[2][1] In 2002 he was convicted of misuse of public funds and disqualified from office.
He eventually resigned in September 2003,[3] but the failure of authorities to remove him from office resulted in French High Commissioner Michel Mathieu being prosecuted for abuse of office.
[5] In the 2014 municipal elections he was comfortably re-elected as a councillor in the first round, but lost his seat (and the mayoralty) in the second.
[10] In June 2015 he resigned from the Tahoera'a group in the Assembly to join Édouard Fritch's Tāpura Huiraʻatira.
[13] He led the Tāpura list in Hitiaa O Te Ra at the 2020 municipal elections.