Press Release: FBI And SEC Urged To Investigate Murdoch's News Corp Under Foreign Corrupt Practices

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Source: ProtectOurElections.Org

The government accountability group ProtectOurElections.org is urging the FBI and the SEC to launch parallel criminal and civil investigations into Rupert Murdoch's media empire in the United States for possible prosecution under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom.

The umbrella group, representing grassroots activists across the country, sent a letter today to both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Security and Exchange Commission asserting that the scandal overseas was in and of itself evidence of violation of the Act, because the company is headquartered in the United States, and urged both agencies to seek warrants to search the company's New York offices. It also pointed to evidence that phone hacking by News Corp journalists and editors may have spread across the Atlantic.

The letter, written by ProtectOurElections.org lawyer Kevin Zeese, described the extent of the phone hacking as "staggering" and pointed to recent revelations and admissions by News Corp executives that its employees have engaged in "widespread obstruction of justice, bribery and destruction of evidence." According to one British news report today, a private investigator in New York was approached by the company for help in tracking down the phone records of 9/11 victims so their voice mails could be illegally accessed.

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"It is clear that News Corp has violated the Act on an industrial scale," the letter said. "Rupert Murdoch moved to the US and became an American citizen in 1985 in order to take advantage of our laws yet his company under his leadership has blatantly violated American law by bribing foreign officials in order to increase revenues.”

Read more: http://protectourelections.org/index.php?q=node/402

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Excellent.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Couldn't have said it better myself. nt

[Kingofalldems]

3. Special Prosecutor needed-- subpoena all Fox records

[freshwest]

4. Please, please remove this cancer who's been waging war on the world's consciousness!

[Moostache]

5. No...do NOT remove him ...PROSECUTE HIM!!!

I do not want to see Fox closed and made a martyr of the right wing for all time...I want to see Murdouch and his minions like Ailes and other yes-men with prisoner ID #'s, felony records and the shame that comes with NEVER again being allowed to influence or even vote in another election.

Simply removing them from circulation is not enough for me...I want my pound of flesh first, then send them off to prison or exile or repatriate him back to the former prison colony that shat him onto the world stage in the first place.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

6. Obama doesn't have what it takes to hold corporate criminals accountable.

Murdoch will walk in the US. Probably in the UK as well, but the Brits may still have some vestigal part of government that still functions, so there's a chance he's done over there.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

7. He's done in the UK for the foreseeable future even if the government does nothing

His advertisers are bailing like rats off a sinking ship. For once the free market is actually going to do what the right wing claims it does.

[AndyTiedye]

8. K/R