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4. More of Morgan's shady past: a share scam

Sun Dec 18, 2011, 07:47 PM

Dec 2011

Private Eye reports that there were some strange omissions from the ITV interview that Lord Sugar gave to Piers Morgan before Morgan headed off to present a new show on CNN.

Apparently, whenever Morgan asked Sugar a question he didn't want to answer, Sugar said the word "Viglen". That, of course, is the name of Sugar's computer company, coincidentally the company that almost got Morgan into a lot of trouble.

In January 2000, when he was Mirror editor, he bought £20,000 of Viglen shares. The following day the Mirror's City Slickers column told readers to buy Viglen shares. In the controversy that followed, the City Slickers writers Anil Bhoyrul and James Hipwell were sacked. Bhoyrul was evenutally sentenced to community service and Hipwell went to jail, but Morgan was not prosecuted.

Read more: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/ca/computeractive-blog/1938629/piers-morgans-viglen#ixzz1gvthiRc4

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CNN star Piers Morgan faces questions over past [View all] Liberal_in_LA Dec 2011 OP

I found out about this a while ago Enrique Dec 2011 #1

A tabloid journalist on CNN? Considering the state of our media sabrina 1 Dec 2011 #3

You can say that again. UnrepentantLiberal Dec 2011 #11

interesting stuff! Whisp Dec 2011 #2

More of Morgan's shady past: a share scam muriel_volestrangler Dec 2011 #4

I consider him to be an incarnate demon of some sort Bluenorthwest Dec 2011 #5

wonder how Piers is feeling today... Whisp Dec 2011 #6

R#7 & K n/t UTUSN Dec 2011 #7

kick Whisp Dec 2011 #8

link for more background story here: Whisp Dec 2011 #9

He's just over-all creepy. I was shocked when cnn hired him alittlelark Dec 2011 #10

update: Whisp Dec 2011 #12