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Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart After Top-Level Struggle
But the person most responsible, he told Mr. Torres-Landa, was the company's ambitious chief executive, Eduardo Castro-Wright, a native of Ecuador who was recruited from Honeywell in 2001 to become Wal-Mart's chief operating officer in Mexico.
Mr. Cicero said that while bribes were occasionally paid before Mr. Castro-Wright's arrival, their use soared after Mr. Castro-Wright ascended to the top job in 2002.
Mr. Cicero described how Wal-Mart de Mexico's leaders had set "very aggressive growth goals," which required opening new stores "in record times." Wal-Mart de Mexico executives, he said, were under pressure to do "whatever was necessary" to obtain permits.
In an interview with The Times, Mr. Cicero said Mr. Castro-Wright had encouraged the payments for a specific strategic purpose. The idea, he said, was to build hundreds of new stores so fast that competitors would not have time to react. Bribes, he explained, accelerated growth. They got zoning maps changed. They made environmental objections vanish. Permits that typically took months to process magically materialized in days. "What we were buying was time," he said.
Wal-Mart de Mexico's stunning growth made Mr. Castro-Wright a rising star in Bentonville. In early 2005, when he was promoted to a senior position in the United States, Mr. Duke would cite his "outstanding results" in Mexico.
Mr. Cicero's allegations were all the more startling because he implicated himself. He spent hours explaining to Mr. Torres-Landa the mechanics of how he had helped funnel bribes through trusted fixers, known as "gestores."
Gestores (pronounced hes-TORE-ehs) are a fixture in Mexico's byzantine bureaucracies, and some are entirely legitimate. Ordinary citizens routinely pay gestores to stand in line for them at the driver's license office. Companies hire them as quasi-lobbyists to get things done as painlessly as possible.
But often gestores play starring roles in Mexico's endless loop of public corruption scandals. They operate in the shadows, dangling payoffs to officials of every rank. It was this type of gestor that Wal-Mart de Mexico deployed, Mr. Cicero said.
Mr. Cicero told Mr. Torres-Landa it was his job to recruit the gestores. He worked closely with them, sharing strategies on whom to bribe. He also approved Wal-Mart de Mexico's payments to the gestores. Each payment covered the bribe and the gestor's fee, typically 6 percent of the bribe.
It was all carefully monitored through a system of secret codes known only to a handful of Wal-Mart de Mexico executives.
The gestores submitted invoices with brief, vaguely worded descriptions of their services. But the real story, Mr. Cicero said, was told in codes written on the invoices. The codes identified the specific "irregular act" performed, Mr. Cicero explained to Mr. Torres-Landa. One code, for example, indicated a bribe to speed up a permit. Others described bribes to obtain confidential information or eliminate fines.
Each month, Mr. Castro-Wright and other top Wal-Mart de Mexico executives "received a detailed schedule of all of the payments performed," he said, according to the lawyer's notes. Wal-Mart de Mexico then "purified" the bribes in accounting records as simple legal fees.
They also took care to keep Bentonville in the dark. "Dirty clothes are washed at home," Mr. Cicero said.
Mr. Torres-Landa explored Mr. Cicero's motives for coming forward.
Mr. Cicero said he resigned in September 2004 because he felt underappreciated. He described the "pressure and stress" of participating in years of corruption, of contending with "greedy" officials who jacked up bribe demands.
As he told The Times, "I thought I deserved a medal at least."
The breaking point came in early 2004, when he was passed over for the job of general counsel of Wal-Mart de Mexico. This snub, Mr. Torres-Landa wrote, "generated significant anger with respect to the lack of recognition for his work." Mr. Cicero said he began to assemble a record of bribes he had helped orchestrate to "protect him in case of any complaint or investigation," Mr. Torres-Landa wrote.
"We did not detect on his part any express statement about wishing to sell the information," the lawyer added.
According to people involved in Wal-Mart's investigation, Mr. Cicero's account of criminality at the top of Wal-Mart's most important foreign subsidiary was impossible to dismiss. He had clearly been in a position to witness the events he described. Nor was this the first indication of corruption at Wal-Mart de Mexico under Mr. Castro-Wright.
A confidential investigation, conducted for Wal-Mart in 2003 by Kroll Inc., a leading investigation firm, discovered that Wal-Mart de Mexico had systematically increased its sales by helping favored high-volume customers evade sales taxes.
A draft of Kroll's report, obtained by The Times, concluded that top Wal-Mart de Mexico executives had failed to enforce their own anticorruption policies, ignored internal audits that raised red flags and even disregarded local press accounts asserting that Wal-Mart de Mexico was "carrying out a tax fraud." (The company ultimately paid $34.3 million in back taxes.)
Wal-Mart then asked Kroll to evaluate Wal-Mart de Mexico's internal audit and antifraud units. Kroll wrote another report that branded the units "ineffective." Many employees accused of wrongdoing were not even questioned; some "received a promotion shortly after the suspicions of fraudulent activities had surfaced."
