--- description: The U.S. has decided not to prosecute Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, over phone-hacking allegations. title: News Corp Bribery Probe Dropped in U.S. image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt176600fa4210c1e8/69877d4ef887dc153de89e64/rtr4c2v4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # News Corp. Will Not Be Prosecuted in U.S. Over Graft Allegations by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 3:53 AM CUT  Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corp and Chairman and CEO 21st Century Fox speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 29, 2014. Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corp and Chairman and CEO 21st Century Fox speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 29, 2014.Lucy Nicholson—Reuters by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2015 3:53 AM CUT Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. will not be [prosecuted](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31105645 "undefined") in the U.S. over allegations of corruption. Officials were investigating whether News Corp., a U.S. company that controls entities such as the _Wall Street Journal_ and Fox News, broke anti-bribery laws over alleged payments to British police by journalists, the BBC reports. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement Monday that it was ending its “investigation into News Corp. regarding possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act concerning bribes allegedly paid for news leads.” The media giant has been embroiled in a hacking scandal in the U.K., which caused its Sunday tabloid the _News of the World_ to cease operations in 2011. Several of the paper’s journalists have been prosecuted in the U.K. over the tapping of phones of public and private figures and illicit payments to officials. If new information comes to light, the Department of Justice says it can reopen the inquiry. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-31105645 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3693262/news-corp-corruption-rupert-murdoch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3693262/news-corp-corruption-rupert-murdoch/"},"headline":"News Corp. Will Not Be Prosecuted in U.S. Over Graft Allegations","datePublished":"2015-02-03T03:53:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:05:35.181Z","description":"The media giant has been at the center of a phone-hacking scandal in the U.K.","url":"https://time.com/3693262/news-corp-corruption-rupert-murdoch/","keywords":["Crime","Scandal","Investigation","Rupert Murdoch","bribery","payments"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt176600fa4210c1e8/69877d4ef887dc153de89e64/rtr4c2v4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt176600fa4210c1e8/69877d4ef887dc153de89e64/rtr4c2v4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corp and Chairman and CEO 21st Century Fox speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach","caption":"Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corp and Chairman and CEO 21st Century Fox speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach","creditText":"Lucy Nicholson—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3693262/news-corp-corruption-rupert-murdoch/","name":"News Corp. Will Not Be Prosecuted in U.S. Over Graft Allegations"}}]}] ```