{"id":177756,"date":"2015-09-02T17:01:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=177756"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:01:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T17:01:52","slug":"uk-prosecutors-mulling-charges-news-corp-phone-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-prosecutors-mulling-charges-news-corp-phone-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"UK prosecutors mulling charges over News Corp. phone hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>British prosecutors are reportedly considering charges against media mogul Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. over a 2011 phone hacking scandal at a subsidiary tabloid of the corporation\u2019s UK division.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The news comes amid reports that the former editor of the now-defunct News of the World tabloid and Murdoch\u2019s chief executive officer, Rebekah Brooks, is set to return to the company.<\/p>\n<p>London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police said Saturday it had submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service last month. Prosecutors confirmed they had &#8220;received a full file of evidence for consideration of corporate liability charges&#8221; relating to phone hacking, AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>A decision about whether to prosecute the corporation rests with Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>This is while British media reports say Brooks (pictured below), who quit News Corp. when the hacking scandal broke four years ago, would return to head Murdoch&#8217;s British newspaper division, which includes the Times, Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/29\/426854\/Murdoch-News-Corp-hacking-charges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British prosecutors are reportedly considering charges against media mogul Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp. over a 2011 phone hacking scandal at a subsidiary tabloid of the corporation\u2019s UK division. The news comes amid reports that the former editor of the now-defunct News of the World tabloid and Murdoch\u2019s chief executive officer, Rebekah Brooks, is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-177756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}