Image by gruntzooki via FlickrBritain's phone hacking scandal, where journalists at the News of the World tabloid eavesdropped on the voice mails of royals, celebrities, politicians and even a teenage murder victim, has shaken Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and the highest levels of government.Top people in Murdoch's empire and the police have been forced out. Prime Minister David Cameron's judgment has been called into question for hiring an ex-News of the World editor implicated in the scandal.
With the arrests of 15 people and extra police officers drafted in to work the developing case, the details just keep on unraveling -- slowly and painfully -- miring top players in a morass of bad publicity.
In the latest twist, the BBC reported that the former editor of the tabloid at the heart of the scandal received payments and benefits from the paper while working as a Cameron aide.
Andy Coulson continued to receive severance pay amounting to several hundred thousand dollars from the now-defunct News of the World for months after he was hired by Cameron, and also kept his health care plan and company car, according to BBC, which did not cite sources.
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