Serial fraudster Craig Thomson, a former federal Labor MP, is facing the prospect of jail, having entered a guilty plea to submitting false and misleading documents to immigration officials, including submitting a document he knew had been forged.

In 2009, the Herald first revealed that Thomson, the former national secretary of the Health Services Union, had used his union credit card to pay $6000 for the services of sex workers. He had also withdrawn more than $100,000 in cash and bankrolled his 2007 election campaign for the central coast seat of Dobell.

Thomson sued the Herald for defamation over the story, but dropped the case in 2011 when further overwhelming evidence emerged, including that his driver’s licence number and signature were on credit card vouchers issued by a Surry

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