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Xipe Totec

(43,872 posts)
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 01:29 PM Jun 2014

After Bribery Scandal, High-Level Departures at Walmart

Source: New York Times

Thomas A. Mars, formerly the chief administrative officer for Walmart in the United States, stepped down. José Luis Rodríguezmacedo Rivera, once the general counsel at Walmart’s Mexican division, quietly left the company. And H. Lee Scott Jr., who was Walmart’s chief executive, will retire from the board this month.

These men belong to a list of executives from the uppermost reaches of Walmart’s management who held critical positions when corruption scandals engulfed the company’s international division. Come July, almost every person on that list will no longer be with the company — but no departure has been cited by Walmart as a way to clean house after those scandals.

It has been more than two years since accusations of widespread bribery surfaced about Walmart de México, drawing a host of investor lawsuits and a United States government investigation into Walmart’s global operations. The company’s financial outlay is closing in on nearly half a billion dollars as it deals with external and internal inquiries, which were set in motion by an investigation published by The New York Times.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/05/business/after-walmart-bribery-scandals-a-pattern-of-quiet-departures.html



Thought I should add more gasoline to the fire...
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After Bribery Scandal, High-Level Departures at Walmart (Original Post) Xipe Totec Jun 2014 OP
The one thing that still sticks in my craw... SoapBox Jun 2014 #1
Fucksticks, all of them. 47of74 Jun 2014 #5
good. nt WhiteTara Jun 2014 #2
As usual Bickle Jun 2014 #3
Poor Wakmart..... wolfie001 Jun 2014 #4

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
1. The one thing that still sticks in my craw...
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 02:35 PM
Jun 2014

Was how they were altering the time card records, so that workers never got one cent of overtime.

And it was widespread through out the company...who went to jail over that?

Oh ya, no one...slap to the hands and a couple million dollar fine...nothing.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
5. Fucksticks, all of them.
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 08:32 PM
Jun 2014

To them jail is for the hourly minimum wage employees, not the managers.

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