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Q: Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Tom Watson MP questions James Murdoch about whether he was aware of the email 
  
 Evidence on phone hacking given to MPs by News International chairman James Murdoch has been called into question by two former executives at the firm. 
  
 Mr Murdoch told the culture committee he had not been "aware" of an email suggesting the practice went wider than a "rogue" News of the World reporter. 
  
 But ex-NoW editor Colin Myler and ex-NI legal manager Tom Crone have now said they "did inform" him of the email. 
  
 Mr Murdoch later said he "stands by his testimony" to the committee on Tuesday. 
  
 Meanwhile, the BBC has learned the FBI plans to contact actor Jude Law following claims his mobile phone was hacked during a visit to the US. 
  
 It is alleged a story published by the News of the World in 2003 was based on information obtained from his voicemail which, if proved, could lead to charges in the US because his phone would have been operating on a US network. News International denies the claims. 
  
 In another development on Thursday, it emerged Sun features editor Matt Nixson had been sacked from the paper in relation to an investigation into the time he was at the News of the World. 
  
 The management and standards committee of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, confirmed it had "terminated the contract of a member of staff in relation to his previous work". 
  
 The committee said while it was authorised to co-operate fully with all investigations it was also conducting its own enquiries where relevant. 
  
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 Regarding the emails, in April 2008, Mr Murdoch authorised the payment of an out-of-court settlement of more than £600,000 to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, over the hacking of his phone. 
  
 He has said at the time he did not know the full extent of hacking that may have been going on at the News of the World. 
  
 There has been a potentially important development in respect of who knew what and when BBC business editor Robert Peston 
  
 The paper's royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had both been jailed for hacking into phones of the royal household in 2007. 
  
 But the email in question was marked "for Neville" and is said to have implied the News of the World's chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck was also implicated in malpractices. 
  
 Commons culture, media and sport committee chairman John Whittingdale said the committee would ask Mr Murdoch to clarify what he had said on the matter as part of a written response containing additional information that he has already promised to provide. 
  
 BBC business editor Robert Peston described the pronouncements as a potentially important development in respect of who knew what and when. 
  
 At the committee hearing on Tuesday, Labour's Tom Watson asked Mr Murdoch: "When you signed off the Taylor payment, did you see or were you made aware of the full Neville email, the transcript of the hacked voicemail messages?" 
  
 Mr Murdoch replied: "No, I was not aware of that at the time". 
  
 He went on: "There was every reason to settle the case, given the likelihood of losing the case and given the damages - we had received counsel - that would be levied." 
  
 In their statement, Mr Myler and Crone said: "Just by way of clarification relating to Tuesday's CMS select committee hearing, we would like to point out that James Murdoch's recollection of what he was told when agreeing to settle the Gordon Taylor litigation was mistaken. 
  
 "In fact, we did inform him of the 'for Neville' email which had been produced to us by Gordon Taylor's lawyers." 
  
 In a statement issued by News Corporation, Mr Murdoch said: "I stand by my testimony to the select committee." ||||| Mr. Myler and Mr. Crone’s statement seems to mark a round of finger-pointing, coming days after the testimony of Mr. Murdoch and his father, Rupert, the News Corporation chairman, who testified that he was not to blame for the hacking and was let down by people he trusted. 
  
 Mr. Myler and Mr. Crone spoke out because they were angered that the company was telling reporters that they had failed to tell James Murdoch about critical facts in the civil lawsuit, three executives said in interviews. In a statement, Mr. Murdoch said, “I stand by my testimony to the select committee.” 
  
 On Tuesday, Mr. Murdoch also told the committee that he “did not get involved in any of the negotiations directly” and that the settlement seemed reasonable at the time. Beyond Mr. Myler and Mr. Crone, other News International executives, as well as members of Mr. Taylor’s legal team, painted a picture of Mr. Murdoch as being quite engaged in keeping the case from going to trial. They say that the size of the settlement he authorized reflected that. 
  
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 In July 2008, News International’s chief financial officer, Clive Milner, was asked to endorse a check for £725,000. He was not told what it was for — only that “the check is for James Murdoch,” according to a company official with direct knowledge of the matter and an account Mr. Milner has shared with friends. 
  
 The negotiations were so tightly held that only Mr. Crone, Mr. Myler and Mr. Murdoch knew about them, said two company officials. The officials said that even employees who were typically involved in legal decisions did not learn of the settlement until it leaked in a newspaper. 
  
