2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations involvement of Ian Edmondson, a senior editor at the paper, in work undertaken by Mulcaire. Beginning on 8 July 2009, "The Guardian" made a series of allegations that the phone hacking activities at the "News of the World" went far beyond the activities for which the "News of the World" royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed in 2007, those activities being limited to members of the royal household. The paper alleged that hacking victims included public figures such as former deputy prime minister John Prescott, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Tessa Jowell when she was Olympics Secretary, Boris Johnson when
News media phone hacking scandal obvious evidence that many other people's phones had been hacked, remained largely unevaluated until the autumn of 2010. No one at "News of the World" other than Goodman was questioned by the Met until March 2011. Nonetheless, "senior Scotland Yard officials assured Parliament, judges, lawyers, potential hacking victims, the news media and the public that there was no evidence of widespread hacking by the tabloid." The New York Times reported that "the police agency and News International … became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the investigation. During this period, evidence of phone hacking continued