Simon Greenberg

News Corp.’s Internal Hacking Probers Confuse Skeptics

If there was any doubt about the gravity of the mission facing the three members of News Corp.’s management-and-standards committee, board member Viet Dinh dispelled it at a meeting held a year ago in a 13th-floor conference room with a panoramic view of London.

Wachtell, Simpson, O’Melveny, McDermott, Cahill: Business of Law

Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to pay $6.7 billion for a 45 percent stake in the U.K.’s Alliance Boots GmbH in an attempt to create a global chain of pharmacies.

News Corp.’s Klein Steps Down From Internal Hacking Probe

News Corp. executive Joel Klein stepped down as the head of the company’s internal committee investigating phone hacking and bribery, passing the role to General Counsel Gerson Zweifach.

News International Names Greenberg Public Affairs Head After Hacking Probe

News Corp.’s News International unit hired Simon Greenberg as director of corporate affairs after one of its newspapers suspended an editor over phone hacking claims.

News Corp. Hacking Troubleshooter Worked With Reporter Arrested in Probe

News Corp.’s Simon Greenberg, a member of an internal panel tasked with reviewing phone hacking at the News of the World and the company’s other U.K. newspapers, once oversaw a reporter at another publication arrested last week in a police probe.

Rupert Murdoch Made Brooks a Priority, As Did Prosecutors

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch arrived in London last July to take charge of a burgeoning phone-hacking scandal and was asked by reporters what his priority was.

Greenberg Sees ‘Political Agenda’ in Ouster Calls, he Tells Sky

Simon Greenberg, corporate affairs director of News Corp.’s U.K. unit News International told Sky News in an interview that calls for News International Chief Executive Officer Rebekah Brooks to go were “clearly” part of a “political agenda” that encompassed the News Corp. deal to buy the 61 percent of British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc that it doesn’t already own.

News Corp. Evidence of Obstruction Mounts Amid James Murdoch’s Resignation

Before Rebekah Brooks was arrested last year over her role in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal, she staved off a police threat of obstruction charges related to the company unit she headed, according to two people familiar with the matter.

BNP, Foreclosure Suit, RBS, Barclays, AT&T in Court News

BNP Paribas SA was sued by the U.S. over allegations the Paris-based bank aided a grain export fraud scheme involving commodity payment guarantees provided by the Department of Agriculture.

News Corp. Has ‘New Information’ on Phone Hacking Case, Sky Says

News Corp.’s News International unit has “found significant, new information” regarding allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, Sky News reported, citing an interview with Simon Greenberg, corporate affairs director of the company’s U.K. unit.

"The e-mails in question were passed to police some time ago."

- Simon Greenberg on Jul 06, 2011

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Payrolls in U.S. Rise 165,000 as Unemployment Rate Drops

U.S. Stocks Climb to Record as Jobs Growth Tops Forecasts

Billionaire Kaiser Exploiting Charity Loophole With Boats