U.S. prosecutors are seeking to extradite an Israeli private investigator from London as part of a probe into an alleged hacking-for-hire operation that targeted opponents of Elliott Management and Exxon Mobil (XOM), Christopher Matthews, Bradley Hope and Jenny Strasburg of Wall Street Journal report, citing court documents and people familiar with the matter. The probe is focused on the investigator’s work with a Washington, D.C. lobbying and public relations firm, DCI Group, which has counted Elliott and Exxon as clients, sources told the Journal. Part of the investigation concerns hacking efforts that were aimed at Exxon’s climate critics, including the Rockefeller family, the paper reports. None of Elliott, Exxon or DCI has been accused of wrongdoing, it adds.
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