London Police Make 16th Arrest in News Corp. Phone-Hacking Investigation

[alp227]

Source: Bloomberg

London police investigating phone hacking at News Corp. (NWSA)’s defunct News of the World tabloid said they arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voice-mail messages.

The unidentified man is in custody at a north London police station after being arrested at his home, according to an e-mailed statement. He is the 16th person arrested since the Metropolitan Police renewed a probe of the newspaper in January.

Four former executives at News Corp.’s U.K. unit testified yesterday before Parliament, including two men who challenged testimony given to lawmakers in July by James Murdoch, the company’s deputy chief operating officer, about details surrounding his knowledge of the scandal.

The police investigation, and revelations that the News of the World hacked the voice mail of a murdered school girl, led to News Corp.’s decision to close the tabloid and scrap a planned bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc. (BSY) Authorities are also probing whether police officers were paid for news and whether journalists hacked computers for stories.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/london-police-make-16th-arrest-in-news-corp-phone-hacking-probe.html

[tblue]

1. I'd sure love to know who that is.

They're arresting mostly low-hanging fruit, but I hope they keep moving up the chain of command. No way the Murdochs didn't know the mo of their business.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Phone hacking: Police bail sports writer Raoul Simons

The BBC understands he is sports journalist Raoul Simons who used to work at London's Evening Standard before moving to the Times in 2009.

The man was bailed on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept voicemails.

Meanwhile, Guardian reporter Amelia Hill has been questioned under caution over alleged police leaks surrounding the hacking inquiry, the paper said.

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It is understood he has not been involved in any inappropriate behaviour while at the Times.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14816827

Looks like whatever it was occurred while he was at the Evening Standard. :shrug: At that time the Standard was owned by the same group as the Daily Mail - which makes this even funnier.

The Guardian got dragged into this , quite rightly so , when they published the name of one of the earlier arrests before the police had released the name. The timing of events that day indicated the Guardian was set up to expose them. Since then their scoops on this subject, which they've managed since February , have ground to halt.

[Auntie Bush]

3. So they can't scoop other journalists now that they can't intercept emails.

Poor things!

[dipsydoodle]

6. I doubt that The Guardian

were doing that. Seems more like they simply had one of the police officers involved in the investigation straightened out. Won't know exactly what's what until October'ish when the intention is that all charges involved in the "hacking scandal" are brought at one and the same time.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick and Rec for all the Fox fans stopping in

The question is: What's been going on over here?

[fascisthunter]

5. FOX news has been bringing down our government

they are also guilty of stochastic terrorism... I have no doubt at all that they have spied on political enemies of the right wing. Time to call them out as seditious and traitorous.