FBI Investigates News Corp Following 9/11 Phone Hack Allegations

After nearly a decade of fighting to preserve his son's legacy, Jim Riches said the emerging News Corp scandal involving 9/11 victims is the ultimate slap in the face.

"I think it’s abominable, and if these people could pry and hack into 9/11 family members, then they’re making money off the dead,” said Riches, who lost his son on September 11th.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now looking into allegations that reporters with the now-defunct News of the World attempted to hack phones of people who were killed during the terror attacks.

Riches' son, Jimmy Jr., was a 29-year-old firefighter who died when the towers collapsed.

"They might have been trying to pry into my phone records or my son’s phone records or whatever, but we are asking the FBI to look into this,” said Riches. “We want to sit down with them and we want to see the results of the investigation.”

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is at the center of a firestorm that has sparked investigations in Britain and Washington.

It all started when word leaked that Murdoch's employees hacked into the phone of a British teenage murder victim.

Explosive allegations that a News of the World reporter tried to buy phone records of 9/11 victims from a private investigator in New York followed.

9/11 family members like Jim Riches say the allegations are deeply troubling, and if they prove to be true, he wants the parties involved prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Members of Congress are also calling for a full-scale investigation.

"We have the 10th anniversary, the wounds are already opened up, there’s no closure, my son is never going to walk back through that door,” said Riches. “The wounds are open and this just reopens them again."

Next week, Rupert Murdoch and his son, James, will face Britain's Parliament to address allegations of phone hacking and bribery.