LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp's James Murdoch was "kept in the dark" about the scale of phone hacking at the News of the World by his subordinates who tried to manage the problem, the newspaper's former chief reporter said on Monday.
James Murdoch angrily rejected claims Thursday that he was like a "mafia boss" and denied misleading MPs about the extent of his knowledge of phone-hacking at the News of the World.
LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - James Murdoch blamed other senior News Corp executives on Thursday for not telling him more about potential evidence of widespread phone-hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid that he oversaw.
LONDON — Aides to Rupert Murdoch were warned as far back as 2008 that there was a culture of illegal voicemail hacking at the News of the World tabloid, according to documents released in Britain on Tuesday.
James Murdoch was told in 2008 about an email that showed phone hacking at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid was more widespread than his company claimed, the paper's former lawyer said.
James Murdoch was under pressure Saturday over the extent of his knowledge of Britain's phone-hacking scandal as accusations of tabloid wrongdoing spread beyond the felled News of the World.
