Andy Coulson Found Guilty In The Phone Hacking Case (Confirming Previous Claims I Made About Him On The Site)

A verdict was rendered yesterday in the Rupert Murdoch News Corp phone hacking case in London, England, regarding a story I broke first that became a global scandal. Via a formal, online complaint I retained a copy of and posted to my website, I reported Murdoch, his company News Corp, it's U.K. subsidiary News Group Newspapers/News International and his fellow Kabbalah Center cult member, Madonna, to the Metropolitan Police for illegal wiretapping (phone hacking) and computer hacking, among other things. 

I spoke to a Metropolitan Police constable over the phone about it as well in October 2005. 6-months later the Metropolitan Police made the first arrests in the case when they discovered Rupert Murdoch's employees were illegally phone hacking the British royal family. One of Murdoch's private investigators, in addition to another man who worked for Murdoch, newspaper employee, Clive Goodman, were convicted and sent to prison for the offenses. The case was rebooted in 2012, with a string of new arrests. 

Yesterday, Andy Coulson, Murdoch's former editor at the now shuttered News Of The World newspaper, who later became communications director to affable British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was found guilty of phone hacking. Years ago, I warned Cameron had made a mistake hiring Coulson, because based on what I'd heard, Murdoch used him and others to spy on the Prime Minister and British national secrets (April 13, 2011 Judiciary Report article "Has Rupert Murdoch Ever Spied On A World Government For Another" and July 19, 2011's "News Corp Continued To Pay Andy Coulson After He Quit To Spy On British Government"). 

Yesterday, Cameron apologized for hiring Coulson. Yesterday, the Independent newspaper in London reported, "Today, the Prime Minister (David Cameron) said he took 'full responsibility' for Coulson's appointment, and that he had received assurances which have now proved to be false...the Labour leader Ed Miliband responded to the verdict by saying Mr Cameron had 'brought a criminal into the heart of Downing Street.'" 

Andy Coulson

I have nothing against Cameron (or Miliband for that matter). It's puppet masters Murdoch and Madonna I have off. They are the ones behind the criminally commissioned phone hacking that others have illegally gone along with. As I reported on this site two years ago, during a trip to London on business that began in April 2012, I encountered Andy Coulson one week after arriving in town (April 28, 2012 Judiciary Report article "News Corp's Andy Coulson From The Phone Hacking Scandal Is Struggling With Mental Illness").

I was staying in the London suburb Dulwich at my cousin's house. My cousin's a brilliant doctor, who has lived in Dulwich for over 20-years. I was on the main road outside the street my cousin lives on and saw Coulson walking in my direction. He was slowly walking with his bicycle beside him. I saw him looking at me (he knew of me from my websites that all of News Corp has read  regularly for years, showing up in site statistics, then I made the police complaint against them over phone hacking and computer hacking).

When Coulson and I made eye contact, I maintained no facial expression (and no I don't use botox) and didn't say a word to him, but he angrily started muttering to himself whilst staring at me, then looked down and continued audibly muttering, slowly walking up the street (why was he walking his bicycle instead of riding it). In that moment I realized he had become mentally-ill, as so many other members of the Kabbalah Center are schizophrenic. 

The Metropolitan Police still has an open investigation into computer hacking, in regards to the British arm of News Corp in London and arrests have been made. Coulson's colleague at News Corp, Rebekah Brooks, who was also Murdoch's mistress, was found not guilty, having been painted as a hapless, bumbling editor, who didn't know what her staff was doing. However, she did and in time the truth will come out. Brooks knew what was going on the whole time.

Brooks has bullied, threatened, terrorized and ruined stars and politicians in Britain in unprovoked acts. She richly deserves the fall from grace she has experienced, which she is complaining about in the press. However, it's not over. I have more scandals to break on Madonna, Murdoch and company, who are in my forthcoming book and film "Justice and Truth." The worst is yet to come for Madonna, Murdoch and company.

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Hacking trial: David Cameron issues 'full and frank apology' after Andy Coulson guilty verdict completes rise and fall of PM's trusted adviser

CNN Ends Piers Morgan's Show But Is It Due To Him Being Questioned By Police In London For Phone Hacking

Piers Morgan

This is a follow up to the Judiciary Report's series of phone hacking articles, regarding a story I broke first in 2005, via a formal, written police complaint to the Metropolitan Police in London, England. Since the time of the police complaint I filed, 100 people have been arrested in connection with the scandal. People are still being investigated by the police regarding the case.

