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U.S. Investigation of News Corp. Is Said to Expand From Hacking to Bribery

By Greg Farrell, David Glovin and Tom Schoenberg - Sep 21, 2011 3:03 AM CT


News Corp. (NWSA), already facing three police inquiries in the U.K. as well as a Parliamentary probe of phone hacking by its employees, now faces an investigation into three matters on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

U.S. prosecutors are examining whether employees of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. tried to access the voicemails of 9-11 victims, broke antitrust or related laws and, according to a person familiar with the probe, bribed U.K. police for information.

The third line of inquiry was disclosed yesterday with news of a U.S. letter to the company requesting information on any bribes paid by its News of the World unit, said the person, who declined to be identified because the matter isn’t public. The letter is part of a Justice Department effort to determine whether News Corp. violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, the person said.

“In any investigation you try to be as thorough as possible,” said Anthony Barkow, executive director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University School of Law and a former federal prosecutor. “They would try to uncover a pattern.”


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2011-09-21/u-s-investigation-of-news-corp-said-to-expand-from-hacking-to-bribery.html