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London police investigating bribery at News Corp.’s best-selling Sun tabloid and other titles gave files of evidence on seven suspects to British prosecutors who will consider filing criminal charges.
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News Corp.’s U.K. publishing unit, under investigation by London police for hacking into voice mails and bribing public officials, may have also taken information from stolen phones.
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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.
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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.
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News Corp.’s British publishing unit said it’s aware London police are considering whether corporate charges may be brought against its board over phone hacking at its now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
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News Corp.’s Sun newspaper had a “culture” of corrupt payments to public officials and paid one source more than 80,000 pounds ($127,000), the police officer in charge of probes into bribery and phone hacking said.
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Journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s best-selling Sun tabloid in Britain are paying for a culture of bribery that may have been an industry standard until scrutiny from News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal put an end to it.
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British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc gained approval to keep its broadcast license, a U.K. regulator ruled, while criticizing board member James Murdoch’s reaction to phone-hacking revelations at News Corp., which owns 39 percent of the country’s biggest pay-TV operator.
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The private investigator jailed in 2007 for hacking phones for News Corp.’s now defunct News of the World tabloid targeted at least 18 lawmakers, police said.
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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.
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