CNN has announced they are cancelling the Piers Morgan Live program, after 3-years on the air. When Morgan was announced as the replacement for Larry King, whose show was on the air for 25-years, the Judiciary Report stated it wouldn't work and Morgan is not the right replacement. 4-years on, time has proven the Judiciary Report correct, as his ratings are abysmal.

 

Rupert Murdoch

However, Morgan has also been embroiled in the phone hacking scandal, which I broke first. Morgan was interviewed by police this month regarding claims he actively phone hacked people, illegally mining their phone calls and messages for items to print in the newspapers as scoops, when he was working for Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News Of The World and at the Daily Mirror. Tapes indicate Morgan did indeed break the law, as he was heard owning up to the misconduct that he is now backpedaling from, claiming complete ignorance (I know you did it).

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Report: CNN's Piers Morgan Live Will End This Spring

Saturday, February 22, 2014 - Piers Morgan and CNN President Jeff Zucker have come to a mutual agreement to end Morgan's show, Piers Morgan Live, as early as next month, according to the New York Times. "It's been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings," Morgan told the Times, possibly referencing a recent dust-up in which he clashed with Laverne Cox and Janet Mock during an interview about transgender issues...

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Phone Hacking Scandal Plagued Rupert Murdoch Is Embezzling Money From News Corp

Murdoch Family Is Cheating Shareholders

This is a follow up to the Judiciary Report's series of phone hacking articles, regarding a story I broke first, via a formal, written police complaint to the Metropolitan Police in London, England. Since the time of the police complaint I filed, 100 people have been arrested in connection with the scandal. People are still being investigated by the police regarding the case.

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch's greed knows no end. Not content with stealing the assets of companies he illegally sabotaged and pillaged in violation of the law, Murdoch and members of his family have been embezzling money from News Corp, misappropriating funds which eats into shareholder profits.

Madonna crony and fellow Kabbalah Center member Murdoch, is operating under the unethical premise that News Corp is his company, but once you open a corporation up to the stock market and sell shares to the public, there is legal accountability. Conrad Black went to prison for far less than Murdoch is doing. Why does Murdoch think his unlawful conduct is acceptable. 

Side Bar: I'm still being harassed by the Kabbalah Center, so I'm going to keep writing about their crimes the public doesn't know about...

Rupert Murdoch's Obsession With Sienna Miller In The Phone Hacking Case Over His Sexual Attraction To Her

 

Sienna Miller

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England, one of my many exclusives. 100 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]

News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, has been obsessed with actress Sienna Miller for years. Many of his newspapers’ stories targeted her for that very reason. It went well beyond a desire to report on a popular celebrity, whom employees felt would sell papers and thus illegally spied on. It was Murdoch’s fixation with pretty Sienna that led his papers to go after her so aggressively on his orders. 

My source informed me that Murdoch wanted Miller sexually and became obsessed. However, Miller was looking at men in her own age group and bedded actor Daniel Craig (and Jude Law, among others). Murdoch became upset that the source of his obsession was actively carrying on with other men. He wanted to own her, but she was in love with others at different times.

Rupert Murdoch

Miller's press turned particularly cruel at Murdoch’s hands due to him being an incompetent suitor watching her pursue others. Murdoch took a greater interest in spying on Miller for voyeuristic reasons due to this fixation, well outside what his papers were doing in violating the privacy of other stars.

Miller was one of the people who’s privacy was invaded more than others due to Murdoch's obsession with her and he tried to make her suffer, as his company's misconduct touched her family life as well, when calculated things were done to her by Murdoch's papers on his instructions to make her believe her own family had betrayed her.

Murdoch turned into a real "dirty old man" when it came to Sienna and tried to punish her with terrible press over her sexual relationships he was jealous of like a stalker. Maybe if Murdoch had looked like George Clooney or an older Paul Newman he would have had a real chance with Sienna (LOL).

