LONDON (AP) — Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks admitted in court Thursday that she sometimes paid public officials for information, but insisted she only did so when it was in the public interest.

The ex-chief of Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. newspapers had authorized payments “half a dozen” times.

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