Former Labor MP Craig Thomson says he will continue to fight to clear his name, his first public comment since former Health Services Union colleague Kathy Jackson was charged last week with 70 criminal offences relating to alleged theft and deception. Thomson was the first parliamentarian to be found guilty of contemptuously misleading the House of Representatives over a falsehood-laden defence against claims he stole funds from the HSU to pay for sexual services and political campaigning. He also was fined $25,000 after he was convicted of 13 counts of theft. Thomson said he hoped Ms Jackson’s charges would mean “stories peddled by (her) and her political cronies will be questioned for the first time.”
