Special Report: Murdoch row - why UK tabloids bin-dive and blag
LONDON (Reuters) - Benjamin Pell made a second career out of digging through the contents of people's rubbish bags and selling it to the British press. The office cleaner, or 'Benji the Binman' as he was known to his clients on Fleet Street, regularly passed journalists the discarded papers of lawyers, celebrities and business executives. Benji's low-tech operations in the late 1990s fed stories on a high-profile libel case and even Elton John's flower bill.
Kate Holton and Mark Hosenball
LONDON
Thu Jul 7, 2011 12:11pm EDT
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/07/us-hacking-tabloids-idUSTRE7663IR20110707