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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-25-11 06:11 AM
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News Corp's James Murdoch under pressure over hacking testimony
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Edited on Mon Jul-25-11 07:02 AM by Turborama
Source: Reuters

By Tim Castle – Sun Jul 24, 10:47 pm ET

LONDON (Reuters) – News Corp executive James Murdoch was under pressure on Monday over his handling of a phone-hacking scandal that has hit the Murdoch family's media empire and could jeopardize his own position at the company.

British police are considering a request from opposition Labor politician Tom Watson to investigate claims the 38-year-old son of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch gave "mistaken" testimony to a high profile hearing in parliament last week.

Separately Labor lawmaker Chris Bryant has written to News Corp's independent directors calling on them to suspend both James and his 80-year-old father for failing to exercise proper corporate control.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-newscorptre76h07p-20110725,0,7664268.story



I've just changed the link to the Chicago Tribune one because apparently this Reuters link wasn't working for some...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/newscorp-idUSL6E7IO0HT20110725axJWyDQ&usg=AFQjCNFVg7WVVCUX6rqUS33wryvo0VF3Cg

FWIW The Chicago Tribune time stamp for the article is: 6:12 a.m. CDT, July 25, 2011
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