FBI Opens 9/11 Victims Phone Hacking Investgation

by NowPublic Staff | July 14, 2011 at 11:19 am

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News Corp. to Face FBI Probe over Phone Hacking

The phone hacking scandal, which sank NOTW and is threatening the rest of Rupert Murdoch's UK papers, has drawn FBI attention. Following calls from the American media as well as Congress, the FBI is opening an inquiry into allegations that News International journalists tried to obtain phone records of 9/11 victims.

Congressmen Peter King (R-NY), John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Robert Menendez (D-NJ_, and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) have been pressing for the FBI to get involved in the hacking and corruption scandal that just keeps growing.

Meanwhile, The Guardian pontificates on James Murdoch's career prospects in the face of the BSkyB bid implosion and the growing scandal that is infecting more of News International's properties.

The FBI's New York office will handle the investigation; New York City is News Corporation's home town.