Lafaitele Patrick Leiataualesa (also known as Pat Leota) (born ~1968)[1] is a Samoan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa.
[2] In 1988 he was involved in a fight in the Ōtara shopping centre in which a man was hunted down and killed with a machete.
[1] Lafaitele claimed the killing was in self-defence and that he had been unable to appeal against the conviction due to lack of money.
In November 2013 he was suspended from the party and his associate ministerial role after swearing at an official during an ava drinking ceremony.
[10][11] He attempted to run in the 2021 election but was declared ineligible as a candidate after the court ruled he had failed to render monotaga (service) to the constituency.