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Judi Lynn

(160,076 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:39 PM Jun 2014

News Corp. Faces Possible Corporate Charges After Hacking Trial

Source: Bloomberg

News Corp. Faces Possible Corporate Charges After Hacking Trial
By Jeremy Hodges Jun 24, 2014 3:08 PM CT

News Corp. (NWSA) faces possible corporate charges related to phone hacking and bribery, prosecutors said during the eight-month trial that led to the conviction of former News of the World editor Andy Coulson.

On several occasions throughout the trial, prosecutors raised the prospect of corporate charges without giving details about when a decision would be made on whether to file an indictment. Former senior officials at News Corp.’s U.K. unit have been questioned by British police relating to the charges.

London police also want to interview News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch as a suspect in the phone-hacking probe, the Guardian newspaper reported, without citing sources. The interview will take place in the U.K. in the near future, the newspaper said on its website.

Rebekah Brooks, former head of News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit, was found not guilty today by a London jury of phone hacking, bribery and perverting the course of justice. Coulson, who later became a media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, was found guilty of one count of phone hacking. The verdicts were the result of a scandal that erupted three years ago upon revelations that News of the World reporters hacked the phone of a murdered teenager, Milly Dowler.


Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-24/news-corp-faces-possible-corporate-charges-after-hacking-trial.html

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News Corp. Faces Possible Corporate Charges After Hacking Trial (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2014 OP
Could this be the death knell for Fox Noise? meow2u3 Jun 2014 #1
I wouldn't hold my breath on it davidpdx Jun 2014 #2
Nope. mwooldri Jun 2014 #3

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
2. I wouldn't hold my breath on it
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:36 PM
Jun 2014

Wealth and lawyers equal no justice. Personally I'd like to see Murdock nailed to a bottom of a boat for fish food.

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
3. Nope.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:59 PM
Jun 2014

It's an affair that covers Murdoch's UK outfits. The only adverse action that this could have is to get Fox News Channel pulled from UK airwaves - by finding Rupert Murdoch unfit to hold a TV broadcast license. This threat alone scuttled Murdoch's bid to gain full control of BSkyB. It would mean that other Fox TV networks available in the UK would go off air too. No big loss though... programming normally found on a Fox network is generally available on one of Sky's channels.

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