Police decline to press charges against MP Craig Thomson

[Gozu]

NSW police have dropped their investigation into allegations against Labor MP Craig Thomson.

Mr Thomson was suspected of illegally misusing a union credit card to pay for escort services.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph today reveals detectives have ended their assessment of claims against the MP.

They found no evidence of illegality.

Senior police were last night liaising with their counterparts in Victoria about the matter and were expected to officially refer the case for their assessment in the coming days.

"Bottom line is - a crime hasn't been committed," a senior police source confirmed yesterday. "We went through a lot of documents and assessed criminality, but it hasn't reached that threshold."

It's understood that Fraud Squad detectives found several reasons why a formal investigation could not proceed and, on that basis, decided yesterday to drop their review.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/mp-craig- ... 6131740678

Goodbye, straight talker.

[Leaping Lindner]

Fear not. George Brandis is still on the case!!!!

[scoob]

Regardless if charges are laid or not, fair to say that the damage has been done.

[best on hill]

que: straight talker

he will still be guilty in ST eyes as he is from a "union" and is a "labor" pollie

[The Sleeping Giant]

Looks like he has dodged a bullet, until the next election.

[scoob]

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Represeting their union members well...

[Sky Pilot]

Thomson is a disgrace. If he was a Lib and the roles were reversed Labor would be all over this like mud on a pig so who could blame Brandis/Abbott for having a go? Its time for you leftie socialists to wise up and accept you have a feral in your ranks.
Sky News reporting right now about the new allegations of Thomson and his Amex card rorts. This wont go away and nor should it. Labor is a mess and the country is suffering as a result.

[Mythical Creature]

Im not big on politics and dont really have a side but it appears to me charges weren't laid because the cards were in his name and therefore no crime was committed. 2 things that needs clarifyiig IMO is....

1. Its morally wrong to use other peoples money for Prosty's. Using members funds for personal benefits outside of normal use just doesn't sit right with me.
2. If the cards were in his name I'm struggling to work out how a crime was not comitted. His earlier statements said that somebody else used the cards and it wasn't him. To use someone elses credit card is fraud, unless he lied in his earlier statements.

Happy if I'm wrong, but thats how I see it.

[Darth Vader]

Gillard's support of this low-life shows how low she is prepared to stoop to hold on to her tenuous grip on Governing this country.
Thomson, if not a criminal, is at the very least a man of dubious character, someone prepared to spend money belonging to someone else on pursuing a hedonistic lifestyle of lavish dinners, trips and hookers.
Apart from the moral issues the man has no right to represent his country at the highest level.
Australia deserves better than Thomson and better than a party prepared to sacrifice its own standards and a great deal of money to remain in power at all costs.

[southee]

Thomson is a disgrace. If he was a Lib and the roles were reversed Labor would be all over this like mud on a pig so who could blame Brandis/Abbott for having a go? Its time for you leftie socialists to wise up and accept you have a feral in your ranks.
Sky News reporting right now about the new allegations of Thomson and his Amex card rorts. This wont go away and nor should it. Labor is a mess and the country is suffering as a result.

Agreed......once again Labor (The Houdini Party) get off the hook.

What a rabble and joke Labor is at the moment.

[Sojourner]

1. Its morally wrong to use other peoples money for Prosty's. Using members funds for personal benefits outside of normal use just doesn't sit right with me.
2. If the cards were in his name I'm struggling to work out how a crime was not comitted. His earlier statements said that somebody else used the cards and it wasn't him. To use someone elses credit card is fraud, unless he lied in his earlier statements.

Happy if I'm wrong, but thats how I see it.

In NSW and Vic its totally legal to hire on a prostitute if he so wishes, yet as you state his claim is that it was "someone else", so clearly the owner of the card, in this case the Union are out the money that has been spent along with the rest of the coin that cant be accounted for. IMO Craig Thomson is responsible for every last cent of it as the card was issued to him and if he is aware that someone else has been using the card fraudulently, he himself should be the first one in to the police to report the theft and to challenge the transactions with the Credit Card company and have them reveresed. He should repay every last cent of it to the Union, yet if its true that he is close to bankruptcy then clearly he has no capacity to pay anything back.

I read during this trial that the Union had to bring the matter to the police because its a crime to have knowledge that a crime may have been committed and to then not report it. By his own admission Thomson has done the same thing. He says he has the details of who stole the funds but has not turned that information over to the police and should be charged on that alone let alone the rest of the allegations made.

His wife is heavily pregnant and about to give birth, how she manages to cope with all this going on in the background is anyones guess. If even a tenth of what is alleged to have happened is actually factual, that is a very dirty and low way of treating your partner to put her through all this day after day. Sometimes its better just to face up to what you have in fact done and take it like a man instead of playing the coward when challenged and trying to blame it all on some third person who took his card number and so on.

As both the State Liberals and the Federal Labor parties will find out, pollies in the media that get away with things don't generally get away with it when the next election rolls around and its not just them, its the whole group that goes down over it, just go and ask the former WA State Government how that tune goes...

[straight talker]

NSW police have dropped their investigation into allegations against Labor MP Craig Thomson.

Mr Thomson was suspected of illegally misusing a union credit card to pay for escort services.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph today reveals detectives have ended their assessment of claims against the MP.

They found no evidence of illegality.

Senior police were last night liaising with their counterparts in Victoria about the matter and were expected to officially refer the case for their assessment in the coming days.

"Bottom line is - a crime hasn't been committed," a senior police source confirmed yesterday. "We went through a lot of documents and assessed criminality, but it hasn't reached that threshold."

It's understood that Fraud Squad detectives found several reasons why a formal investigation could not proceed and, on that basis, decided yesterday to drop their review.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/mp-craig- ... 6131740678

Goodbye, straight talker.

gozo i thought you were smarter than that. Do you honestly think it is all over? If you do you are about as clever as our current incompetent government. There is even more evidence comming out about other things that him and one of his mates has been up too.! You keep believing that he is a good clean living man buddy if that makes you happy! you keep talking yourself into it there gozo.

[straight talker]

Thomson is a disgrace. If he was a Lib and the roles were reversed Labor would be all over this like mud on a pig so who could blame Brandis/Abbott for having a go? Its time for you leftie socialists to wise up and accept you have a feral in your ranks.
Sky News reporting right now about the new allegations of Thomson and his Amex card rorts. This wont go away and nor should it. Labor is a mess and the country is suffering as a result.

Agreed......once again Labor (The Houdini Party) get off the hook.

What a rabble and joke Labor is at the moment.

it is certainly not over yet thats for sure, the case has been moved to victoria where the unions main offices are and if all parties involved can manage to produce all the paperwork that has allegedly gone missing i wouldnt like to be in his shoes, i mean i guess his reputation has been tattered forever anyway. The person who allegedly stole his card,wallet,mobile phone must of been his twin brother as the people who work in the brothel checked his id with photo and also his signature and his phone records so gee whiz the bloke must have a look alike,...

[Psyber]

it is certainly not over yet thats for sure, the case has been moved to victoria where the unions main offices are and if all parties involved can manage to produce all the paperwork that has allegedly gone missing i wouldnt like to be in his shoes, i mean i guess his reputation has been tattered forever anyway. The person who allegedly stole his card,wallet,mobile phone must of been his twin brother as the people who work in the brothel checked his id with photo and also his signature and his phone records so gee whiz the bloke must have a look alike,...

The faithful ALP supporter lobby here will tell you about the secret Liberal Party organisation designed to train lookalikes to create such scandals about the truly pure who hold up "the light on the hill".