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While Murdoch's News Corporation is settling phone hacking claims in the UK, there's evidence that News Corporation's UK subsidiaries might have have hacked Jude Law's phone while he was in the United States.
The evidence suggests that the phone hacking scandal goes all the way to the highest levels of News Corporation, with top execs trying to destroy evidence. There is the very real possibility of an investigation by United States authorities and Federal criminal charges.
Stay tuned!
The News of the World allegedly hacked into the mobile phones of Jude Law and his personal assistant while they were in New York, opening the way for News International to be prosecuted in the United States.
In the first specific example of a case of hacking on US soil, it has emerged that the actor and his assistant, Ben Jackson, were allegedly targeted shortly after arriving at New York's JFK airport.
Their mobile telephones were operating on American networks, meaning that regardless of where the alleged hacker was based, American law would apply.
The evidence suggests that the phone hacking scandal goes all the way to the highest levels of News Corporation, with top execs trying to destroy evidence. There is the very real possibility of an investigation by United States authorities and Federal criminal charges.
Stay tuned!
