Coulson To Go Down?
- Thread starter Desperate Dan
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Relkeel
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Would it be shameful of me to admit that I would love it, love it if Coulson was jailed?
Relkeel
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Cameron and Murdoch too.
Lock them all up!
Lock them all up!
Why, what has he done to you?
EC1
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on that reckoning we can let Peter Sutcliffe out..unlikely to hurt me
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Colin Phillips
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...........and there's me thinking you didn't have a sense of humour, Hamm.
EC1
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He would if he had to read some of your ramblings on here....
Just kidding with you.
cheek :lol:
Colin Phillips
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Seems Mrs. Brooks' pay-off was slightly higher than previously reported, from the Guardian site:
Rebekah Brooks received a payoff worth about £7m after resigning as chief executive of News International at the height of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking crisis in July 2011.
The exact figure has never been disclosed by the Murdoch company – whose parent News Corporation holds its annual meeting on Tuesday – but one source said they believed it was between £6m and £8m.
An intimate of Rupert Murdoch, Brooks started out as a secretary at the News of the World in 1989, becoming editor of the News of the World and the Sun in succession.
She retained Murdoch's confidence as the phone hacking crisis intensified. After the News Corp patriarch flew into London in July last year, he took Brooks out for dinner, declaring that she was his "top priority" when questioned in the street by journalists.
The payoff package, far in excess of the £1.7m that was speculated about after her departure, comprised cash payments for loss of service, pension enhancement, money for legal costs, a car and an office.
News International declined to comment on the sum involved, but company insiders stressed there were "clawback" arrangements, which mean Brooks would have to pay some of the money back in certain circumstances.
It is understood that payback would be enforceable if Brooks was to be found guilty of a criminal offence relating to her employment. She is currently facing charges relating to interception of communications and obstruction of charges.
News Corp has not had to make any disclosure in public accounts, because its British companies have not reported their results to Companies House yet. News International companies have a financial year that ends on 30 June, so any filing covering the period of the Brooks payoff would not be due until next year.
The revelations about the size of Brooks's payoff are likely to be raised at the company's annual shareholder meeting at News Corp's Fox studios lot in Los Angeles. Some investors, such as the British group Hermes, are expected to vote against Rupert Murdoch remaining as chairman in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, but the media tycoon controls 40% of the votes so he is unlikely to lose. The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday that private emails between David Cameron and Brooks were withheld from the Leveson inquiry into press standards.
A government lawyer advised the prime minister that the emails involved were not "relevant". They were said to reveal the close friendship between Cameron and Brooks and were described by sources as containing "embarrassing" exchanges.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "All the material the inquiry asked for was given to them."
It is understood that there was an agreement between No 10 and the Leveson inquiry that Cameron would provide all emails and texts relevant to the News International bid for broadcaster BSkyB, as Cameron set out in his witness statement to the inquiry. Government sources said this was accepted by the Leveson inquiry and some texts or emails handed to the inquiry by Cameron, deemed to be on the margin of this definition, were not published by Leveson.
No 10 is not challenging the newspaper's claim that Cameron had sought legal advice on the nature of the exchanges to be given to Leveson.
Rebekah Brooks received a payoff worth about £7m after resigning as chief executive of News International at the height of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking crisis in July 2011.
The exact figure has never been disclosed by the Murdoch company – whose parent News Corporation holds its annual meeting on Tuesday – but one source said they believed it was between £6m and £8m.
An intimate of Rupert Murdoch, Brooks started out as a secretary at the News of the World in 1989, becoming editor of the News of the World and the Sun in succession.
She retained Murdoch's confidence as the phone hacking crisis intensified. After the News Corp patriarch flew into London in July last year, he took Brooks out for dinner, declaring that she was his "top priority" when questioned in the street by journalists.
The payoff package, far in excess of the £1.7m that was speculated about after her departure, comprised cash payments for loss of service, pension enhancement, money for legal costs, a car and an office.
News International declined to comment on the sum involved, but company insiders stressed there were "clawback" arrangements, which mean Brooks would have to pay some of the money back in certain circumstances.
It is understood that payback would be enforceable if Brooks was to be found guilty of a criminal offence relating to her employment. She is currently facing charges relating to interception of communications and obstruction of charges.
