From Polly Toynbee in the Guardian this morning:
Meanwhile, US law may enter the fray. A former Labour cabinet minister has alerted attention to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes an American company (News Corp) liable for colossal fines if any employee bribes a foreign official (the Met police) even if no one at head office knew. What's more, any whistleblower inside the company (sacked News of the World reporters), stands to win a percentage of that fine if they report acts of bribery.
Oh yes.....please.
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One other point bears making and that is with reference to the situation of NoW staff. Those people, week in week out, produced material that vilified and intended to hurt the most vulnerable people in our society. They vilified asylum seekers, vulnerable benefit claimants, and gay people. The paper was racist and misogynistic too. They justified all this by pretending to expose mostly minor misconduct in others, while in reality concealing their own gross criminality and that of their political protectors. Their impending redundancy is not a cause for regret it is a cause for rejoicing.