The Associated Press
LONDON -- Rebekah Brooks, former News of the World editor and News International chief executive, will learn today whether she faces charges stemming from the phone hacking investigation, a spokesman for the law firm representing her said yesterday.
Paul Askew, spokesman for the firm Kingsley Napley, confirmed media reports that Brooks and her husband, Charlie, would learn of any possible charges when they answered bail today. He declined to comment further.
Brooks, 43, who resigned in July as head of Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper operation, is one of the central figures in the scandal over tabloid phone hacking that has shaken Murdoch's News Corp. She has twice been arrested and questioned by police about illegal eavesdropping and obstruction of justice.
The phone hacking scandal exploded in July after revelations that the now-defunct News of the World had hacked murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone after she disappeared in 2002. Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old newspaper amid widespread public revulsion.
More than 40 people have been arrested and questioned by police about tabloid wrongdoing, including Brooks and Prime Minister David Cameron's former media chief, Andy Coulson. Murdoch has paid out millions to settle lawsuits from 60 actors, athletes, politicians and other public figures whose voice mails were hacked. Dozens more lawsuits have been filed.
Cameron ordered a judge-led inquiry to sift through the fallout and examine media ethics in Britain.
As the scandal ricocheted in the news, it also raised questions about the close ties between British politicians and the media, chiefly Murdoch's media empire.
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