Murdoch Hush Money To Chief Phone Hacker Finally Stops

Turns out that all these years News International (corp. umbrella for all Murdoch's UK papers, headed until Friday by redhaired harridan Rebekah Brooks) was paying the legal bills for "private investigator" Glenn Mulcaire, the snoop convicted back in 2007 for hacking the "royals'" phones. At that time, Murdoch's minions and their co-conspirators in the Metropolitan police thought they had successfully contained the scandal with the cover story that two "rogues" did all the hacking, and that the hacking wasn't of 4000 victims, but just a handful.

Somehow, Brooks knew nothing about any of this. Didn't know her company was paying Mulcaire's legal bills all these years? Was that yet another rogue in the co. paying them on his own authority without telling anyone?

And Brooks and Murdoch are thick as thieves- she's described as "like a daughter" to him- he was in the dark. Just endless lies from these people- as well as fake pledges of  "internal investigations" and "cooperation" while they stonewall, cover up, and destroy evidence.

Meanwhile one key witness, Sean Hoare, mysterious "dies" just in time to prevent his use in prosecutions. Hmmm. But it only took police a few minutes to say it wasn't "suspicious." A day later they insisted it was a perfectly natural death for a man in his 40s- although they couldn't give a cause of death, nor have toxicology tests been completed.

Kind of like how they "knew" that the phone hacking was down to just 2 people, and only involved the "royals."