News Corp ends legal fees for hacking investigator

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LONDON (AP) - News Corp. says it has terminated legal payments to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator implicated in the phone hacking scandal roiling Britain's establishment.

The termination of the payments Wednesday came one day after media baron Rupert Murdoch told lawmakers that he would try to find a way to stop the payments "provided it is not in breach of a legal contract."

Mulcaire's hiring of a high-flying defense lawyer has long led many to suspect that the company was footing his legal bills, possibly in a bid to buy the convicted criminal's silence.

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Committee members react after a protestor, left checked shirt , named on Twitter as Jonnie Marbles, tries to throw a paper plate covered in shaving foam over Rupert Murdoch as he gave evidence to a House of Commons Committee in London, Tuesday July 19, 2011, on the News of the World phone hacking scandal.(AP Photo/pa)

[DURHAM D]

1. These hearings were just theater.

This morning all anyone is talking about is the wonderful protective wife.

No one is talking about the a-hole at the top of it all.

[beac]

2. Any bets on how long before Mulcaire "kills himself"??

With his silence no longer being paid for, he is a HUGE liability for Voldemurdoch.

[greiner3]

3. How often;

Does a suspect gets shot from within Scotland Yard for trying to escape?

[snagglepuss]

4. The question is whether he keeps the priced lawyer. If so that means a "friend"

of Murdoch's may be picking up the tab.

[Kingofalldems]

5. After they were caught

[Hugin]

6. Gawd forbid I should ever do something foul enough to be called by the Culture and Sport Committee.

:eyes:

[Snoutport]

7. His apologies rang hollow...I'm sorry we hacked your phone...but we're still paying

the guy who did hacked it's legal fees.