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Edit: Also, £500 is surely a huge underestimate of any sum paid for those pictures, no?
I imagine that's why the quote was careful to give a minimum amount of £500 which of course doesn't bar the actual amount from hitting the couple of grand it probably actually was
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I'm hearing rumors that Leveson will publish Monday. Anyone heard anything similar?
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Nov 21, 2012 17:33
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So this isn't going to be free on the website? I was hoping to load it onto my kindle and read it on the way to work.
There'll be a PDF, HTML and (knowing TSO) an XML version published probably at the same time. That money is for the published bound copy. Hilariously you buy any committee report for pretty much the same amount. Doubt there is much of a demand for that though...
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Neil Wallis @neilwallis1
After 21 months of hell for my family, CPS have just told my solicitors that there will be NO prosecution of me re my phone-hacking arrest
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Feb 22, 2013 12:06
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The leveson talks have collapsed apparently
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Mar 14, 2013 12:23
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Might there be a vote of no confidence as a follow-on, if the LibDems and Labour successfully make common cause?
I really doubt it - neither party wants to force an election right now I should imagine
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Mar 14, 2013 19:57
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Is there any chance that Putnam will withdraw his amendment to the Defamation Bill now? It's really threatening to sink the whole bill
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I've completely lost track - how many charges has Elveden yielded now?
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Jun 18, 2013 12:56
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I also liked this exchange from yesterday's Graun:
quote:The jury was also shown two email exchanges between the news editor, Ian Edmondson, and the royal editor, Clive Goodman. In one, Goodman asked if Edmondson had any information from the police. An apparantly confused Edmondson replied with a single question mark. Goodman then wrote: "Apols – cross purposes. Thought you were spinning some dark arts on this."
In another exchange, Edmondson asked Goodman if he had any confirmation of a royal story the reporter was working on. The newspaper's then royal editor replied: "The tale comes from William himself."
Responding, Edmondson wrote: "?" to which Goodman replied: "Not on email."
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Congrats on getting funded BM
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http://unfashionista.com/
Was there any point in this thread where these accusations by Louise mensh were discussed?
I haven't seen it discussed anywhere else which is pretty odd.
Christ, has Mensch's site always looked so TimeCube-esque? I thought at one point it was genuinely trying to be some sort of fashion site
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Welp guess it was a long shot
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/02/news-corp-phone-hacking-us
quote:News Corp won't be prosecuted in US in relation to phone hacking
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation will not face any charges in the US in relation to phone hacking and payments to public officials by News of the World journalists in the UK, the company said.
“News Corporation was notified by the United States Department of Justice that it has completed its investigation of voicemail interception and payments to public officials in London and is declining to prosecute the company or 21st Century Fox,” the company said in a regulatory filing.
The company had faced the threat of an investigation under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which bans US companies from attempting to bribe foreign officials.
Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox, Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.”
It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
The Department of Justice (DoJ) said: “Based upon the information known to the Justice Department at this time, it has closed its investigation into News Corp regarding possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act concerning bribes allegedly paid for news leads. If additional information or evidence should be made available in the future, the Department reserves the right to reopen the inquiry.”
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the US regulator, declined to comment.
Experts had said it was unlikely that News Corp would face a US investigation in direct relation to phone hacking, unless it could be proved that News Corp employees hacked people’s phones while they were in the US. The actor Jude Law has claimed that his phone, and that of his assistant, were hacked shortly after arriving at New York’s JFK airport. Their mobile telephones were operating on US networks, meaning that regardless of where the alleged hacker was based, US law could apply.
However, legal experts said it was possible that US authorities could investigate News Corp over News of the World journalists’ alleged payments to police and other officials as this would breach the strict FCPA rules design to stamp out bad behaviour by US companies abroad.
Norman Siegel, the US attorney for a group of relatives of September 11 victims who suspected they may have been hacked, said they had been blindsided by Monday’s announcement.
“The attorney general promised my clients that before the department published any statement, they would meet with us, and explain what their inquiry had found and what their conclusions were,” Siegel said. “So this is very disappointing that they did not fulfil their promise. I will be calling the attorney general to request that meeting.”
