James Murdoch knew of wider phone hacking, ex-colleagues say

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-britain-murdoch-20110907,0,1114251.story

By Henry Chu
Los Angeles Times
September 6, 2011

London -- Media executive James Murdoch knew of a damaging piece of 
evidence three years ago that phone hacking was practiced by more than 
one reporter at the News of the World tabloid, despite his statements to 
the contrary, two of his former colleagues said Tuesday.

The assertion by Colin Myler, the paper's last editor, and Tom Crone, 
its head in-house lawyer, boosted the likelihood that Murdoch will be 
called to appear again before Parliament to explain the discrepancy. 
Both he and his father, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, gave evidence to 
lawmakers in July after the phone-hacking scandal broke wide open and 
threw their massive News Corp. empire into turmoil.

Myler and Crone, who were summoned to reappear before Parliament 
Tuesday, said they talked to James Murdoch briefly in 2008 about an 
e-mail that seemed to implicate the News of the World's chief reporter 
in the tapping of cell phones, an illegal tactic for which a colleague, 
Clive Goodman, had already been convicted and jailed.

The e-mail surfaced in a lawsuit brought by a former soccer star against 
the News of the World, which he accused of intercepting his voice mail 
messages. Crone told lawmakers the e-mail persuaded him it would be 
better to settle the case rather than fight it.

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