 “I was gobsmacked” at the amount, said one of them. 
  
 Mr. Murdoch testified on Tuesday that the size of the settlement reflected a judgment “by distinguished outside counsel” that the company was going to lose the case and that potential damages that could run up to about $1.6 million at today’s rates. 
  
 But the $1.4 million settlement was a record amount for a privacy case. At the time, cases involving published stories shown to have violated the privacy of claimants were settling for $6,000 to $24,000, lawyers said. Another factor that made the Taylor settlement unusual was that The News of the World had only prepared, but not published, an article about Mr. Taylor. 
  
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 On July 24, 2008, while the negotiations in the Taylor settlement case were drawing to a close, Max Mosley, a former auto racing executive, won a $120,000 judgment over a front-page article in The News of the World that falsely accused him of engaging in “sick Nazi orgies.” That settlement was considered a record at the time. In current hacking cases, News International itself has said any settlement beyond about $160,000 is unreasonable. 
  
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 When Mr. Taylor’s legal team began negotiations, the company offered about $99,000. But the figure kept rising as the company was made aware of the evidence that Mr. Taylor’s lawyer had obtained by court order. 
  
 The evidence came from a trove Scotland Yard had seized during the investigation of the hacking of the royal household’s phones from the home of Mr. Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the tabloid. 
  
 In addition to the “for Neville” e-mail, News International lawyers were also shown a draft of the unpublished article about what was said to have been an affair between Mr. Taylor and his assistant. The article was based on a voice mail left on his phone by the assistant that said, “Thank you for yesterday.” In fact, the woman’s gratitude was for a speech Mr. Taylor gave at her father’s funeral, according to his lawyer, Mark Lewis. 
  
 Among the evidence made available to News International was an audiotape of Mr. Mulcaire instructing a reporter on how to hack phone messages. It turned out that the reporter worked for another newspaper, but at the time, company executives believed he worked for them, said one executive. 
  
 The turning point in negotiations came in April 2008 after a judge ordered Mr. Mulcaire, in open court, to identify “Neville” and the reporter whose voice was heard on the audiotape. That is when News International increased the offer to about $798,000 for Mr. Taylor and $648,000 for legal costs, according to three people with direct knowledge of the talks. The legal fees represented 100 percent of the amount requested by Mr. Taylor’s legal team, which occurs only rarely in such cases, the three people said. 
  
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 “It very quickly became silly money,” said a person with knowledge of the negotiations. 
  
 Indeed, counting News International’s own legal bills, the total cost to the company exceeded the $1.6 million figure, at today’s exchange rates, that Mr. Murdoch testified he worried the company would have to pay if the case went to trial. 
  
 After Mr. Murdoch insisted that he knew nothing about the underlying facts, Tom Watson, a Labour member of Parliament, said to him on Tuesday, “But you paid an astronomical sum, and there was no reason to.” 
  
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 Mr. Murdoch told the committee that he thought it was “simply a matter” relating to Mr. Goodman’s actions, and that he acted on the advice of both Mr. Myler and his counsel. 
  
 Pressed about his lack of knowledge — at one point Adrian Sanders, a Liberal Democrat member of Parliament, asked him if he “was familiar with the term willful blindness” — Mr. Murdoch explained that he had only just taken over the News Corporation’s Europe and Asia operations when he was advised, in early 2008, to settle the case. 
  
 He said that even with the benefit of hindsight, he would do it again, but added that “if I knew that what we know now,” he would also have contacted the police and “moved faster to get to the bottom of these allegations.” |||||
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James Murdoch’s testimony to members of Parliament on the tabloid scandal is again being challenged, this time by two former News International executives. An ex-News of the World editor and another exec say that contrary to what the younger Murdoch testified, they “did inform” him of an email that pointed to the wider extent of phone hacking, the BBC reports. Murdoch had said he wasn’t “aware” of the email, which indicated that the hacking went beyond the activities of one “rogue” journalist. Murdoch “stands by his testimony,” he said in a statement. The email was tied to Murdoch’s settlement of a lawsuit over the phone hacking of a soccer union leader—it contained the transcript of a hacked cellphone message, and was labeled "for Neville," likely a reference to one of the paper's chief reporters. The executives say they told Murdoch that the settlement was remarkably big; had the lawsuit gone forward, notes the New York Times, the email would probably have become public—striking a blow to the firm’s claims that just one reporter was involved in hacking.