Sen Jay Rockefeller-Keen To Amass Evidence-Visits UK to gather News Corp hacking & bribery evidence
The Daily Telegraph can disclose that Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the influential Senate Commerce Committee, visited News Corp’s London headquarters earlier this year in preparation for a potential Senate investigation.
The Senator met with News Corp’s most senior lawyers, Lord Grabiner and John Turnbull, to discuss allegations that staff at News Corp’s British newspaper arm, News UK, routinely intercepted voicemails and paid officials for information. It is thought that the Senator may have dispatched representatives to meet News Corp staff on at least two further occasions.
The Senate committee is unwilling to launch a full-scale investigation into the alleged wrongdoing until after a series of criminal trials of former News Corp staff, due to get under way next month. However, Senator Rockefeller is understood to be keen to amass as much evidence as possible ahead of the trials, so that the Committee is in a position to launch a potential investigation once the criminal proceedings have finished.
more:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/10316390/US-Senator-flew-to-UK-to-gather-News-Corp-hacking-and-bribery-evidence.html
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