By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Justice Department investigation into Rupert Murdoch-owned media companies won’t result in charges following allegations of voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K., the USA Today reports. News Corp. and 21st Century Fox were under investigation after hacking the voicemail accounts of sources, celebrities and politicians. They also…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI gave British prosecutors access to about 80,000 emails from Robert Murdoch’s News Corp. as part of the ongoing phone-hacking scandal involving the media giant, the New York Daily News reports. The news came Thursday as Murdoch was in London dealing with the conviction of one of his former star editors,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI probe into the Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal could being going beyond the 9/11 victims in the U.S. The BBC reports that the FBI plans to contact the actor Jude Law following allegations that his phone was hacked during a visit to the U.S. The BBC reported that a…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is now looking into the scandal involving Rupert Murdoch’s Brit reporters to see if they tried to access cellphone record messages and records of 9/11 victims, the Los Angeles Times reported. The FBI has opened up a preliminary probe into the scandal that has rocked Great Britain, and raised…
