Despite the fact that Tom Crone, the News of the World's former legal manager, has previously told the culture committee that he had explained to Murdoch that the large settlement was necessary as there was evidence of other hacking.
Tina has four standout arias, tracing her awakening to life and feeling after years in the shadows, as the Lodger seduces her to get access to the papers. (Their a cappella duet at the end of Act I is an ingenious piece of writing.) As Juliana, the fierce Alexandra Deshorties slipped easily from embodying the young opera diva, warbling bel canto-style coloratura, to the old crone.
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News of the World legal manager Tom Crone welcomed the decision as "a long overdue breath of fresh air and common sense".
In the email chain, Mr. Crone mentions the transcript in the context of a "further nightmare scenario" that would bring another major lawsuit against the tabloid.
"It was not a culture of cover-up", former NoW legal manager Tom Crone told the inquiry on Wednesday.
Mr. Murdoch has been embroiled in a public spat with Mr. Myler and Tom Crone, the News of the World's in-house lawyer.
The new material on this today was an account by Tom Watson, the Labour Party's deputy chairman, of a recent conversation with Mr Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter of the News of the World, in which Mr Thurlbeck said that he had been assured by Tom Crone that Mr Murdoch had seen the "For Neville" email.
On Tuesday, in giving evidence to the select committee, Mr Murdoch went further: he said that the "for Neville" email had been concealed from him by Mr Crone and Mr Myler, when he authorised the settlement with Mr Taylor.
Mr Crone said "it was the reason that we had to settle" a case.
In particular, letters from Crone and former News of the World editor Colin Myer undermine an assertion by the younger Murdoch that the decision to pay a seven-figure settlement to soccer executive Gordon Taylor was made strictly on its own merits and was not an attempt to keep other hacking incidents from going public.
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Mr Crone and My Myler have also disputed the committee's findings, saying they stand by the evidence they gave during its public hearings.
She said he gave evidence that had "now been flatly contradicted" by Mr Crone and Mr Myler and that "in the face of a complete conflict of evidence, the committee is entitled to get to the bottom of where the truth lies".
Mr. Crone confirmed he and Mr. Myler had issued the statement but declined to comment further.
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But ex-NoW editor Colin Myler and ex-NI legal manager Tom Crone have now said they "did inform" him of the email.
In particular, two former company officials, Tom Crone and Colin Myler, said they notified him of the problem in 2008.
It says the News of the World and News International "corporately" misled the committee, as well as accusing in-house lawyer Tom Crone, former NoW editor Colin Myler and former executive chairman Les Hinton of misleading them on particular issues.
In fact, she once told me that there were three Claras in her soul: a little girl, an old crone enslaved by her family, and a young woman, the real Clara, who wanted to get out of that city forever, who wanted to paint, and take photos, and travel, and live.
So it is significant that tonight Mr Crone and Mr Myler are saying that they did inform him of the "for Neville" email.
Without admitting wrongdoing, the preparers consented to the court order, signed by U.S. District Judge Martha A. Crone in Sherman, Texas.
Mr. Crone was an old hand at News International, where he made a name on Fleet Street defending the company's racy tabloids in court.
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