U.S. Looked at Wall Street Journal Over Claims of Bribery

[alp227]

Source: NYT

The United States government’s inquiry into News Corporation broadened last year when the Justice Department investigated claims that employees in the China news bureau of The Wall Street Journal bribed local officials with gifts in exchange for information.

The investigation, which was first reported on Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, coincides with a broader search the government is conducting into The Journal's owner over a phone-hacking scandal that has plagued the company since 2011.

Paula Keve, a spokeswoman for The Wall Street Journal, said the paper had ordered its own investigation, which did not find any support for the claims made about its employees in China.

"After a thorough review of our operations in China conducted by outside lawyers and auditors, we have not found any evidence of impropriety at Dow Jones," Ms. Keve said. "Nor has anyone taken issue with our findings."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/business/media/us-looked-at-bribery-claims-involving-wall-street-journal.html

[alfredo]

1. So they investigated their own paper and found no evidence of impropriety.

Now isn't that special.

[savannah43]

3. One of Murdock's enterprises involved in wrong-doing?

I am weak with surprise!