Murdoch closed the News of the World in 2011 after it was revealed that reporters from the paper had hacked into the voicemails of Milly Dowler, a missing schoolgirl who had been murdered. Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
The decision not to prosecute News Corp comes seven months after the marathon hacking trial which saw Rebekah Brooks, the company’s former chief executive of its British publishing operation News International, cleared of both hacking and charges that she approved payments to public officials.
Andy Coulson, Brooks’ former deputy editor at the News of the World, along with four newsdesk executives, Greg Miskiw, Neville Thurlbeck, James Weatherup and Ian Edmondson, were either found guilty or pleaded guilty to voicemail interception.
A sixth former News of the World employee, reporter Dan Evans, also pleaded guilty to hacking including the interception of voicemails left by actor Sienna Miller on the phone of James Bond star Daniel Craig.
Since September, 11 journalists employed or formerly employed by News of the World and the Sun have been tried in relation to allegations of payments to public officials and to handling stolen mobile phones handed into the paper.
Four former or current Sun journalists have been found not guilty on charges relating to payments. Five Sun journalists face retrial in relation to similar charges after juries could not reach a verdict.
One Sun journalist has been found guilty in relation to a mobile phone while one former Sun journalist has been found not guilty to a similar charge.
A further four Sun journalists are currently on trial at the Old Bailey in London charged with conspiring to cause misconduct in public office in relation to alleged unlawful payments to public officials for stories.
At the height of the investigation into alleged malpractice at the News of the World, influential Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller, said the hacking scandal “raises questions about whether the company has broken US law”.
Last year, the DOJ and SEChanded out several large fines in relation to FCPA investigations including $772m to French industrial giant Alstom, $135m to Avon and $108m to Hewlett-Packard.
Murdoch split his newspaper operations from his Fox entertainment empire last year.
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Coulson has had the charges dismissed
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/03/andy-coulson-cleared-of-perjury-in-scottish-court
quote:David Cameron’s former director of communications Andy Coulson has been cleared of lying in court after a Scottish judge threw out charges of alleged perjury.
Lord Burns told Coulson at the high court in Edinburgh he had been formally acquitted of lying under oath about his knowledge of phone hacking at the News of the World while he was the paper’s editor.
The judge’s dramatic decision came following five days of legal debate and deliberations after Coulson’s defence advocate Murdo MacLeod QC successfully argued that Scottish prosecutors had misunderstood the Scottish law on perjury.
Burns had delivered his ruling on Monday morning with the jury absent from court but then agreed to a Crown request for time to consider an appeal. He told Coulson, 47, from Preston in Kent, on Monday that, pending the appeal: “I must suspend the acquittal that I have just given.”
Despite earlier suggestions the prosecution was planning to lodge an urgent appeal on Wednesday, the Crown Office decided late on Tuesday not to contest Burns’s decision.
Burns agreed with MacLeod’s case that Coulson’s alleged lies under oath, when he appeared as a witness during the trial for perjury of former Scottish Socialist party leader Tommy Sheridan in 2010, were not material to the main case against Sheridan at that trial. That therefore failed to meet the required definition of perjury.
The jury, which was sent home a week ago, heard three senior NoW executives accuse Coulson of knowing about hacking and having direct knowledge of the £104,000-a-year contract awarded to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator convicted in 2007 of helping hack royal family mobile phones for the then NoW royal editor, Clive Goodman.
Coulson has always denied knowing phone hacking was rife at the NoW and said that he only knew of one specific incident of phone hacking, involving David Blunkett.
Burns’s ruling, which came after only six days of evidence in a trial which was due to last for four weeks, ends a four-year ordeal for Coulson that began soon after he resigned as head of communications at No 10 in January 2011, less than a month after Sheridan’s conviction for perjury. Coulson will now be free to try to revive his career as there are no outstanding charges against him either in England or Scotland.
The jury in Edinburgh was not told that Coulson had already served seven months in jail, some of it in high-security prison Belmarsh, after being found guilty at the Old Bailey last year of being involved in a conspiracy to hack phones when he was editor of the News of the World.
Coulson’s acquittal, which comes three years after he was arrested by Scottish detectives at his London home, is a severe blow to Police Scotland and senior prosecutors in Edinburgh.
