EX-NEWS CORP EXEC CRIMINALLY CHARGED IN SCANDAL

Rebekah Brooks, who was once one of Rupert Murdoch’s closest associates — sometimes called his protégée — is among the first persons criminally charged in the scandal that has hit Murdoch’s newspaper business in Britain The Crown Prosecution Service — comparable to the U.S. Attorney General’s office — accused Brooks, the former head of News […]

U.K.’S HACKERGATE SCANDAL REARS ITS HEAD AGAIN

Britain’s “hackergate” scandal was revived today (Monday) as the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), equivalent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, said that it would look into charges that British police failed to investigate thoroughly charges that reporters at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World had hacked into the voicemail of celebrities and politicians. The move, said […]