Fox °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ officials over the search of reporter James Rosen's records amid a federal leak investigation
But prosecutors told Fox's parent company of a subpoena nearly three years ago.
Prosecutors issued a subpoena for Rosen's phone records and got a judge to sign off on a sealed warrant for his emails back in May 2010.
The Justice Department informed °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Corporation lawyers in August 2010 of the phone records search. But a Fox executive and a °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Corp. spokesman say that vital information was never shared by °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Corp with Fox's executives or lawyers — hence, they say, Fox's expressions of outrage last week were real.
Former °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Corp. General Counsel Lon Jacobs says he never received notification from the Department of Justice about Rosen's records. Justice, Jacobs said, appears to have sent a fax to his office line in August of 2010 and never followed up.
"I don't know why the Department of Justice would send a single fax," Jacobs said. "If they wanted Fox °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ to know about it, why not go to Fox?"
The disclosure does not change the anger of journalists toward a series of aggressive leak inquiries. But °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Corp. spokesman Nathaniel Brown says the company is reviewing its apparent oversight, which just came to light.
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