Phone hacking scandal deepens

[Jan Klimkowski]

Mulcaire is the private eye, and Goodman the NoW royal correspondent:

Mulcaire and Goodman received payoffs for unfair dismissal from the NoWwith Muclaire receiving £80,000 and Goodman an undisclosed amount rumoured to be as much as £1 million. As both settlements were subject to confidentiality agreements, it has never been explained why the NoW would make payouts to those found guilty of criminal offences. There are also claims that Mulcaire's legal fees, thought to be running at some £500,000 so far, are being paid by News International, which publishes the NoW.
The scandal raises questions about relations between Murdoch's corporation and the police, and reaches right into the heart of the political establishment.
For several years, it appeared that the allegations of extensive phone hacking by the NoW had been laid to rest, after the Metropolitan Police ruled out further charges. Declining to publish the evidence it had collected from Mulcaire, the Met said it would instead inform those thought to be victims privately.

So, the Murdoch empire claims that Goodman was a "rogue reporter" who was acting unilaterally and without management permission, and Mulcaire was not told to hack phones by Murdoch management.

And yet Murdoch lawyers pay the pair over a milion quid for false dismissal and may have paid over half a million quid's worth of Mulcaire's legal fees.

To a "rogue" employee and a "rogue" private eye?!?!? :monkeypiss:

Perhaps the Murdoch empire should commission a new soap entitled "The Price of Omerta"....