LONDON \u2014 Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was besieged Monday by accusations that two more of his British newspapers engaged in privacy violations that included accessing former Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s bank account information and stealing the medical records of his seriously ill baby son.<\/p>\n
If proven true, the charges by rival newspapers seem certain to dramatically increase the pressure on Murdoch’s News Corp. from a scandal that seems to grow wider and deeper by the hour.<\/p>\n
The public outrage began a week ago over wrongdoing at the Murdoch-owned best-selling tabloid News of the World. It has since disrupted the media titan’s plans to take over highly profitable satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting and slashed billions off the value of his global conglomerate, News Corp. <\/p>\n
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