British police are investigating whether Washington Post CEO Will Lewis obstructed justice when he worked for media mogul Rupert Murdoch 13 years ago.
Scotland Yard has opened an investigation into the Washington Post's new CEO, Will Lewis, shown here at a conference in 2017. The police investigation centers on Lewis' actions while an executive for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company.publisher and chief executive Will Lewis obstructed justice 13 years ago as he helped Rupert Murdoch grapple with an escalating phone-hacking scandal at his U.K. tabloids.
News UK, where Lewis worked, says in a statement that Brown “is seeking to persuade to take sides in a public debate in relation to media accountability” and help plaintiffs suing the company.The investigation centers on events in 2011. The Murdoch tabloids had for years hacked into the phone data and otherwise illegally obtained the private records of celebrities, including Prince Harry, government officials and ordinary people in search of juicy scoops.
“We got a warning from a source that a current member of staff had got access to Rebekah’s emails and had passed them to Tom WATSON,” Lewis said, according to police notes of that meeting later revealed in court. “Then the source came back and said it was a former member of staff and the emails had definitely been passed and that it was controlled by Gordon BROWN. This added to our anxieties.”
Lawyers representing a large cohort of people suing News UK, including Watson, contended in court earlier this week that Lewis had “fabricated a fake security threat” to justify the deletion of millions of emails during a police investigation.
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