Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Murdoch
British Member of Parliament (MP) Chris Bryant, has stated regarding
News Corp, owned by villainous Rupert Murdoch, "American law is
much tougher than UK law: you don't have to prove that a director knew
it. The mere fact that a company engaged in paying public officials is
enough to bring a body corporate charge … the charge can be brought
because the directors did not have a governance system in place to stop
it."
Bryant's statements come in the wake of a secret tape made by a News
Corp employee, being released to the public this week, featuring
Murdoch in a private meeting, slipping up in revealing he's known of
and is in agreement with criminal activity taking place at News Corp,
such as bribing police in the phone hacking scandal. It confirmed what
the Judiciary Report has stated for years, Murdoch is the man behind
the criminal activity at News Corp and his employees were following his
orders. The man believes he is above the law.
Rupert Murdoch
The U.S. government needs to bring charges against Murdoch and News
Corp. The company has engaged in phone hacking, hacking, wiretapping
and bribery on U.S. shores as well, all on Murdoch's orders. However,
the head of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller, is in Murdoch's back pocket.
Former News Corp executive Dan Cooper stated publicly that Fox News
has a secret department in its New York building devoted to phone
hacking, wiretapping and other invasive, illegal activities for scoops
and stories to run on the network and its website,
"Most
people thought it was simply the research department of Fox News. I
knew it also housed a counter intelligence and black ops office. So
accessing phone records was easy pie. It was staffed by 15 researchers
and had a guard at the door. No one working there would engage in
conversation” (
Fox
News Has A Secret Phone Hacking Department In The Building Says Former
Employee). This is illegal.
STORY SOURCE
US should press corrupt practices charges against
Murdoch, says MP
Secret recording 'another reason' for FBI to act,
says MP, amid anger at News Corp boss's cash for police tips claim
Thursday 4 July 2013 15.37 EDT - Rupert Murdoch, whose comments to
Sun staff at a meeting in March were secretly recorded. A prominent
Labour MP has said US authorities should press corporate corruption
charges against Rupert Murdoch's global empire after he admitted in a
secretly recorded meeting with staff on the Sun that payments to police
were part of "the culture of Fleet Street".
Chris Bryant, who has been compensated for phone hacking by the
defunct News of the World, said the latest revelations were
"another reason" for the FBI to take action under the foreign
corrupt practices act, which makes it an offence for American companies
to pay public officials on foreign soil.
The MP for Rhondda said he had spoken to the Met police, and claimed
the force had been in touch with the FBI. But he added that he believed
the UK authorities were reluctant to consider bringing any corporate
corruption charges in the UK because the force was "waiting for
Operation Elveden [the investigation into unlawful payments made to
public officials] to finish".
Meanwhile, Labour colleague Tom Watson, MP for West Bromwich East,
has written to a leading US politician, Senator John D Rockefeller,
asking him to ensure the US authorities' investigations into News
Corporation "are not inhibited in going to the very top".
The latest scandal over alleged payments to police erupted after Sun
journalists secretly taped a 45-minute meeting in March between Murdoch
and at least 24 staff who had been arrested in relation to Scotland
Yard's Elveden investigation...
Murdoch says: "We're talking about payments for news tips from
cops. That's been going on a hundred years, absolutely. You didn't
instigate it." Bryant believes this is enough for the US
authorities to act: "American law is much tougher than UK law: you
don't have to prove that a director knew it. The mere fact that a
company engaged in paying public officials is enough to bring a body
corporate charge … the charge can be brought because the directors
did not have a governance system in place to stop it."
He said he had been told by the Met that they had been in talks with
the FBI. Mark Lewis, the lawyer representing the Dowler family and
other phone-hacking victims, said Murdoch's private remarks would be
held up by lawyers in the US where a number of civil claims are being
prepared over phone hacking under various US acts, including the stored
communications act and the wiretap act.
He said: "No doubt the FBI will be very interested in comments
that suggest a senior director of a company was fully aware of payments
to foreign officials. As far as the US claims are concerned, this
raises further evidence of knowledge at the highest levels of News Corp
of unlawful activities."...
