FBI threaten to step in on Met's investigation into Rupert Murdoch's empire in case Scotland Yard 'drops the ball'

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116633/Phone-hacking-FBI-threaten-step-investigation-Rupert-Murdochs-empire.html

By Daily Mail Reporter
18 March 2012

The FBI has vowed to step in if the Met Police 'drop the ball' in its 
investigation into illegal activity within the Murdoch empire, it has 
been revealed.

The U.S. Bureau already has access to all the evidence handed over by 
News Corporation to Scotland Yard and the company apparently has a legal 
team of 'big guns' ready to handle inquiries from detectives.

The original Met phone hacking investigation, launched in December 2005, 
resulted in the News of the World’s royal editor Clive Goodman and 
private investigator Glenn Mulcaire being jailed for intercepting 
voicemail messages.

But no action was taken against any other reporters and the inquiry 
failed to identify hundreds of victims.

One source close to the U.S. investigation told the Independent on 
Sunday: 'The FBI made it perfectly clear that if the British police drop 
the ball on this they will pick it up and run with it.'

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