News Corp 'hacked phones on US soil' – so were these three the intended targets?

[cal04]

Lawyer who represented News of the World victims in Britain turns sights on paper's parent company
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/news-corp-hacked-phones-on-us-soil--so-were-these-three-the-intended-targets-7637600.html

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is facing new hacking battles in the United States. The British lawyer who helped expose the criminal culture inside the News of the World has revealed plans to file at least three separate lawsuits on behalf of clients who claim their phones were hacked while they were on US soil.

Lawyers in California and New York are being lined up by Mark Lewis – who represented the parents of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler – in three individual cases expected to be filed against News Corp in the next few weeks.

In an interview with an American news website, Mr Lewis also revealed that his US legal targets includes the Murdoch empire's corporate arm, with a further suit centred on what he claimed were "the dirty tricks that might have been used in order to further the commercial aims for News Corporation".

Although no specifics have been given for what is claimed will be three high-profile cases, there is already speculation that Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell, the former England football captain David Beckham, and an associate of the leading actor Jude Law, may be have been potential victims hacked in the US.

News International braced as lawyer brings phone-hacking scandal to US
Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/11/news-international-lawyer-phone-hacking

Lawyer's visit brings UK scandal to Rupert Murdoch's front door and raises prospect of lawsuits involving US legal system

Mark Lewis, the lawyer who has been at the forefront of efforts to expose the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, is poised to bring the battle for legal redress across the Atlantic and to the doorstep of Rupert Murdoch's media empire.

Lewis will arrive in the US on Saturday and next week will begin legal discussions in New York, just a stone's throw away from News Corporation's global headquarters on Sixth Avenue. His arrival constitutes a major escalation in the legal ramifications of the hacking scandal for Murdoch, who has tried desperately to keep it away from the American core of his multi-billion-dollar media holdings.

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Misanthrope Sycophant Monsters

The conscience of information experts.

[Spazito]

2. That's good news!

The Murdoch gang of thugs have worked VERY hard to try and limit the fallout from their illegal activities to what happened in Britain and, there is NO doubt, they were doing the same in the U.S..

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[al_liberal]

4. It'll be sold as a witch hunt.

By the r's in DC and the rest of the MSM. Then everything will be quickly swept under the rug. Fux has nothing to worry about.

[KeepItReal]

5. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act time yet?

This company based in the USA committed crimes like hacking and public official bribery.

How much more proof is needed?

[Quantess]

6. Here's to hoping it takes down his entire shitty FOX empire.

[OnyxCollie]

7. K&R. nt

[leveymg]

8. So, we're all supposed to believe this is all just about celebrity gossip?

[Citizen Worker]

9. I've speculated for several months that News Corpse was involved with hacking into Elliot Spitzer's

cell phone and it appears that the investigation is getting closer.

[Shankapotomus]

10. K&R (nt)