Key senator urges federal investigation of Murdoch media company

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/12/us.hacking.fcpa/

Key senator urges federal investigation of Murdoch media company
By Tom Watkins and Moni Basu, CNN

(CNN) -- The phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch's media empire intensified in the United States Wednesday as a veteran senator urged the Justice Department to investigate whether one of Murdoch's U.S.-based companies violated federal anti-bribery laws.

Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking Holder to look into concerns that News Corp. -- the parent company of Fox News -- violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, known as the FCPA. The law, enacted in 1977, makes it illegal for a U.S. person or company to pay foreign officials to obtain or retain business.

News of the World, a 168-year-old British newspaper owned by Murdoch, printed its last edition Sunday in the wake of accusations that its reporters illegally eavesdropped on the phone messages of murder and terrorist victims, politicians and celebrities. Police in the United Kingdom have identified almost 4,000 potential targets of phone hacking.

There also were claims that reporters may have bribed law enforcement officers.

[LiberalAndProud]

1. That's nice, but we're talking about Eric Holder.

I won't be holding my breath. What a waste of a perfectly good office.


This for Senator Lautenberg: :applause:

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. The US Senate can hold its own investigations and hearings

They know that..... but don't

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Yep - it's holder

But it's Lautenberg asking. First - I love love love him and Bob Menendez both. I'm so proud to have them as my Senators.

Second - Lautenberg is "big money". Maybe not as big as Murdoch - but big . . . he founded ADP. ;-) When one of 'those money guys' ask for something? Fed Gov tends to hop, step, leap, jump to cater to them.

[Kingofalldems]

4. K and R all Murdoch scandal threads