are scheduled to be sentenced in March 2023. 2020 election misconduct charges In September 2021 Te Kahika was charged with filing false electoral donation returns and obtaining $15,000 by deception. Name suppression lapsed and he was identified in October 2021. Community involvement and public image Between 2009 and 2010, Te Kahika was involved with Holden's "Driving Towards a Future" programme, which sought to educate young drivers about road safety issues like drink driving, speeding and personal responsibility. Between August and October 2011, Te Kahika led a music tour to help The Salvation Army raise funds for families affected by the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. In October 2019, Te Kahika organised a special benefit concert to raise support for Auckland's homeless community called the "Blues For the Homeless," which played in Milford. Until late August 2020, Te Kahika served as an ambassador for the anti-domestic violence charity White Ribbons. Following his controversial remarks about COVID-19 and other issues, White Ribbons severed relations with Te Kahika on the grounds that his remarks undermined the trust's evidence-based approach. This suspension accompanied an Advance NZ/NZ Public Party video falsely alleging that the New Zealand Government had passed legislation forcing people to take a COVID-19 vaccine. Te Kahika defended his remarks and stance, claiming that the Government was corrupt and that COVID-19 was "nothing worse than a flu." Te Kahika also alleged that he was the target of an international assassin. As leader of the NZ Public Party, Te Kahika advocated on behalf of a woman known as "L.K.," who was imprisoned in late August after she and her children breached managed isolation in Hamilton to attend her husband's funeral. Te Kahika described her as a "brave and courageous woman" who had "touched" his heart through her experience. He also claimed that he had lobbied the Government into releasing her after seven days. An investigation by Stuff Circuit, reported in October 2020, found that Te Kahika had misrepresented the New Zealand Government as backing a feasibility study to install solar power in 20 hotels in Samoa. In addition, Te Kahika unsuccessfully attempted to solicit NZ$30,000 from a businessman to establish an investment bank in Samoa. In January 2021 news website "thisquality" reported that Billy Te Kahika used a $200,000 loan given to him for a housing project for the homeless to instead purchase a Land Rover Discovery and fund his political movement, and that Te Kahika