Tuesday, December 13, 2011

James Murdoch warned over phone hacking.

      An email warnerd Jmaes Murdoch over hacking. He was wrote aletter of trying to sue his News of the World Newspaper over phone hacking in 2008. The email was from Colin Myler who appeared to undercut Murdoch's repeated testomony that he didnt know about phone hacking his employees. Murdoch said he never read the email. Murdoch exceed in a letter of lawmakers.     
      Murdoch is in a scandal over illegal eavesdropping. He had shut it down in July in the face of public phone hacking. Myler emailed Murdoch in July of 2008 about a phone hacking victim's threat to sue the newspapers. It was describing Gordan Taylor as vindictive. Myler told Murdoch to meet him and the lawyer for five minutes on July 10. Murdoch agreed three minutes in his letter to Parliament.   
     The letter he sent to Parliament om December 12 said he did not review the entire e-mail chain. The newspapers settled with Gordon Taylor for $1.2 million. Police are now investigating phone hacking, it is when people illegally eavesdrop on voicemail by enterning a PIN to access.


Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/europe/uk-phone-hacking-scandal/index.html?npt=NP1

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