[2] His loss of U.S. citizenship was confirmed by a notice in the Federal Register as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in March 2000.
[2][5] In May 2002, Sikol was indicted by a Memphis grand jury on charges of racketeering, conspiracy, money laundering, and mail fraud for his role in IDM, a company which sold non-U.S. lottery tickets to elderly U.S. citizens, and was arrested in December that year.
[5][6] In a 2008 ruling in the Sixth Circuit, Judges Richard Fred Suhrheinrich, John M. Rogers, and Robert Holmes Bell upheld Sikol's conviction, but reversed the asset forfeiture order against him and remanded the issue to the district court for further proceedings.
[1] In an interview on Television Blong Vanuatu, Sikol stated that the party hoped to promote rural development and decrease dependence on the national government.
[13] In April 2013, Chief Justice Vincent Lunabek of the Supreme Court of Vanuatu affirmed the validity of Sikol's election, ruling that regardless of whether Sikol's adoption qualified him as "a native or a person originating from that rural constituency ... who has been adopted by law or custom into a family originating from that rural constituency" as required by Section 23A, that section itself violated the guarantee in Article 5(1) of the Constitution of Vanuatu against discrimination, and did not fall within the exceptions to that article for "legitimate public interest".