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It turns out Coulson was on the NOTW dime to the tune of many hundreds of thousands of pounds while he was sitting pretty at 10 Downing Street -
Registers show that in September 2007 Mr Coulson failed to declare health insurance, company car and severance payments from his former employers. The benefits are thought to have been worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Tom Watson, the Labour MP, has written to Heather Wood, the registrar of members’ financial interests at the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, claiming that rules could have been broken. The rules state that anyone with a pass must declare “any occupation or employment for which they receive over £329 from the same source in a calendar year”. Gifts or benefits valued at more than £329 must also be declared. If Mr Coulson, who quit as director of communications in 10 Downing Street over the phone hacking scandal, is found to have broken the rules, he may have to apologise formally to the registrar. Miss Wood said she would decide next week whether to investigate further.
Not happy with that embarrassment to Cameron, it turns out the fearless Murdoch crew are now being investigated for misconduct in the United States -
Mr Holder, Barack Obama’s most senior law enforcement official, told relatives during a meeting on Wednesday afternoon that he was “outraged” at the “disgusting and unconscionable” allegations that their loved ones may have been victims of the tabloid phone hacking scandal, according to one who attended the meeting. He said American authorities were treating the claims very seriously and that Robert Mueller, the Director of the FBI, was being “updated almost every day” on the progress of an inquiry by his agency, which was prompted by a report in The Daily Mirror last month.
And then the ongoing scandals in the US also -
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News Corporation faces potential legal difficulty in the US on other fronts. Jude Law, the actor, has alleged that his voicemail was hacked by News of the World operatives while he was in New York’s JFK airport in 2003. Meanwhile allegations have resurfaced that News America Marketing, the company’s US advertising arm, hacked the computer systems of a rival firm before buying it for $30 million (£18 million) in 2009.
And the UK, as the police bribery scandals are added to the collection of Royal phone taps and hacking of murder victims and celebrity phones, theft of financial and police records, and assorted other wrongs so far revealed to the Murdoch weary UK public.
This is the gift that just keeps on giving, while the Tory head of the Con-Lib hermaphrodite government likely wishes he never heard of NOTW, one wonders just what all Labour will be found to have done in the past to appease the Murdoch empire, for at this stage of the game, "they did it too" is likely the only excuse or mitigation left to try and plead.
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Now the riots are over the NOTW Scandal can proceed- - 
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