In the United States, politicians have called for investigations into whether News Corporation entities hacked into the phones of Americans, including the victims of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Then, his efforts to involve himself in News Corporation entities outside his purview alienated several longtime executives and raised tensions between New York and London, according to several executives who spoke on condition of anonymity to maintain relationships with the family.
Defending individuals against huge multi-corporation entities is one thing.
House Rule 3, clause 1, goes on to state, "even where one corporation or entity is primarily affected by legislation, a Member's interest in such corporation or entity might not be found to be a disqualifying interest in the subject matter".
As shown by more recent applications of the rule, however, even where one corporation or entity is primarily affected by legislation, a Member's interest in such corporation or entity might not be found to be a disqualifying interest in the subject matter".
The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, entity, or public or private corporation, and a Federal, State, or local government agency or department.
In the months after the election, and so far without attracting much notice, a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation — an entity that had never made a soft-money contribution — donated a total of two hundred thousand dollars to the Republican House and Senate Campaign Committees.
Never before has one corporation or entity has been the subject of such broad-reaching punishment by congressional mandate.
The British Empire blurred the boundaries between "government" and "corporation" with entities like the East India Company, whose private armies helped hold the Colonies.
