Jami-Lee Ross

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Jami-Lee Matenga Ross (born 1985) is a New Zealand businessman and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Botany from a by-election in March 2011 until he lost his re-election bid at the 2020 general election. Originally elected as a member of the New Zealand National Party, and having served as its chief whip during the final year of the Fifth National Government, Ross left the party in 2018 amid accusations of corruption, bullying, and sexual harassment. He sat in Parliament as an independent until 2020, when he formed the conspiracy theorist and electorally unsuccessful Advance New Zealand party. He was charged with electoral fraud in 2020 but found not guilty on the basis it was possible he had lied about his involvement in a donation-splitting scheme. Prior to his parliamentary career, Ross had been a local government politician in Auckland on the Manukau City Council where had been elected aged 18, from 2004 to 2010 and on the consolidated Auckland Council for five...

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