Murdoch executive tried to hide hacking evidence - prosecutor

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Source: Reuters

Murdoch executive tried to hide hacking evidence - prosecutor

By Michael Holden
LONDON | Mon Nov 4, 2013 9:51am EST

(Reuters) - Rebekah Brooks, the former boss of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm, and her husband were involved in an elaborate but botched plan to hide computers and documents from police investigating phone-hacking, a London court heard on Monday.

Brooks, a former editor of Murdoch's News of the World and Sun newspapers, also arranged with her personal assistant for seven boxes full of her archived notebooks to be spirited away before detectives could get hold of them, prosecutor Andrew Edis told England's Central Criminal Court, the Old Bailey.

Brooks was arrested in July 2011 and later charged with conspiracy to illegally intercept voicemails on mobile phones, authorizing illegal payments to public officials, and perverting the course of justice by hampering the police inquiry. She denies the charges.

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1. figures another giant corporation breaking the law

and figuring they can get away with it.