Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal from Mulcaire's premises in August 2006 was the "Transcript for Nevile" email. The names appearing on this document indicated that "News of the World" journalists in addition to Clive Goodman were involved in phone hacking. The Met acknowledged the existence of this document 1 November 2007 in response to inquiries related to the civil claim brought against "News of the World" by Gordon Taylor. The court ordered the Met to turn the document over to Taylor on 7 December 2007 and Farrer and Co, which then represented News Group Newspapers, received a copy by 2 April 2008. When the chairman
Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal investigations about the diligence of its probes and possible involvement of its own personnel in illegal activities. After the scope of the phone hacking scandal became generally known in July 2011, the top two officials of the Met resigned. The new Met leadership augmented the ongoing investigations with the unusual measure of bringing in an independent police organization to help. By mid-July 2011, there were as many as ten separate investigations active at the Met, Parliament and other government agencies. From at least the 1990s, private investigator Jonathan Rees reportedly bought information from former and serving police officers, customs officers,