{"id":10055,"date":"2013-07-03T18:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T01:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2013-07-03T21:32:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T04:32:03","slug":"rupert-murdoch-was-secretly-recorded-admitting-violations-of-american-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10055","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Murdoch Was Secretly Recorded Admitting Violations Of American Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Murdochalypse\"A recording of a board meeting of Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in Britain has surfaced and it contains some rather damning evidence of Murdoch’s knowledge of illegal activity, including possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act<\/a> (FCPA) in the United States. Murdoch and his staff were discussing the fallout from the scandal wherein Murdoch’s newspapers were discovered to have been hacking into the phones, computers and email of politicians, royals, celebrities, and private citizens, including a kidnapped schoolgirl who was later found to have been murdered.<\/p>\n

The tape was disclosed by a British investigative news service and broadcast on the UK’s Channel4. The transcript, published in part<\/a> by the Columbia Journalism Review, revealed Murdoch admitting that he had prior knowledge of bribes paid to police officials, which he previously testified before parliament that he knew nothing about.<\/p>\n

Murdoch:<\/strong> We’re talking about payments for news tips from cops: that’s been going on a hundred years, absolutely. You didn’t instigate it.<\/p>\n

I remember when I first bought the News of the World, the first day I went to the office… and there was a big wall-safe… And I said, \u201cWhat\u2019s that for?\u201d<\/em> And they said, \u201cWe keep some cash in there.\u201d<\/em> And I said, \u201cWhat for?\u201d<\/em> They said, \u201cWell, sometimes the editor needs some on a Saturday night for powerful friends. And sometimes the chairman [the late Sir William Carr] is doing badly at the tables, (laughter) and he helps himself…\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a certain irony in Murdoch getting caught admitting to criminally eavesdropping on others by a secret recording made, most likely, by one of his own criminal reporters. But now that this has come out, Murdoch needs to be held accountable for his crimes in England and here in the U.S. The FCPA prohibits exactly the sort of bribery of government officials that Murdoch confesses to in this recording. And that may be why Murdoch once gave a million dollars<\/a> to a lobbying group that was attempting to have the FCPA altered in a manner that would benefit Murdoch.<\/p>\n

It is time for the Department of Justice to investigate Murdoch and bring charges against him if the evidence supports it. The FCC should also look into whether Murdoch still satisfies its criteria for owning a media enterprise. America must stop coddling its wealthy industrialists when there is reason to believe that they have broken the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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