Australian News Corp. Exec Accused of Attempted Bribery
Allegedly tried to sway senator's vote
News Corp.’s Australian arm could be facing a new scandal—and this time, it has nothing to do with phone hacking.
Australian police have been investigating a former politician’s allegations that an executive from News Corp. subsidiary News Limited attempted to bribe him in return for his vote against a government measure that could hurt the company.
In a nine-page statement to police, published earlier today by The Age, owned by a News Limited rival, former senator Bill O’Chee claimed that in 1998, an unnamed News Limited executive attempted to persuade him to vote against government legislation related to the creation of digital TV, the failure of which would benefit News Limited.
O’Chee reportedly told police that in return for his vote, the News Limited executive promised him a “special relationship” with the company as well as “editorial support from News Corp's newspapers, not only with respect to the … legislation but...
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