Rupert Murdoch Finalizes Divorce From Wife Wendi Who Knows His Dirty Secrets (Including Phone Hacking)

If looks could kill... Murdoch getting the death stare from wife Wendi

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England. 90 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]

It was announced recently that malevolent media magnate Rupert Murdoch, responsible for the horrible phone hacking and computer hacking scandals, has finalized his divorce from third wife Wendi Murdoch. The News Corp chairman sent press quotes via a representative, stating the settlement, regarding the dissolution of marriage was amicable. However, The Judiciary Report was advised it was anything but.

Rupert Murdoch: and she better keep quiet after all the money I paid her...

Murdoch, whose dirty style of tabloid journalism ended many a marriage around the world, via tell-alls and bribes for dirt on high profile marriages, got a dose of his own medicine via Wendi, who is half his age, cheating on him. Murdoch also cheated during his three marriages as well. The disgraced and public animosity that enveloped the Murdoch family during the phone hacking scandal also placed a terrible strain on his marriage to Wendi, who was well compensated to keep quiet about what she knows, which is enough to land Murdoch in prison for life. 

Phone Hacking Trail Begins In London As Rupert Murdoch's Employees Face Potential Prison Sentences

 

Rupert Murdoch's mistress and former editor Rebekah Brooks arrives to court looking like she's been bawling

 

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England. 90 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]

 

Rupert Murdoch

 

The highly anticipated phone hacking trails began in London, England this week, regarding Rupert Murdoch's News International, now named News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp, criminally phone hacking and computer hacking people for scoops to print in the newspaper and air on television (Sky is also owned by Murdoch's News Corp). The trial is estimated to run for six months.

Rebekah Brooks

 

Corrupt and cowardly Murdoch has left his employees to take the fall for him in the case, as former editor, Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, among others, are potentially facing time in prison for the aforementioned offenses. The Judiciary Report insisted all along that Murdoch knew of the crimes being committed as orders came straight from the top.
 
After the Judiciary Report made said claim, a secretly recorded tape was released featuring Murdoch making statements revealing he knew about and condone the crimes being committed all along (Metropolitan Police Formally Demands Secret Tape Of Rupert Murdoch Admitting Guilt In Bribery And Phone Hacking Scandal).

 Andy Coulson (News Corp's Andy Coulson From The Phone Hacking Scandal Is Struggling With Mental Illness)

In the meantime Murdoch has other problems to contend with in the legal arena. As the site revealed years ago, Murdoch's wife, Wendi Murdoch, has been cheating on him. Recently, Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife, who is half his age and quite unfaithful as well. She is already complaining he is turning his unsavory legal tactics on her during the divorce (Rupert Murdoch's Wife Demands New Lawyers Fearing He Corrupted Current Counsel).

Jared Kushner (left) and Wendi Murdoch (right)

Yea, have fun with that Mrs. Murdoch #3 (sarcasm). You defended him in court, pimp slapped a pie thrower in Parliament, in defense of a man who ordered his staff spy on deceased murdered children, via phone hacking and investigating their families. Did you really think he would play by the rules or follow the law in divorce proceedings with you. You're a well educated woman. Certainly you are not naive.

Rupert Murdoch's Wife Demands New Lawyers Fearing He Corrupted Current Counsel

Wendi Murdoch: I don't trust this shifty Gordon Gecco wannabe

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England. 90 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]

Wendi Murdoch, nee Deng, the third wife of embattled News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch, has demanded new lawyers in their contentious divorce, fearing her husband did his usual and corrupted counsel. This is ironic, as Deng, among others in Murdoch's circle, sat back and said nothing about the corruption, invasion of privacy and bribery he engaged in against innocent phone hacking victims (including deceased children).

Rupert Murdoch: uh oh she's trying to hit me in the pockets

However, now that the tables have turned and Deng is squaring off against corrupt Murdoch in divorce court, seeks to complain. Deng knows enough to send Murdoch to prison. As he is the father of her two daughters, she has thus far avoided this route. However, if he plays dirty with her in divorce court, using the same criminal tactics he has used against innocent people in the phone hacking case, her graciousness and restraint may change. We can only hope...

Another Rupert Murdoch Employee From News Of The World Charged With Phone Hacking As Shareholders Demand He Resign

NOTE: This article has been repeatedly hacked and deleted from the internet by Madonna's Kabbalah Center hacker. I will work to keep putting it back online each time it is unlawfully hacked and removed. 

