firm. Jackson said Collins directed millions of taxpayer dollars to the company and that Donald Trump helped conceal the arrangement, also claiming Collins voted with Trump 96% of the time. Collins’s Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Clark called the report categorically false, saying the campaign cooperated fully with the FBI during the Biden administration, provided documents and fact witnesses, was never the target of the investigation, and has not been contacted about Martin Kao since 2021. ProPublica reported that Navatek executives and former CEO Martin Kao ran a pay-to-play operation (exchanging political access for business), including an alleged $150,000 payment to Collins’s super PAC (political committee that can raise unlimited funds) through a shell company. Two months later, Kao reportedly told Navatek executives Collins would provide $32 million in naval contracts. Kao is currently serving a federal prison sentence for COVID-relief wire fraud, money laundering and bank fraud. The report said investigators were prepared to examine the alleged scheme after Kao’s arrest, but the team handling his case left or was fired from the agencies after prior investigations into Trump. Collins’s office and the FBI did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.