With Phone-Hacking Cover-up Unraveling, News Corp. Faces More Legal Questions In U.S.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109230006

September 23, 2011 11:28 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Fresh evidence this week that the Department of Justice continues to dig into Rupert Murdoch’s business dealings here and abroad: U.S. investigators reportedly delivered a letter to News Corp. attorneys “requesting information on alleged payments employees made to U.K. police for tips,” according to Blooomberg.

The DOJ’s move, previously encouraged by several Democratic senators, comes in the wake of the Media Matters revelation last week that prosecutors have also reached out to a persistent News Corp. whistleblower, Robert Emmel, who has accused the company of corporate misconduct and unfair business practices. In 2009, Emmel starred as a witness at a civil trial in which a News Corp. subsidiary was accused of hacking a competitor’s website.

Those two developments come in the wake of the mini-bombshell in Britain this week alleging that, “Up to a dozen News International executives, including Rebekah Brooks, were told in 2006 that the Metropolitan Police had evidence that more than one News of the World journalist was implicated in the phone-hacking scandal.”

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1. K & R.

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2. k&r....thanks...great news

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3. 5 years for the kettle to finally boil.

Time to throw the lobsters in the pot.