Murdoch papers paid £1m to gag phone-hacking victims

[Swede]

The payments secured secrecy over out-of-court settlements in three cases that threatened to expose evidence of Murdoch journalists using private investigators who illegally hacked into the mobile phone messages of numerous public ­figures to gain unlawful access to confidential personal data, including tax records, social security files, bank statements and itemised phone bills. Cabinet ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars were all targets of the private investigators.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. The evil spawn that is Rupert Murdoch

needs a cozy little cell in Attica.