I guess a bloke is guilty until proved innocent but the evidence is pretty damming.

When will these political "scandals" stop being scandals and just go to being the norm....

Theyre a slippery bunch of suckers...

^^^^

Simple Explanation:

Craig Thompson paid for his escorts with his Union Credit Card...


Unless we count alien abduction, alien theft of credit card, alien procurement of escorts.... but they said that craig was a regular.... ooh... aliens wearing craig thompson costume....

Do we discount aliens?

myusernam said...
Who hasn't paid for something dodgy on their work credit card!

Are you kidding me..... I would guesstimate that 80+ % of the people out there DO NOT have an employer credit card and you want to abuse the privilege, and how arrogant would you be to produce dodgy receipts for credit card use anyway?

myusernam said...

he probably didn't even do anything wrong...it was probably part of the culture. obviously others/ superiors did it too/ had done it before. He was the patsy that got caught. Legitimate entertainment expenses I say. Who hasn't paid for something dodgy on their work credit card!

Your statement says he didn't do anything wrong .and then you say, But he was the only guy to get caught. If you can get caught doing something then its wrong in my book

IMHO he looks like a Douche and acts like a Douche and has now been caught being a Douche the sooner he admits it the sooner the slower % of our fellow voting democratic can see the light

And im not talking Red Light Mr Thompson so stay away..

Heard something interesting on the presumption of innocence on Meet the Press yesterday from George Bandis, shadow attorney general...

George Bandis said...

...I was merely pointing out the presumption of innocence is a principle of criminal evidence and criminal procedure. It does not apply in civil suits. There are no criminal proceedings at the moment against either Mr Slipper or Mr Thomson.

Lawyers!

myusernam said...

he probably didn't even do anything wrong...it was probably part of the culture. obviously others/ superiors did it too/ had done it before. He was the patsy that got caught. Legitimate entertainment expenses I say. Who hasn't paid for something dodgy on their work credit card!

Me!!

who really gives a flying toss , honestly

dusta said...

who really gives a flying toss , honestly

I do. Do you want the country run by crooks?
Politicians should be held to higher standards than the rest of the population just as say Police or judges etc are. Adn rightly so.
With power comes responsibility, and that is the cornerstone of our society which sets us apart form theose sh!t places full of corruption.

Even if there is no offence, if he has probably (on the balance of probabilities) done something dishonest then we as employers can't have faith in his ability to perform the duties of his office in a fair, accountable and honest manner = sacked.

On my work credit card I have to reconcile transactions online and state what they are for - if a fraudulent transaction was made I could not miss it. So he is either incompetent at managing his own finances, or stealing. No other choices.

dusta said...

the country already is run by crooks but what difference do you think it's going to make anyway . not like the general public have any say in how the country is run . Gillard/mad monk , either way this country is ****ed . I just don't bother to take any notice of what's going on with our government as i cbf getting all worked up over something i have no say in . and yes i vote .



I normally just close my eyes and stab the pen on the piece of paper at election time

Isn't the deterrent to other pollies if Thompson is removed important?

Kinda like saying murder doesn't affect you so just fk it, it is already happening. The whole idea of our society is we deal with the problems ones to make the potential ones think twice.

dusta said...

the country already is run by crooks but what difference do you think it's going to make anyway . not like the general public have any say in how the country is run . Gillard/mad monk , either way this country is ****ed . I just don't bother to take any notice of what's going on with our government as i cbf getting all worked up over something i have no say in . and yes i vote .



I normally just close my eyes and stab the pen on the piece of paper at election time

I know what you mean. It would be great if everyone put the sitting member last and turned our representative system, which is not representative, upside down.

So a mate of Tony Abbott's stretched out the investigation for 4 years? Some mate. It has also been noted that he had nothing to do with the investigation so as to avoid a conflict of interest.

His story has so many holes I can't belive any sane person can still stick up for him.

From todays heraldsun:


The weight of evidence, when compared with the claims of innocence made by MP Craig Thomson, is seemingly overwhelming.
What he claims:

Someone had the wherewithal to concoct his telephone record through a phone hack from four years before the time any allegations about him came to light, just in case such details might have emerged in a Fairfax defamation action.