Murdoch In The Midst Of Newspaper Sell Off

Rupert Murdoch 

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England. 90 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]

Daniel Evans, 37, a former employee of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, who worked for the now defunct newspaper News Of The World, has been hit with four charges in relation to the phone hacking scandal and bribery of public officials. He is the first journalist to be charged with offenses in the case and one of many who has been arrested.

Gregor McGill a lawyer for the Crown Prosecution Service in Britain stated to the press, "We have concluded that there is sufficient evidence, and it is in the public interest, to charge Daniel Evans with four offences in connection with the phone hacking investigations."

In other News Corp developments, Murdoch has sold off 33 newspapers in America, under a company split, which will not solve his problems. Shareholders have also renewed calls for him to step down, due to all the bad publicity emanating from the phone hacking scandal.

Murdoch has refused to leave, though his presence has damaged the company and tarnished the brand, with recent revelations confirming the claims the Judiciary Report made from the outset: Metropolitan Police Formally Demands Secret Tape Of Rupert Murdoch Admitting Guilt In Bribery And Phone Hacking Scandal.

Rupert Murdoch and Wendi. Look at her giving him side eye. Now she wants a new lawyer for fear Murdoch has corrupted opposing counsel. You were fine with him phone hacking and robbing everybody in shady business deals and illegal corporate takeovers (not to mention outright theft of intellectual property via admitted hacking). Now that you're on the receiving end of the mistreatment you're upset.

The fact of the matter is if I had been lying about Murdoch at any time, especially on a platform online, my sites, that reaches millions, he could have sued me for defamation and libel. However, by the grace of God, time has revealed my allegations to be true and there's more to come...

Ironically, this man even defamed me on the Fox News site when I began uncovering his criminal conduct online and reporting his company and Kabbalah cohort Madonna to the police (as stated above I was the first to file a formal complaint about phone hacking and going public with it in 2005).

However, when I started writing about them and it took off, they started sending people up to me in public on the streets of Miami to demand I stop. They also began having people email me telling ordering me to take items down from the sites. What a bunch of hypocrites. Murdoch routinely defames people in his papers and Madonna is always arranging interviews where she talks pure crap, yet they are trying to deny me my right to free speech. They can dish it but can't take it.

I was informed Murdoch hates it when I write about his marriages, as I have been very facetious. However, this man has caused me and my family so much distress. We're enemies. What was he expecting, that I wasn't going to fight back or saying anything. Comedy is my writing tool of choice.

He's in his 80, married to a 43-year-old woman half his age, who only said yes because of his money and connections, but he convinced himself it's because he (allegedly) looks like Hugh Jackman or one of the Hemsworth Brothers and he really thought I wasn't going to write something about that. Now, had he been charming or looked like an older Paul Newman, people would have believed she married Murdoch for love. I think that kind of lack of self awareness is hysterical.

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Man charged with four offences related to phone hacking

12:09pm, Tue 3 Sep 2013 - A man has been charged with four offences in connection with the phone hacking investigations, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced. Senior lawyer Gregor McGill said Daniel Evans will appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court on 4 September 2013…

http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk

Corp shareholders renew call for Rupert Murdoch to step down - Dissident shareholders file resolution calling for appointment of independent chairman

Wednesday 8 May 2013 13.54 EDT - A resolution has been filed by News Corp shareholders in the US, UK and Canada calling for Rupert Murdoch to step down. Dissident shareholders are pressing once more for media mogul Rupert Murdoch to step down as chairman of News Corporation.

Shareholders from the US, UK and Canada filed a resolution on Tuesday calling for News Corp to appoint an independent chairman. A similar resolution attracted strong support at the media company's annual shareholder meeting last year.

