Rupert Murdoch phone-hacking scandal: US connections grow
Murdoch is involved with another corruption scandal: his cigarette mafia past. The Marboro Cigarettes Man, Murdoch oversaw the Philip Morris Tobacco Company during a period when it was committing felony racketeering crimes. The corporation was convicted in federal court of RICO Organized Crime activities, including making corrupt payoffs for science frauds through numbered Swiss bank accounts in "Operation Whitecoats" to the tune of $16,000,000.00 in a sngle year's budget. Murdoch worked closely with the Organized Crime gang ($55,000,000.00 CRIMINAL FINES) the Koch Brothers, using Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE is now split into Freedomworks, and Americans for Prosperity).