had supplied false identification that did not match his fingerprints. The documentary also questioned Te Kahika's claim that he had served full-time in the Police in 2003. According to "False Profit," Te Kahika was also involved in a financial dispute with the organizers of the 2013 Queenstown Jazz Festival. The festival proved to be unprofitable with Te Kahika left with significant debts. Te Kahika alleged that the organisers had attempted to take advantage of his brand. According to the musicians Petra Rjinbeek and Maggie Cocco, Te Kahika bullied fellow musicians and neglected to pay them for their gigs and expenses. Both Coco and Rjinbeek also alleged that Te Kahika, who identifies as a Christian, was sexually promiscuous and harassed women. In July 2016, Te Kahika announced plans to host a festival in the Northland Region, establishing a company called the World Indigenous Festival New Zealand with himself as its CEO. The venture received the support of Helen Clark, the former New Zealand Prime Minister and the head of the United Nations Development Programme. Several taxpayer-funded bodies invested in the festival, including Te Puni Kōkiri and Sport New Zealand each invested $20,000. The festival, scheduled to take place in 2019, did not go ahead. Sport NZ and Auckland Council's economic growth agency ATEED later stated that they did not give Te Kahika permission to use their corporate logos in material pitching their support. In the summer of 2018/19, Te Kahika and Irish vocalist Ronan Kavanagh toured Northland as part of the AA Solar Summer Music Series. In November 2018, Te Kahika and his father played at the Old Parakao Store Cafe/Bar in Pakotai. In October 2019, Te Kahika Jr. held a "Road to Chicago" tour across New Zealand as a warm-up to his tour of the United States in early 2020. Between January and mid-February 2020, he toured the United States, performing with blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy in Chicago on 13 January. Political career Founding of the New Zealand Public Party During the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand, Te Kahika founded the New Zealand Public Party, which was launched on 11 June 2020. The Public Party campaigned against the Government's COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 and opposed the United Nations, 5G technology, 1080 poison, fluoridation, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and electromagnetics. Te Kahika spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging that the pandemic would enable globalist leaders to implement UN