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Gainzo · 07-22-2011, 03:04 PM

And the domino's start to fall in the USA.

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US shareholder sues Murdochs
Leonie Wood
July 23, 2011

A US investor who bought $US38,000 of News Corporation shares earlier this year has initiated a class action against the global media group, alleging the company and its executives engaged in fraudulent, misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to the phone-hacking scandal in Britain.

The US case, filed in New York, is the first federal-level lawsuit against News's US organisation to allege that the dramatic revelations in recent weeks of illegal activities inside the company's British newspaper division have damaged the group's share price.

Read more: US shareholder sues Murdochs

PatsFanInVa · 07-22-2011, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Gainzo

And the domino's start to fall in the USA.

drip... drip... drip...

Well, the Atlantic firewall isn't quite doing it. It's a matter of the extent of the contagion at this point.

And nobody who's ever worked for Murdoch buys the poor addled old man routine in Parliament. Throwing the underlings under the bus? Pure class, I tell you, pure class.

You know that a felon can't hold an FCC license? Okay, that just promotes Ales. But we'll see as threads get tugged how dirty Fox got (other than their known, business-as-usual dirtiness.)

drip... drip... drip...

The Brandon Five · 08-16-2011, 09:34 AM

Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up | Media | guardian.co.uk

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Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch and their former editor Andy Coulson all face embarrassing new allegations of dishonesty and cover-up after the publication of an explosive letter written by the News of the World's disgraced royal correspondent, Clive Goodman.

In the letter, which was written four years ago but published only on Tuesday, Goodman claims that phone hacking was "widely discussed" at editorial meetings at the paper until Coulson himself banned further references to it; that Coulson offered to let him keep his job if he agreed not to implicate the paper in hacking when he came to court; and that his own hacking was carried out with "the full knowledge and support" of other senior journalists, whom he named.

The claims are acutely troubling for the prime minister, David Cameron, who hired Coulson as his media adviser on the basis that he knew nothing about phone hacking. And they confront Rupert and James Murdoch with the humiliating prospect of being recalled to parliament to justify the evidence which they gave last month on the aftermath of Goodman's allegations. In a separate letter, one of the Murdochs' own law firms claim that parts of that evidence were variously "hard to credit", "self-serving" and "inaccurate and misleading".

Goodman's claims also raise serious questions about Rupert Murdoch's close friend and adviser, Les Hinton, who was sent a copy of the letter but failed to pass it to police and who then led a cast of senior Murdoch personnel in telling parliament that they believed Coulson knew nothing about the interception of the voicemail of public figures and that Goodman was the only journalist involved.

That's gonna leave a mark.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 08-16-2011, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by The Brandon Five

Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up | Media | guardian.co.uk

That's gonna leave a mark.

Damn those people who never delete their email!!!