What we know:

Court documents subpoenaed from that action show Mr Thomson's mobile phone number called Sydney Escorts Room Service at 11.13pm on April 7, 2005, and again at 12.05am on April 8, 2005. At 11.12pm, on April 7, 2005, shortly before those phone calls, Mr Thomson's phone telephoned a number that a Google search has uncovered as another escort agency, A Gorgeous Blonde Model. Around these phone calls were calls from Mr Thomson's phone to union officials and Labor Party people.

What he claims:

He never paid prostitutes on a union credit card.

What we know:

Not only did he pay them, he even swapped the payments between credit cards. Court documents show he charged several prostitute services to a union Diners Club credit card, charging payments of $570, $550 and $550 on his union Diners Club card to Sydney Escorts Room Service on April 7 and 8, 2005, only to reverse them. Then, on April 9, 2005, he paid $2475 to Sydney Escorts Room Service on his union Mastercard, with the company taking a record of his driver's licence and signature on the voucher.

What he claims:

Mr Thomson booked other hotel rooms so perhaps they were used by other union officials to telephone prostitutes. Maybe that's why his hotel room phone records show calls to escorts.

What we know:

On April 5, 2006, a call was made from Mr Thomson's hotel room at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne to Young Blondes escort agency and later to Confidential Models escort agency. On June 7, 2006 a call was made from his room at Pacific International Suites in Melbourne to an escort agency called Bad Girls.

The bill for the phone call was paid by his credit card.

What he claims:

He never used prostitutes on the union credit card.

What we know:

His telephone phoned Sydney Escort Connections – also paid by the credit card – at 12.55am on August 16, 2007.

But just before his mobile telephone made the call to Sydney Escort Connections, Mr Thomson's records show a call was made to a telephone number for Boardroom Escorts at 12.55am the same morning. His MasterCard shows a $330 payment for escort services from Aboutoun Catering North Sydney in 2003. His Mastercard was used on August 26, 2006, to charge $660 to Staff Call which operated a brothel. Two lots of $385 payments were made to Sydney Escorts Room Service on August 16, 2007, and his telephone was used to call Sydney Escort Connections and Boardroom Escorts at 12.55am the same morning. His signature on the sales voucher and licence number on the voucher?

What he claims:

The police should simply be able to access CCTV footage at brothels, like during his alleged visit to Tiffany's in Sydney in July 2005.

What we know:

Claims that brothels are required to keep CCTV footage are false. The NSW Government has confirmed there is no such provision. Besides, the evidence shows Mr Thomson mostly had prostitutes visit his hotel rooms. There only seems one visit to a brothel paid for on the cards.

What he claims:

If Fair Work Australia had done its investigation properly – and interviewed his half-brother, a union official he helped get a job – it would have found he was threatened in 2004 by Marco Bolano with being set up with hookers.

What we know:

Fair Work Australia found: “Mr Thomson has not, however, provided any evidence in support of this submission in the form of a statement or statutory declaration from Mr Robertson, or indeed from any other individual who may be able to verify this submission”. As well, Marco Bolano, the HSU official accused by Mr Thomson of setting him up with prostitutes, said he never threatened Mr Thomson. Instead he recalls speaking with Mr Thomson's half-brother, but says it is “preposterous” to suggest any threats were made of the kind alleged by the MP. And Mr Bolano says he only began work for the HSU in 2005 – whereas some of the transactions go back to 2003.

What he claims:

The claim that he took $101,000 in cash from ATMs unaccounted for is rubbish.

What we know:

Fair Work found that hardly any receipts were kept for the transactions and that Mr Thomson gave only himself the permission to make cash withdrawals on a credit card when he dished them out to union officials, requiring others to make accounted for transactions.

AT LAST

Labor Party Genius!!


Yes - they've finally cracked it!



At long last Labor has somebody who can organise a root in a brothel.!!!



Ignoring the paltry 6g on hookers for a minute, the figure they're talking about is $500,000. Hundred thousand dollars in cash withdrawals?? Seems like a crazy long leash to me! Just how much pocket money are these people given access to?

I believe that Craig Thompson should be reinstated with all his powers to mc the Mambo 2012.

knigit said...

At long last Labor has somebody who can organise a root in a brothel.!!!

Gold