Les Hinton faces US calls for Dow Jones inquiry over phone hacking

Source: UK Guardian

Two US senators have turned up the heat on Les Hinton, the former chief executive of Dow Jones who resigned last week, calling on the panel that oversees the company's editorial integrity to investigate his role in the scandal.

Barbara Boxer of California and John Rockefeller of West Virginia have written to the special committee of Dow Jones and company demanding that they set up an inquiry into whether senior Dow Jones executives, Hinton especially, had any knowledge or role of alleged criminal activity at News Corporation.

They wrote: "Allegations of illegal phone hacking and bribery in the UK at properties owned by News Corporation, a US-based company, have outraged people around the world. The American people need to be reassured that this kind of misconduct has not occurred in the US and that senior executives at News Corporation properties in our country were not aware of, or complicit in, any wrongdoing."

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Hinton resigned as head of Dow Jones last Friday, becoming the most senior member of Murdoch's inner circle to fall foul of the billowing phone-hacking scandal. He was chairman of News International, the UK newspaper arm, at a time that illegality took place, though he has denied any knowledge of it.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/20/les-hinton-dow-jones-senators

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Also notable from this article is that Mr. Hinton stated to Parliament on two occasions that the phone hacking was confined to the actions of a single journalist.


Not credible, Mr. Hinton.

the money to run large corporations, but they have no idea what is going on.
Perhaps they do not really deserve the power the perks the big money and they should just take a broom and sweep the floor because that is all they seem good for if they could even handle that job

into the allegations.

Here, a couple of Congresspeople ask Wall Street to do an internal investigation.

As an American citizen, I can't say that having a private corporation doing an in-house investigation 'reassures' me that the US arm of News Corp is free of 'misconduct'. Seems more like the fox guarding the hen-house - but not surprising that Congress doesn't want this particular issue getting too close to their closet.




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Thanks for the thread, seafan.