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E-mail to Murdoch’s son on hacking deleted

By New York Times

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  February 02, 2012

An email telling Rupert Murdoch’s son James that phone hacking might be “rife’’ at News of the World was deleted from his computer less than a week before the police opened their current investigation into phone hacking, lawyers said yesterday. The deletion was part of an “email stabilization and modernization program’’ in which a number of accounts were “being prepared for the migration to a new email system,’’ said Linklaters, a law firm representing News International, the British newspaper arm of the Murdoch media empire.

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