News Corp has not had to make any disclosure in public accounts, because its British companies have not reported their results to Companies House yet. News International companies have a financial year that ends on 30 June, so any filing covering the period of the Brooks payoff would not be due until next year.
The revelations about the size of Brooks's payoff are likely to be raised at the company's annual shareholder meeting at News Corp's Fox studios lot in Los Angeles. Some investors, such as the British group Hermes, are expected to vote against Rupert Murdoch remaining as chairman in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, but the media tycoon controls 40% of the votes so he is unlikely to lose. The Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday that private emails between David Cameron and Brooks were withheld from the Leveson inquiry into press standards.
A government lawyer advised the prime minister that the emails involved were not "relevant". They were said to reveal the close friendship between Cameron and Brooks and were described by sources as containing "embarrassing" exchanges.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "All the material the inquiry asked for was given to them."
It is understood that there was an agreement between No 10 and the Leveson inquiry that Cameron would provide all emails and texts relevant to the News International bid for broadcaster BSkyB, as Cameron set out in his witness statement to the inquiry. Government sources said this was accepted by the Leveson inquiry and some texts or emails handed to the inquiry by Cameron, deemed to be on the margin of this definition, were not published by Leveson.
No 10 is not challenging the newspaper's claim that Cameron had sought legal advice on the nature of the exchanges to be given to Leveson.
EC1
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pay offs she has had in the past won't help much soon
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£7m for a five-stretch (halved for good behaviour)?
I'd call that a tidy bit of business.....especially when you take whatever else she'll score after-the-fact into account, for copping for the Murdochs.
I'd call that a tidy bit of business.....especially when you take whatever else she'll score after-the-fact into account, for copping for the Murdochs.
Rubbish. I reckon she would give back every penny to not go through this, let alone a "five stretch" Typical commie. Obsessed with other peoples bank balances
I have no time for her from what i know, but have a sense that this might not stick.
I have no time for her from what i know, but have a sense that this might not stick.
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I think you'll find I'm an atypical Commie.
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Candidate for pathetic post of the year.
Because we see through the tories doesn't make us communist.
A substantial majority of us see through Alex Salmond, which doesn't make us communist either.
Our economy isn't ruined yet but I don't trust Salmond with it.
The army that's too pissed on Buckfast is the army that's put their lives on the line from the Falklands to Helmand in the last 30 years for the United Kingdom.
You might as well have the oil rigs for all that's left under them. We'll do what we've always done: pioneer.
You wait and see. Hadrians wall will have to go up again to keep out the refugees. This is a serious concern. Mass camps of ginger people in northumberland. Bob geldof appealing for deep fried mars bars
And you wont be able to get any Jaguar headlamps. Bourgoise cars will be destroyed and you will be lumbered with a tractor.
And you wont be able to get any Jaguar headlamps. Bourgoise cars will be destroyed and you will be lumbered with a tractor.
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But we'll be able to spell properly.
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This whole business pi$$es me off. The phone hacking, with all the connotations of conspiracy etc, was, in the vast majority of examples so far made public, simply accessing other people's voicemail using factory preset codes that people had not bothered to change. Wrong-yes, hugely evil, damaging society-no. Appropriate punishment should be administered. That the were lots of cover-ups, lies etc., well they happen whenever anyone gets caught out. Nothing unusual there. All hyped up because of political involvement.
As I understand it this trial is expected to last 5 months, at what cost? Whatever a colossal waste of time and money. Most of the trials for murder, terrorism etc, don't last that long. It makes me think that there should be time limits even though it might seem unfair.
As I understand it this trial is expected to last 5 months, at what cost? Whatever a colossal waste of time and money. Most of the trials for murder, terrorism etc, don't last that long. It makes me think that there should be time limits even though it might seem unfair.
The worst aspect is that this has got all the twitching authoritarians squealing for "press control" . This matter is being dealt with in the courts without "control" so lest leave it at that. We must NEVER have politicians interfering in our press
The hacking was awful and most especially in the Dowler case but as you say tout, not the end of the world
The Dowlers were subjected to disgusting interrogation during their case which was brought on by slimey lawyers who i would personally happily beaten to within an inch of their lives with a baseball bat with nails.
The hacking was awful and most especially in the Dowler case but as you say tout, not the end of the world
The Dowlers were subjected to disgusting interrogation during their case which was brought on by slimey lawyers who i would personally happily beaten to within an inch of their lives with a baseball bat with nails.