Inquiry Leader Says Murdoch Papers Paid Off British Officials By SARAH LYALL Published: February 27, 2012
LONDON — The officer leading a police investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers said on Monday that reporters and editors at The Sun tabloid had over the years paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for information not only to police officers but also to a “network of corrupted officials” in the military and the government.
The officer, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers, said that e-mail records obtained by the police showed that there was a “culture at The Sun of illegal payments” that were authorized “at a very senior level within the newspaper” and involved “frequent and sometimes significant sums of money” paid to public officials in the Health Ministry and the prison service, among other agencies.
The testimony was a sharp new turn in a months-long judicial investigation of the behavior of Murdoch-owned and other newspapers, known as the Leveson inquiry. It detailed financial transactions that showed both the scale and the scope of alleged bribes, the covert nature of their payment and the seniority of newspaper executives accused of involvement.
this is why the GOP is floundering, the GOP began beleiving what Faux News said about them, and when Rupert told them waht the People want they beleived him.. neither of 'em were true...
Santorum is teh Fox choice now, and he can't possibly win if he goes agaisnt Obama.. not unless Obama suddenly grew horns during a debtate
Posted by raybond on :
Murdoch always was a piece of slime and fox is at the top of the dung heap. I hope they go down.
Posted by CashCowMoo on :
That old man has some fight in him thats for sure.
Posted by glassman on :
London: Singer Charlotte Church, who had sued Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World for hacking her phone, today received 600,000 pounds as damages and costs under a settlement at the High Court here.
The 26-year-old singer and her parents have agreed damages and costs of 600,000 pounds with News Group Newspapers, BBC reported.
The settlement includes 300,000 pounds in legal costs and a public apology.
Church said she was "sickened and disgusted" by what she discovered during her legal action against News International over phone hacking.
The singer's phone was hacked when she was 16 years old. The court agreed that 33 articles in the paper had been due to her family's voicemails being hacked, the report said.