Rebekah Brooks released on bail until October 2011. On 13 March 2012, Brooks was rearrested, together with her husband, on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Ninety people have been arrested in conjunction with illegal acquisition of confidential information since police renewed investigations in 2011, many of them employees or agents of newspapers for which Brooks had responsibilities. Sixteen have been formally charged with crimes. On 15 May 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged Brooks and five others with conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Charged along with Brooks regarding removal of documents and computers to conceal
2009–2011 News of the World phone hacking scandal investigations he was the opposition's spokesman on higher education, publicist Max Clifford and even Rebekah Brooks, then editor of the "News of the World"'s sister paper "The Sun". In addition to this "The Guardian" reported that News Group - the "News of the World's" parent company - paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of "News of the World" journalists using criminal methods (accessing mobile phone voicemails of various public figures) to obtain stories. The article further reported sources as stating that News Group staff used private investigators to access several thousand mobile phone