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Breaking The Hollywood Cover-Up Code

Phone Hacking

Prosecutors say code names from a WWII movie and a fake pizza delivery were used to cover up a conspiracy to destroy evidence of phone hacking at News of the World.

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Senior executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News International launched a complex operation to cover up their crimes after illegal activities were exposed by the phone hacking scandal, the lead prosecutor at a trial in London alleged on Monday.

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Rebekah Brooks was accused by the prosecution of orchestrating a conspiracy to pervert the...

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