Ex-Wal-Mart VP Gets Six Months' Supervision for Wire Fraud

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.progressivegrocer.com/progressivegrocer/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002727918

JUNE 26, 2006 -- FORT SMITH, Ark. -- A former Wal-Mart v.p. of merchandising systems who had spent 20 years with the company was sentenced Friday to one day in prison and six months of supervised release for wire fraud convictions. He was also fined $3,000.

The former executive, Robert E. Hey Jr., pleaded guilty in November to three counts. He was accused of manipulating invoices to embezzle money for his boss, former Wal-Mart vice chairman Thomas Coughlin. Prosecutors say that over a period of seven years, Hey wrote fake vouchers to get money and Wal-Mart gift cards, which he later gave to Coughlin.

Coughlin pleaded guilty in January to five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing a false tax return. He is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 11.

<edit> supervised release? I feel sooo sorry for him.. NOT

[acmejack]

1. It disgusts me what these punks get away with!

We get hard time for anything, these guys rip off millions and get a slap on the hand. What fucking bullshit. The lack of justice in the Justice system is going to cause problems someday sooner rather than later. It doesn't raise a red flag to these people that the US with something like 7% of the Worlds population has 50% of the World's prisoners. And when one considers the racial composition of that prison population, they should be very alarmed!

[The Sushi Bandit]

2. I thought there would be more outrage!

They are trying to brush this under the rug!