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call them what they are
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: Even the right wing National Post agrees.
:
: Concerns about News Corp's dark practices look likely to spread to the
: U.S.
:
: Araminta Wordsworth Jul 19, 2011 - 3:00 PM ET | Last Updated: Jul 19,
: 2011 4:55 PM ET
:
: Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality
: punditry from across the globe. Today: Rupert Murdoch and his companies
: are under the gun on both sides of the Atlantic.
:
: Initially, calls to probe the News of the World phone-hacking scandal came
: from outraged citizens and politicians in Britain. Hence today's grilling
: of the media mogul, his son James and chief henchperson Rebekah Brooks by
: MPs in London.
:
: But because the Murdochs' business is headquartered in New York and thus
: subject to U.S. regulations - which have far more teeth than any British
: body - they are also likely to face increased scrutiny this side of the
: Atlantic, as well as in Rupert's native Australia.
:
: The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Justice Department and the
: Securities & Exchange Commission are among those reportedly starting
: inquiries.
:
: Even if no criminal charges are filed, Murdoch could face problems over
: his TV stations. Owners are supposed to be of "good character." CNN
: provides a primer to the rapidly expanding scope of probes into the
: Murdochs' business practices.
:
: The scandal is spreading, and American authorities are probing two
: separate lines of inquiry - one into whether Murdoch journalists
: hacked the phones of September 11, 2001, victims, and one into whether
: the company broke U.S. law by bribing foreign officials. The Federal
: Bureau of Investigation is looking into the 9/11 claim, first floated
: by the Daily Mirror newspaper, a competitor to Murdoch's Sun in
: Britain. The Justice Department, meanwhile, is coming under pressure
: from American lawmakers to probe whether the company violated the
: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying British police officers for
: information. Australia - where Murdoch was born and still owns
: newspapers - is also considering an investigation. Even if the company
: is not found to have broken laws, the scandal is shaking all of News
: Corp, holdings of which spans the globe.
:
: At The New York Times, Peter J. Henning details the long list of laws that
: might have been broken.
:
: There is no clearer sign of the seriousness of the company's potential
: exposure to criminal prosecution than its hiring of Brendan V.
: Sullivan Jr. of Williams & Connolly, one of the most aggressive
: criminal defense lawyers in the country . If telephone records were
: accessed [by News of the World reporters], that could be a violation
: of the Telephone Records & Privacy Protection Act, . which prohibits
: making false or fraudulent statements to obtain another person's
: telephone records. Information has come out that News Corp paid
: officials at Scotland Yard to obtain telephone numbers of various
: individuals as part of the phone hacking program, including members of
: the royal family. The payment of a bribe to a foreign official by an
: American company - News Corp is incorporated in Delaware - can be a
: violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act. Both the Justice
: Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission can investigate
: potential violations . And federal investigations may not be the only
: ones the company faces. Many states have their own privacy laws, so do
: not be surprised if a state attorney general announces an
: investigation into News Corp's conduct if a resident was involved.
:
: Among those leading the charge for prosecution stateside is Eliot Spitzer,
: the former New York governor whose sexual shenanigans were gleefully
: exposed by New York's ferocious tabloids, one of which is owned by Rupert
: - a chip off the British block. Opining in Slate, he calls on Washington
: to go after Murdoch's company for corrupt practices and yank its
: television licence if it's found guilty.
:
: First, it is hard to believe that the misbehavior in Murdoch's media
: empire stopped at the water's edge. Given the frequency with which he
: shuttled his senior executives and editors across the various oceans -
: Pacific as well as Atlantic - it is unlikely that the shoddy ethics
: were limited to Great Britain. Much more importantly, the facts
: already pretty well established in Britain indicate violations of
: American law, in particular a law called the Foreign Corrupt Practices
: Act. The Justice Department has been going out of its way to undertake
: FCPA prosecutions and investigations in recent years, and the News
: Corp case presents a pretty simple test for Attorney General Eric
: Holder: If the department fails to open an immediate investigation
: into News Corp.'s violations of the FCPA, there will have been a major
: breach of enforcement at Justice. Having failed to pursue Wall Street
: with any apparent vigor, this is an opportunity for the Justice
: Department to show it can flex its muscles at the right moment.
:
: At the AllGov website, Noel Brinkerhoff wonders what's behind News Corp's
: cozying up to a powerful U.S. business group.
:
: The Center for American Progress called attention to a $1-million
: donation last summer from News Corp to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
: which almost immediately began work to amend the Foreign Corrupt
: Practices Act (FCPA). Lobbyists say the law is hurting American
: business competitiveness and needs to be changed. FCPA bars companies
: with U.S. ties from bribing foreign officials to get or retain
: business. News Corp, which faces allegations of having bribed British
: police, was originally incorporated in South Australia, but
: re-incorporated in Delaware in 2004. The center also began circulating
: a petition demanding that the Department of Justice and the Securities
: & Exchange Commission investigate Murdoch's company to determine if
: officials violated the FCPA. Three Democratic U.S. senators echoed the
: center's call by requesting that Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.
: conduct a probe of News Corp.
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