US Department of Justice drops phone-hacking investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp

‘The US Department of Justice has decided not to prosecute Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp or its sister firm Twenty-First Century Fox after completing a probe into phone hacking and the bribing of public officials in the UK.

Officials had launched the inquiry following revelations in 2011 that reporters working for British tabloids The Sun and the now defunct News of the World had been hacking into the mobile phone voicemails of celebrities and members of the public.’

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