News International phone hacking scandal 2007. "The "News of the World" legal manager Tom Crone attended virtually every meeting of my legal team and was given full access to the Crown Prosecution Service's evidence files." according to Clive Goodman's letter. The effect of the phone hacking scandal originating with the "News of the World" also raised wider questions about the ethics employed by companies under Murdoch's ownership, as well as the effects the scandal will have on the ethics employed specifically by print journalists and to some extent the wider world of journalism. Murdoch had previously been criticised for building a media empire that lacked
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations World" had rehired a private investigator shortly after his release from a seven-year prison sentence for blackmail. The "News of the World" had used the investigator prior to his imprisonment, at a time when Coulson was deputy editor. In February 2010, "The Guardian" could not name Jonathan Rees as he was involved in a new criminal trial. In September 2010 "The Guardian" revealed that in 2009 plans by the Home Office to ask Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary to review the police investigation into the phone hacking scandal were cancelled "after intense internal lobbying", with a senior Home Office official