to give me quite a detailed outline of how murdoch s news of the world newspaper was engaged in industrial scale criminal activity to get information for stories. this whole scandal begins with a small story buried inside news of the world about prince william and a soccer injury. the palace immediately realizes the only way that the paper could know this is through some kind of leak. security staff figured out that the information could only have come from voice messages left on mobile phones. apparently the accessing or hacking into possibly of the prince of wales personal voice messages. they traced the hacking to a private investigator named glenn mulkair who happens to be working for the royal editor at the news of the world clyde goodman.
both of them are arrested, convicted and sent to jail. the editor of news world resigns and the line that news corporation put out was that this was an isolated incident. it was simply this one investigator, this one reporter. it went no further than that. they had dealt with the problem. it was now history, but it wasn t. hello, it s glenn. glenn, how are you in the. a very quick one. resale on gordon taylor. do not delete anything. it asks you for the pin. put his number back in and there s three messages on there, all right? fantastic. a year later the news of the world is poised to publish a salacious article about a british newspaper executive named gordon taylor.
taylor ended up believing his phone had been hacked and sued news of the world. the case was worth 100 million pounds, an extraordinary amount of money. one would assume the only way murdoch would pay this amount of money is if they wanted to keep something secret. in fact, there was something that the news of the world wanted to make sure never saw the light of day. highly damning document that includes a transcript from a hacked conversation for a reporter named neville thorobeck. this showed clyde goodman was not the only reporter in news of the world who relied upon the black magic of glenn mulkair. june 7, 2008, james murdoch is home in london with his children when he receives a panicky email from one of his executives and in this email the executive indicates that this is the nightmare scenario,