London police are reportedly looking into allegations that Washington Post publisher Will Lewis oversaw an effort to cover up a phone-hacking scandal more than a decade ago as it threatened to engulf Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid empire.
In addition, police are investigating claims Lewis attempted to mislead cops in 2011 by accusing Gordon Brown, then-prime minister of the United Kingdom, of conspiring to steal the emails of Rebekah Brooks–who was chief...