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Fepuleai Seminary Iakopo is a former
Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...
n politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa from 1982 to 1988. Fepuleai was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election in 1982. He gave his first speech on 28 February and 1 March 1983. He lost his seat at the 1988 election. He later moved to
New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
, where he ran three companies providing labour to fruit and vegetable growers. In 1991 he was made a
Justice of the peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the sa ...
. He was bankrupted between 1997 and 2000. In 2009 he was convicted of 46 counts of GST and income tax evasion involving more than $800,000 of unpaid tax, and sentenced to two year's home detention. In August 2022 he supported New Zealand Green Party MP
Teanau Tuiono Teanau Tuiono (born 25 December 1972) is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 he became a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand. Early life and career Tuiono was born on ...
's member's bill to repeal the ''Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982'', which had stripped Samoans of New Zealand citizenship.


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Living people Samoan expatriates in New Zealand Members of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa New Zealand justices of the peace New Zealand criminals Year of birth missing (living people) {{Samoa-politician-stub