Third senior police official resigns in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal

Scotland Yard’s communications chief resigned Thursday, the third senior police figure to part with his job over the force’s failure to come to grips with Britain’s phone hacking scandal.
Dick Fedorcio stepped down after the force decided he would face disciplinary proceedings over a contract awarded to a former executive at Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid. The Independent Police Complaints Commission ruled that Mr. Fedorcio had to answer questions over the

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