[1] In February 2009 he was appointed to the coalition cabinet of Oscar Temaru as Minister of Outer Islands Development.
[6] In September 2011 the Court of Appeal overturned an initial sentence of a year's ineligibility for office.
[7] Following the 2013 election he was appointed to the Cabinet of Gaston Flosse as Minister of Agriculture and Island Development.
[11] In April 2017 he was one of 22 Tahoeraa politicians jointly ordered to repay US$2.1 million of public funds they had misused to advance their political party between 1996 and 2004.
[12] In February 2018 he left the Tahoeraa after failing to secure a high enough placing on the party list.