Former Wal-Mart exec accuses CEO of ethics breach

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Source: Reuters (Yahoo)

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Wal-Mart and former marketing communications chief Julie Roehm have both filed suits over her December dismissal after less than a year at the world's largest retailer.

Roehm sued for breach of contract. In a March countersuit, Wal-Mart accused her of accepting gifts from an advertising agency that was later chosen to handle the retailer's ad account. It also accused her of misusing company travel funds on business trips with a subordinate with whom, it said, she was romantically involved.

In papers filed on Thursday in Detroit federal court, Roehm said it was Wal-Mart's top brass who violated the company's strict ethics rules.

Chief Executive H. Lee Scott had received "preferential prices" on yachts and "a large pink diamond for his wife" through his relationship with businessman Irwin Jacobs, she said. One of Jacobs' companies, Jacobs Trading Co., has the exclusive right to buy unsold Wal-Mart merchandise.

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1. It's so pathetic when ethical low lifes get into a tiff. I say throw them all

on a desert island and let them fight it out. And the grand prize being the winner has the island all time himself for the rest of his/her life. With no way off.

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2. I find it highly amusing when they eat their own.

BWAAAHAAHAA!! :evilgrin: