Disgraced former federal MP Craig Thomson running migrant placement scheme

By Deborah Snow
Updated September 24 2016 - 2:23am, first published 12:15am
Craig Thomson at court in 2014. The former MP was convicted of theft from the Health Services Union but escaped a jail term. Photo: Paul Jeffers
Craig Thomson at court in 2014. The former MP was convicted of theft from the Health Services Union but escaped a jail term. Photo: Paul Jeffers
The letterhead of Craig Thomson's Wickerman Group echoes the title of an iconic 1970s horror movie. Photo: James Brickwood
The letterhead of Craig Thomson's Wickerman Group echoes the title of an iconic 1970s horror movie. Photo: James Brickwood

Disgraced former federal MP Craig Thomson is running a migrant worker placement business from his home base on the NSW central coast, offering incentives which appear to exploit loopholes in laws designed to crack down on the abuse of visa schemes in regional Australia.

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