Phone Hacking Scandals Amidst his rise to television stardom, Morgan had to contend with accusations dating back to his newspaper days.
In 2005, News of the World - which, remember, Morgan headed up for a year - published a story about Prince Harry injuring himself. The only way they could have gotten the details for that story claimed royal officials, was if they had hacked personal voicemails.
Thus set off a series of events that rocked the British media, political, and celebrity world. Arrests were made, investigations were done, lawsuits were filed,
and it takes six years before some actual action is taken to address the phone hacking scandal. Rupert Murdoch issues apologies for phone hacking in print in the form of a full page ad in the last issue published of News of the World.
Rebekah Brooks - the same Rebekah who Morgan had break into the Sunday Times office - resigned as CEO of News International. She's then arrested, though quickly released on bail.
The FBI opened an investigation into News of the World and allegations they were hacking into the phones of 9/11 victims. London's police department was investigated for corruption.
Needless to say, the scandal enveloped England, and the world was paying attention. Though Morgan had been out of the newspaper world for some time, he was not immune to being questioned about the scandal.
In fact he had to answer questions regarding the voicemails of one of England's most famous personas . . . Sir Paul McCartney. McCartney's ex-wife, Heather Mills had alleged that her voicemails had been listened to after she and McCartney had a fight in 2001.
A reporter who called her just seemed to know too much, and Mills maintained that she hadn't shared the voicemails with anyone, and that she had deleted all of them.
The only way anyone could know as much as that reporter did was if he himself had hacked and listened to the voicemails, or talked to someone who had. Morgan had mentioned in 2006 that he had heard a message from McCartney to Mills,
