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**Maggy** · 07-09-2011, 07:51

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/wo...nt&tntemail1=y

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Mr. Crone and Mr. Myler testified that the meeting had centered on the e-mail, which they said they had cited in support of their argument that a settlement should be made with Mr. Taylor. Mr. Crone said he was “absolutely certain” he had shown the e-mail to Mr. Murdoch, and had pushed to settle the case because there were four other targets of News of the World phone-hacking who were “waiting in the wings” to begin civil damages lawsuits of their own that would draw heavily on evidence in the Taylor case if it were not ended by a financial settlement with a binding confidentiality clause.
Mr. Myler testified that all three men at the meeting “perfectly understood the seriousness and significance of what we were discussing,” in terms of more civil suits if the Taylor case was not settled and the e-mail was introduced in evidence.

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James Murdoch said in his statement, however, that his testimony in July was “an accurate account of events” and that Mr. Crone and Mr. Myler “did not show me the e-mail.” “As I said in my testimony, there was nothing discussed in the meeting that led me to believe that a further investigation was necessary,” he said.

So who to believe?