Very very quietly, the U.S. Department of "Justice" announced that it has closed its "investigation" of "News" Corp., controlled by international reactionary propaganda czar Rupert Murdoch, without charges.
The U.S. has a law, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, that makes it a criminal offense for corporations to pay bribes outside the U.S. Murdoch's British media properties were caught dead to rights bribing police there. The case is open and shut. Yet the U.S. refuses to enforce the law against Murdoch.
This isn't the first time Murdoch has proved he's above the law. One of his companies in the U.S. engaged in criminal computer hacking against a smaller rival company. No consequences.
Nor does civil law apply to Murdoch. U.S. law used to prohibit a company from owning a television station and a newspaper in the same market. For years, Murdoch ignored this law in New York City and Boston. And all that happened was that eventually the law was changed to accomodate Murdoch's monopoly fascist agitpropaganda empire.
Another violator of U.S criminal law against paying bribes overseas is Walmart, which the New York Times revealed recently had bribes Mexican government officials. [1]
1] And apparently Walmart didn't limit its bribe-paying to Mexico. See "Wal-Mart Inquiry Reflects Alarm on Corruption," New York Times, Nov. 15, 2012. China, Brazil, and India are other countries Walmart apparently bribed officials. For the article on the bribery in Mexico, see "Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle," NY Times,
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