Oh Oh! Murdoch paid lobbyists who oppose US anti-bribery law

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/14/hacking-murdoch-paid-us-lobbyists
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Rupert Murdoch donated $1m to a pro-business lobby in the US months before the group launched a high-profile campaign to alter the anti-bribery law – the same law that could potentially be brought to bear against News Corporation over the phone-hacking scandal.

News Corporation contributed $1m to the US Chamber of Commerce last summer. In October the chamber put forward a six-point programme for amending the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, a law that punishes US-based companies for engaging in the bribery of foreign officials.

Progressive groups in the US have speculated that there is no coincidence in the contemporaneous timing of the Murdoch donation and the launch of the chamber's FCPA campaign, which they claim is designed to weaken the anti-bribery legislation. "The timing certainly raises questions about who is bankrolling this campaign – if it's not News Corporation who is it?" said Joshua Dorner of the Centre for American Progress action fund.
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Murdoch is fugged!!

[Kurmudgeon]

1. Ole Murdoch and his employees have quite the criminal attitude, don't they?

[malaise]

2. He must have known that the entire scandal was going to blow up

and the bribery charges would stick.
Murdoch is history!!

[Kurmudgeon]

4. I'm hoping his organization is history, I half expect him to end up like Ken Lay.

[glinda]

3. K & R n/t

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, malaise.

[provis99]

6. what do you mean, oh oh? Paying lobbyists is legal.

I don't see how this hurts him in any way.