Report: News Corp. hired investigators to spy on hacking victims’ lawyers

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Report: News Corp. hired investigators to spy on hacking victims’ lawyers

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/07/report-news-corp-hired-investigators-to-spy-on-hacking-victims-lawyers/

By Andrew Jones
Monday, November 7, 2011



U.S.-based media conglomorate News Corporation owned News of the World hired private investigator’s to spy on the lawyers representing the victims of their phone hacking, according to an exclusive report from The Guardian.

The clandestine surveillance of the two lawyers, Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris, and their families, was an attempt by the News of the Word to gather personal information that could be used to undermine the attorneys. Friends of the lawyers told The Guardian that they are furious by the reports and are considering legal action over the breach of privacy.

Lewis and Harris have been major thorns to News Corp., as the two represented Gordon Taylor and Max Clifford, the first two people to sue the company for hacking their phones.

The surveillance on Lewis and Harris occurred in the past 18 months, under the chairmanship of Rupert Murdoch’s son James who’s claimed he knew nothing of the companies lawbreaking.

[Trekologer]

1. They don't know when to quit, do they?

Just keep digging that hole, Rupie.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. I wrote the ACLU and asked many people to make phone calls and send emails...

about NSA eavesdropping and they did it! The calls were misdirected and emails were blocked. I also asked ACLU lawyers to do the same thing and document the time and date of each call/ email. If the online community of the NSA continues to bully Jeffersons Ghost I'll go after them with more zeal, unless some other group kills them first. I'm not adressing the young dedicated workers of the NSA intent on defending national security, of course, but their stupid supervisors better watch out.

I decided to drop the class action lawsuit. But they better not harm one hair on those people that signed the petition or they've got LOTS of big problems in their future!