Rupert Murdok Office in Washington became a landmark

The Washington Office for Relations with the government structures of Rupert Murdok News Corp. He was among the tourist attractions of the American capital.

According to RIA Novosti, with reference to the USA Today newspaper, three new stops will include three new stops from the future Saturday: News Corp., who gained fame in connection with the recent scandal of listening to News of the World of British officials, a house where he lived in The former Senator John Ansine, as well as the Congress gym, where a member of the House of Representatives of Anthony Winer, implicated in the sex scandal, trained.

“Tickets for this tour, also including a visit to the Watergate hotel and the house of ex -Senator Gary Hart (suspected in marital infidelity), will cost $ 35. Pensions and students will cost 30 and $ 25, respectively,” the publication notes.

News International Publishing House (NEWS Corp. Rupert Murdok, which is included in the media corporation), came under a flurry of criticism in connection with the large -scale facts of the wiretap of celebrities for receiving sensational stories. In connection with the scandal, the most circulation British newspaper News of the World was closed in early July; Several people were arrested and interrogated. Washington Office News Corp. In relations with government structures, is located in the very center of the American capital at North Capitol Street, not far from the railway station.

The Senator Republican from Nevada John Ansine, who served 11 years, resigned on May 3, 2011, after he admitted to extramarital communications and confirmed the media reports that he helped his husband’s mistress to get a prestigious work in a lobbying company. Hamptons demanded almost a million dollars from the 52-year-old senator for silence about a love intrigue. Ensine refused, but his family, as reported by the media, nevertheless paid Hamptons 96 thousand dollars. The house where the senator lived in Washington is located in the city center on C Street.

The congressman from New York Vainer left the post on June 21, 2011, after he admitted to the addiction to acquaintance with women on the Internet and sending his own photographs of obscene content. Shortly before the scandal, the 46-year-old Weiner married an assistant to the US Secretary of State, at the time of the resignation of Weiner, the couple was expecting a child.

The former Senator Democrat from Colorado Gary Hart, who participated in 1988 in the presidential campaign, was accused of marital infidelity. In response to the accusations, he accused the press of slander of one of the statements and advised journalists to more closely monitor his private life.

After that, journalists organized a real investigation, as a result of which they found that Hart spent several days on a yacht in the company of a young woman. As a confirmation, one of the newspapers published a photograph of Hart, in which the presidential candidate sits on a pier in a T -shirt with the name of the Monkey Business yacht and hugs a woman who cried him on his knees. Subsequently, it was possible to establish that the woman was a well -known model of the Donny Rice in those years. A week after the publication, Hart left the campaign, despite the fact that he had the highest rating among one of candidates.

The complex of buildings, where the Watergate Hotel was previously located, is also associated with a political scandal. Shortly before the 1972 presidential elections, in which the current president-republican Richard Nixon participated in the Democratic Party headquarters located in this hotel, five people were detained, which, according to the investigation, installed listening equipment and copied the documents of the headquarters. Democrats accused the Nixon administration of organizing an invasion. One of the White House consultants was convicted of preparing wiretaps.

In mid -1973, Nixon refused to provide the investigation of negotiations in the oval office, which could shed light on the Watergate case, in 1974, after attempts to pressure from the president to the Ministry of Justice, the House of US representatives begins the impeachment procedure. Nixon filed to resign on August 9, 1974, four days after the films hidden by him were at the disposal of the Congress commission to investigate the incident in the Watergate Hotel. The audio recordings recorded a conversation between Nixon with the head of the White House apparatus, during which the interlocutors discuss the methods that could be prevented by the FBI and the CIA to investigate the scandal. Currently, most of the "Watergate" occupies a residential complex. Among his residents was US Secretary of State Condolas Rice during the years of work in the administration of George Bush - the youngest.