Murdoch's News Corp facing growing legal threat in US

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Lawyer Mark Lewis reveals at press conference he has taken on fourth case of alleged phone hacking on American soil
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/19/murdoch-news-corp-lawyers-us

Rupert Murdoch faces a growing legal challenge in the heart of his global media empire as lawyers representing alleged victims of phone hacking on US soil begin gathering evidence ahead of possible court action.

Mark Lewis, the English lawyer who has been a driving force behind phone-hacking revelations in the UK, and his American legal partner Norman Siegel, have revealed that they have been approached by at least 10 people bearing complaints relating to Murdoch's News Corporation

The complaints relate largely to alleged hacking by News of the World journalists into phones in the US, but also extend to other News Corp holdings including Fox News.

Lewis said that he had been contacted by a number of people since he arrived in the US last weekend "raising issues against other (News Corp) titles or Fox News, not necessarily about hacking but about other untoward dark arts to obtain information that should be private." He added that the new complaints were unproven allegations.

Hacking scandal: the net tightens on the Murdochs
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-scandal-the-net-tightens-on-the-murdochs-7661722.html
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On a tumultuous day for the media mogul, the lawyer who brought the first damages claims against the News of the World in Britain said he had uncovered new allegations of the use of "dark arts" by News Corp in America and was ready to file at least three phone-hacking lawsuits in the company's backyard.

The sense of a legal net tightening around Mr Murdoch and News Corp was heightened by the announcement that he and his son James will testify separately next week before the Leveson Inquiry into press standards during three days of what is likely to be uncomfortable scrutiny of alleged widespread criminality in their British tabloid newspapers.

Phone Hacking Charges May Be Brought Against News Corp. In U.S.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/19/phone-hacking-news-corp-rupert-murdoch_n_1438530.html

[FarPoint]

1. If this has legs on US soil ...

Will it neuter Foxx News? I'm so hopeful.

[anti-alec]

2. Needs a major fire sale for all Fox equipment

As in $0.00001 to the dollar.

Sell off all your assets and GTFO here, Murdoch, and go back to Australia and stay there and ruin that country instead of ours and the world's!

[orpupilofnature57]

3. +1

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Hell to the yah.

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, cal.

[Spazito]

6. Murdoch's worst fears coming true...

His hope was to keep the scandal limited to the U.K. because the damage that will be done to his empire once proof of their illegal actions in the U.S. is given will be potentially massive.

There is NO doubt in my mind that what they were doing in the U.K. they were also doing in the U.S.

[fascisthunter]

7. goin' down....

....hey right wingoze? Your weird Goebbel-like tactic of owning the media is coming back to bite you and guess what else? You proved that when we don't regulate the media, sick criminals bastards such as yourselves will try to do what you have proven to do, use it for pure political propaganda in a way only Goebbels would be proud!

[freshwest]

8. I don't see it happening. Isn't Murdoch working with Gates to turn schools into charters?

He's not worried about criminal prosecution.

Remember the guy that recorded Palin or some other creature in 2008 who got jail time?

But Murdoch lives in the Middle East, doesn't he, and isn't he an Australian citizen?

This might cause Newscorp to lose money, which would feel good.