The state has brought in one of its most senior prosecutors, Gerrie Nel, the state advocate who prosecuted disgraced former police chief Jackie Selebi.
The ethics panel has been examining allegations Jackson or one of his associates offered to raise funds for disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich in exchange for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.
In one of the e-mails Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced former royal editor, was requesting cash from the newspaper's then editor, Andy Coulson, BBC business editor Robert Peston said.
It took one phone call to Scotland Yard's press office to discover that Denis MacShane thedisgraced former Labour MP for Rotherham in South Yorkshire, still has questions to answer.