Police launched the Operation Rubicon investigation into alleged hacking, bugging and Data Protection Act breaches by journalists in July 2011 after the NoW was closed by Rupert Murdoch.
In March, after spending nearly £1m on police salaries under Operation Rubicon, investigating the cases involving 23 hacking victims in Scotland, Police Scotland confirmed that four people had been charged and reported to prosecutors. All four of them have now been cleared, with Coulson the only suspect to stand trial.
The Crown Office told the Guardian on Tuesday evening that prosecutors had dropped charges of perjury against Bob Bird, former editor of the News of the World’s Scotland edition, and charges of perverting the course of justice and other offences against Doug Wight, a news executive with the NoW in Glasgow.
On 1 May, the Crown Office disclosed it was no longer taking action against Gill Smith, a news editor at the Scottish Sun, who had been charged with offences in 2000 and 2001 under Operation Rubicon.
Sheridan was prosecuted in 2010 for lying in a defamation case he pursued against the News of the World after it reported he had visited a swingers’ club in Manchester.
He was found guilty of lying in that case and sent to jail. However, during the trial Sheridan, who conducted his own defence, called Coulson as a defence witness and quizzed him about his knowledge of hacking. Coulson had denied he was aware of a culture of hacking when he was at the helm and it was this that triggered this prosecution.
MacLeod successfully argued that the evidence given by Coulson could not have caused Sheridan to have been acquitted in 2010. “With the greatest respect to the advocate depute [the Crown prosecutor] – and I mean no criticism of him – he is trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” MacLeod told the court.
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welp
quote:There is to be no further action taken against journalists accused of phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service has said after finding insufficient evidence to bring corporate charges against News UK and criminal cases against 10 Mirror employees.
The CPS announced the conclusion of police operations Weeting and Golding on Friday, following its review of evidence amassed in the controversial investigation of journalists acccused of hacking at newspapers for the two media companies.
“After a thorough analysis, we have decided there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of a conviction and therefore no further action will be taken in any of these cases,” said Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions at the CPS.
“There has been considerable public concern about phone hacking and invasion of privacy. Over the past three years, we have brought 12 prosecutions and secured nine convictions for these serious offences. These decisions bring the CPS’s involvement in current investigations into phone hacking to a close.”
The Metropolitan police have worked for several years on the two operations, looking into alleged phone hacking at Trinity Mirror and News UK, at significant public cost.
Writing on Twitter, the former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, who was interviewed under caution twice, said: “I’ve today been informed by CPS that no further action will be taken against me re: Met Police phone hacking investigation.
“As I’ve said since the investigation began four years ago, I’ve never hacked a phone and nor have I ever told anybody to hack a phone. Thanks to all my family & friends, and kind people on here, for all their support. It was greatly appreciated.”
The CPS has been investigating allegations of phone hacking at Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, for the last three years.
Those arrested during the investigation included former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver, who was seven months pregnant at the time, former Sunday People editor James Scott, ex-deputy Sunday People editor Nick Buckley, and former People editor Mark Thomas.
Police also questioned the former Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace under caution as part of Operation Weeting. He was deputy editor of the Sunday Mirror between 2003 and 2004, before becoming editor of the Daily Mirror until 2012.
The investigation resulted in no charges after a review of “a number of strands of evidence”, the CPS said, adding that “scrutiny of suspicious call data” had been a significant deciding factor.
“The call data showed a regular pattern of two calls being placed to the same number (double tapping) and also a large number of calls placed to voicemail platform numbers,” their statement said. “However, it is not possible to prove the fact that the ‘double taps’ and calls to voicemail platform numbers are definitely instances of phone hacking.
“In addition, it was common practice at Mirror Group Newspapers for journalists to use one another’s telephones, and so it is not possible to determine which individuals were responsible for making specific calls.”
Operation Weeting, the investigation into corporate liability for phone hacking at News UK, the publisher of the Times and the Sun newspapers, resulted in a dossier of evidence being passed to the CPS in July this year.
“Potential charges for phone hacking and perverting the course of justice were considered,” the service said. “After thorough analysis of the evidence, it has been decided that no further action will be taken for either charge.”
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