The proposal was introduced by Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), which manages $4.6bn for Catholic institutions worldwide. It is backed by the UK's Local Authority Pension Fund Forum, with assets of £115bn ($178.9bn), and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, one of Canada's largest institutional investors...

http://www.theguardian.com

Metropolitan Police Formally Demand Secret Tape Of Rupert Murdoch Admitting Guilt In Bribery And Phone Hacking Scandal

Rupert Murdoch

[Article background: this is another in the series of phone hacking articles the Judiciary Report has published, regarding a scandal I broke first in October 2005, via a police complaint I filed with the Metropolitan Police in London, England. 80 people have been arrested by the Metropolitan Police since the time I filed the complaint. However, the Murdochs and other key conspirators remain free and the FBI has not arrested anyone, though the crimes began and continue in News Corp's New York headquarters]
 
A secretly made tape recorded in March 2013 and leaked this week, featuring News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch admitting guilt in the police bribery and phone hacking scandal, is officially being demanded by the Metropolitan Police in London, England. The tape was leaked by employees bitter that Murdoch has "hung them out to dry" and is making them take the fall for him and his family.

The police have been investigating Murdoch and co and arrested 100 people in the scandal. Thus far, despite the Judiciary Report’s adamant claims since 2005 that Murdoch ordered the crimes being committed at the company, there was no hard evidence of him admitting it, until the aforementioned tape that was leaked this week. In closing, I state with all professionalism, Murdoch, I hope the police put their foot in your butt…

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Scotland Yard seeks Rupert Murdoch secret tape

The Guardian, Friday 5 July 2013 13.59 EDT - In tape, Murdoch is heard admitting to Sun journalists that payments to public officials were part of 'culture of Fleet Street. Scotland Yard detectives were on Friday attempting to track down a secret recording of Rupert Murdoch admitting to Sun journalists that payments to public officials were part of "the culture of Fleet Street".

A police officer connected to the Operation Elveden investigation into illicit payments from journalists has made a formal request to Exaro News, the investigations website that broke the story, to hand over the undercover tape. DCI Laurence Smith told Exaro News that the police would seek a production order compelling it to disclose the recording if it did not do so voluntarily. It is understood the police have also approached Channel 4, which aired a small part of the recordings.

The development is the clearest indication yet that police in London are ready to examine Murdoch's private disclosures since the tapes emerged on Wednesday night. Murdoch is recorded saying the culture of paying police officers for stories "existed at every newspaper in Fleet Street. Long since forgotten. But absolutely."…

Evan Harris, the associate director of the group, wrote to the cross-party committee's chairman, John Whittingdale MP, saying: "There is a strong prima facie case that Mr Murdoch may have committed contempt of parliament by misleading your committee over his true response to the police investigations into phone hacking and bribery of public officials.

"As far as the victims of phone hacking are concerned, the appropriate course of action is for the committee
to recall him at the earliest available opportunity to explain the discrepancies between the expressions of remorse he made to you and the defiant and unrepentant tone of his private remarks earlier this year."...

http://www.guardian.co.uk

Wendi Deng Murdoch Cheated On Rupert Murdoch Getting The Yang Somewhere Else

Sorry, I Don't Know The Chinese Word For "Penis" Or "Sex" Hence The Use Of The Word "Yang"

Rupert Murdoch and soon to be ex-wife Wendi Murdoch, who is looking awfully bored in that picture.

For years the Judiciary Report has repeatedly implied Wendi Murdoch, the wife of media villain Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp, has been cheating on him (he filed for divorce last month). Wendi, who is 40-years younger than Murdoch, left her other older husband to be with him and he did the same regarding his wife of three decades. It was a match made in hell, as heaven wouldn't bring something like that together, hurting others via divorce so their spouse can run off with someone else.

When one marries someone half one's age, one runs the risk that the person may cheat with someone younger. Wendi did, as did the late Anna Nichole Smith, after marrying a man over 50-years her senior. The minute he said I do, Smith left the ailing man in Texas to go have sex with hunky men.

Both Wendi and Anna married for money and privilege, rather than love and it backfired, when their spouses turned on them for cheating. Don't get me wrong, not all women engage in said conduct (However, Wendi and Anna are two high profile examples people know of, who can be cited in this article). There are women who marry older men and are faithful to them. If one enters into a marriage, one should honor those vows. It is the right, decent thing to do.

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Rupert Murdoch Files For Divorce From Flirty Wife Wendi 

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Loveless Body In Pointless Marriage

Member Of British Parliament Recommends The U.S. Government Charge Rupert Murdoch With Corrupt Practices (Phone Hacking And Bribery)

 

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.

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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."...

http://www.guardian.co.uk