Former Murdoch Paper Executives To Be Charged With Bribery

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Rebekah Brooks and Andy Caulson, two former top executives of Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World in Britain, will be charged with bribing public officials, the New York Times reports Tuesday. 

In a dramatic new turn in the scandals swirling around Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper outpost, prosecutors said on Tuesday that two former top executives — Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks — will be charged with making corrupt payments to public officials along with an an array of previous accusations. …

 

The Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday that Mr. Coulson and Ms. Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, the British newspaper subsidiary of Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation, were among five people who should be charged as part of a police inquiry called Operation Elveden. The investigation ran in parallel with other investigations related to a phone hacking scandal that led to the closing of The News of the World.

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