Mr. Mulcaire went to jail for phone-hacking in 2007 alongside News of the World royals reporter Clive Goodman.
' The book further notes that 'Hinton... misled Parliament by suggesting that Clive Goodman was a rogue reporter.
He and former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman were jailed over royal phone tapping in 2007.
So, in other words, someone other than Clive Goodman knew about it.
The journalist who went to prison, Clive Goodman, had been saying that phone-hacking went beyond his case, Leveson Inquiry counsel Robert Jay said.
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Coulson resigned as editor after an earlier round of the phone-hacking scandal involving the paper's royal correspondent Clive Goodman and private investigator Mulcaire.
Former NoW royal editor Clive Goodman, 53 - who was jailed in 2007 for phone hacking - was arrested on suspicion of corruption.
Mr Coulson was editor of the News of the World in 2007 when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages.
Mr. Mulcaire and News of the World royals reporter Clive Goodman went to jail for six and four months, respectively, after pleading guilty to phone hacking.
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Former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman was charged with two counts of the same crime in relation to the same payments, prosecutors said.
Mr Coulson resigned as editor of the News of the World in 2007 when its royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages.
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The News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages in 2007, but the paper insists it was an isolated case.
But he admitted that, at the time of former reporter Clive Goodman's arrest in 2006, he had suspected phone hacking was more widespread than just one "rogue reporter".
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.
James Murdoch insists that he didn't know that phone hacking at the News of the World extended way beyond the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who was jailed for it.
Clive Goodman, the only News of the World reporter jailed for hacking, was arrested in the middle of a hugely successful investigation into a plot to bring down transatlantic airliners.
The News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages in 2007, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, but the paper insists it was an isolated case.
An initial police investigation into the newspaper resulted in two successful prosecutions that led to prison terms for the paper's royal-family correspondent, Clive Goodman, and Glenn Mulcaire, a private investigator hired by the tabloid.
That was nine months after Clive Goodman sent a letter to several NI executives, including Les Hinton, protesting his firing on the grounds that phone hacking was widely practiced and openly discussed at News of the World.
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He cites the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000, the law used to imprison News of the World reporter Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who teamed up to invade the voicemail accounts of various celebrities.
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The former News of the World editor is accused, along with ex-NoW royal correspondent Clive Goodman, 55, from Surrey, of requesting and authorising payments to public officials in exchange for information, including a royal phone directory known as the Green Book.
It therefore suggested that News International's official position at the time, to the effect that hacking was confined to the activities of one reporter, Clive Goodman - the former News of the World royal editor, jailed for hacking in 2007 - may not have been true.
The News of the World's admission to Ms Miller marks a new chapter in a scandal which dates back to 2006, when the paper's former royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were jailed for hacking into the mobile phone voicemails of royal aides.
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