DISGRACED former MP Craig Thomson should be jailed immediately for his arrogant and remorseless breach of trust, a court has heard.
Prosecutors today called for Thomson to be sentenced to an immediate term of imprisonment for misusing Health Services Union funds to pay for, among other things, prostitutes.
Lesley Taylor, SC, told the Melbourne Magistrates Court anything less than an immediate jail term would be “manifestly inadequate”.
Michael Smith is running a number of articles on Craig Thomson on his blog today.
Craig gets sentenced next Tuesday.
Sentenced to 12 months, suspended after serving 3 months.
Sentenced to 12 months, suspended after serving 3 months.
+1There should have been a community service element. Like visiting his former members and telling them the evils of corruption.
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The three months seems almost insultingly minimal but I guess in time the actual period will be forgotten but he will always be remembered as 'the corrupt Thomson who went to jail for stealing from some of the most disadvantaged workers in Australia'.
And then there's the reality that the total disgrace he has brought upon himself and the likelihood he'll never again be able to get decent employment is the greatest punishment of all.
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The three months seems almost insultingly minimal but I guess in time the actual period will be forgotten but he will always be remembered as 'the corrupt Thomson who went to jail for stealing from some of the most disadvantaged workers in Australia'.
And then there's the reality that the total disgrace he has brought upon himself and the likelihood he'll never again be able to get decent employment is the greatest punishment of all.
I reckon he'll get weekend detention.
He deserves more but he has friends in high places.
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I think it is a case of "Me ipsum iudicem everteret hircum" or "Turpitudinem et capram iudex pictures"
Google translate:
Judge myself rooting for the buck "or" pictures of the judge's goat
This low life has the audacity to say that he is innocent, still.
If we were playing by Union/Labor standards he would have a case. But in the real world he has been found guilty of being a scum bag (stealing from the poor).
He should be grateful for the absolutely inadequate sentence given by the Judge.
(I would be interested in the background of the Judge).
Is it obvious that I don't like Thomson and what he stands for?
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