LONDON — News Corp. says it has terminated legal payments to Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator implicated in the phone hacking scandal roiling Britain’s establishment.Mulcaire’s hiring of a high-flying defense lawyer has long led many to suspect that the company was footing his legal bills, possibly in a bid to buy the convicted criminal’s silence.
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The termination of the payments Wednesday came one day after media baron Rupert Murdoch told lawmakers that he would try to find a way to stop the payments “provided it is not in breach of a legal contract.”
