A federal prosecutor said Thursday a former B-2 bomber engineer helped China design a stealth cruise missile to raise money to pay the $15,000-a-month mortgage on the mansion-like home he built on Maui’s north shore, MSNBC reports.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Sorenson told a jury in closing arguments to a four-month-long trial that Noshir Gowadia wove a “world-wide web of deception” to sell military secrets to China.

“The desperation began once he started building that house,” Sorenson said.

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