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Subscribe to RSSActor Hugh Grant took a starring role in a London courtroom when he testified at a public hearing about alleged phone hacking by British tabloids. NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports.
Criminal charges against journalists and a police officer are being considered by British prosecutors after an investigation into alleged phone hacking by reporters at tabloid newspapers, it was reported Wednesday.
The Crown Prosecution Service said police had handed it files on four cases, which include allegations that a reporter paid a police officer for information and that another attempted to pervert the course of justice, BBC News reported.
The cases also include allegations of misconduct in a public office, witness intimidation and harassment.
Four journalists, one police officer and six others are reportedly involved. They have not been named and it is not clear if any are employees of the British subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
The BBC said prosecutors had made a statement saying they would not disclose the identities of those involved, or give any estimate on when they might reach decisions in the cases.
Phone hacking lawsuits to be filed in US courts
On Friday it emerged that lawsuits over alleged phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation are to be filed in U.S. courts for the first time.
Mark Lewis, the lawyer who has been at the forefront of efforts to expose phone hacking at newspapers, expects to file civil lawsuits on behalf of three alleged victims.
Timeline: Key developments in phone hacking scandal
Earlier this year, former News Corp chief executive and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks, a close friend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, were arrested as part of the hacking investigation. They were later released.
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If corporations are people too. Then they need to start putting them in jail for crimes that they do. Not the scapegoats either. The owners and managers also.
I have to agree with you. The only way to stop all of the crimes that some corporations do is to jail the CEO's, and a huge hefty fine on him/her. They are people, according to the Supreme Court, and since everyone always blames the President, no matter which party, when some thing goes wrong, well, what is the difference? The CEO runs the corporations, he more or less sets the policies, and is responsible. Jail the miseralable ones in charge.
We need privacy guarantees in the constitution.
agree with all but in this case - curiosity should choke from the 'kitten' right up to the 'big cat'...
agree with all but in this case curiosity should choke from 'kitten' right up to the 'big cat'...and it wouldn't hurt if the some people learned to be a little less nosy...