None of these findings, though, had slowed Mr. Castro-Wright's rise.
Just days before Mr. Cicero's first debriefing, Mr. Castro-Wright was promoted again. He was put in charge of all Wal-Mart stores in the United States, one of the most prominent jobs in the company. He also joined Wal-Mart's executive committee, the company's inner sanctum of leadership.
The Initial Response
Ms. Munich sent detailed memos describing Mr. Cicero's debriefings to Wal-Mart's senior management. These executives, records show, included Thomas A. Mars, Wal-Mart's general counsel and a former director of the Arkansas State Police; Thomas D. Hyde, Wal-Mart's executive vice president and corporate secretary; Michael Fung, Wal-Mart's top internal auditor; Craig Herkert, the chief executive for Wal-Mart's operations in Latin America; and Lee Stucky, a confidant of Lee Scott's and chief administrative officer of Wal-Mart International.
Wal-Mart typically hired outside law firms to lead internal investigations into allegations of significant wrongdoing. It did so earlier in 2005, for example, when Thomas M. Coughlin, then vice chairman of Wal-Mart, was accused of padding his expense accounts and misappropriating Wal-Mart gift cards.
At first, Wal-Mart took the same approach with Mr. Cicero's allegations. It turned to Willkie Farr & Gallagher, a law firm with extensive experience in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases.
The firm's "investigation work plan" called for tracing all payments to anyone who had helped Wal-Mart de Mexico obtain permits for the previous five years. The firm said it would scrutinize "any and all payments" to government officials and interview every person who might know about payoffs, including "implicated members" of Wal-Mart de Mexico's board.
In short, Willkie Farr recommended the kind of independent, spare-no-expense investigation major corporations routinely undertake when confronted with allegations of serious wrongdoing by top executives.
Wal-Mart's leaders rejected this approach. Instead, records show, they decided Wal-Mart's lawyers would supervise a far more limited "preliminary inquiry" by in-house investigators.
The inquiry, a confidential memo explained, would take two weeks, not the four months Willkie Farr proposed. Rather than examining years of permits, the team would look at a few specific stores. Interviews would be done "only when absolutely essential to establishing the bona fides" of Mr. Cicero. However, if the inquiry found a "likelihood" that laws had been violated, the company would then consider conducting a "full investigation."
The decision gave Wal-Mart's senior management direct control over the investigation. It also meant new responsibility for the company's tiny and troubled Corporate Investigations unit.
The unit was ill-equipped to take on a major corruption investigation, let alone one in Mexico. It had fewer than 70 employees, and most were assigned to chasing shoplifting rings and corrupt vendors. Just four people were specifically dedicated to investigating corporate fraud, a number Joseph R. Lewis, Wal-Mart's director of corporate investigations, described in a confidential memo as "wholly inadequate for an organization the size of Wal-Mart."
But Mr. Lewis and his boss, Kenneth H. Senser, vice president for global security, aviation and travel, were working to strengthen the unit. Months before Mr. Cicero surfaced, they won approval to hire four "special investigators" who, according to their job descriptions, would be assigned the "most significant and complex fraud matters." Mr. Scott, the chief executive, also agreed that Corporate Investigations would handle all allegations of misconduct by senior executives.
And yet in the fall of 2005, as Wal-Mart began to grapple with Mr. Cicero's allegations, two cases called into question Corporate Investigations' independence and role.
In October, Wal-Mart's vice chairman, John B. Menzer, intervened in an internal investigation into a senior vice president who reported to him. According to internal records, Mr. Menzer told Mr. Senser he did not want Corporate Investigations to handle the case "due to concerns about the impact such an investigation would have." One of the senior vice president's subordinates, he said, "would be better suited to conduct this inquiry." Soon after, records show, the subordinate cleared his boss.
The other case involved the president of Wal-Mart Puerto Rico. A whistle-blower had accused the president and other executives of mistreating employees. Although Corporate Investigations was supposed to investigate all allegations against senior executives, the president had instead assigned an underling to look into the complaints — but to steer clear of those against him.
Ms. Munich objected. In an e-mail to Wal-Mart executives, she complained that the investigation was "at the direction of the same company officer who is the target of several of the allegations."
"We are in need of clear guidelines about how to handle these issues going forward," she warned.
The Inquiry Begins
Ronald Halter, one of Wal-Mart's new "special investigators," was assigned to lead the preliminary inquiry into Mr. Cicero's allegations. Mr. Halter had been with Wal-Mart only a few months, but he was a seasoned criminal investigator. He had spent 21 years in the F.B.I., and he spoke Spanish.
He also had help. Bob Ainley, a senior auditor, was sent to Mexico along with several Spanish-speaking auditors.
On Nov. 12, 2005, Mr. Halter's team got to work at Wal-Mart de Mexico's corporate headquarters in Mexico City. The team gained access to a database of Wal-Mart de Mexico payments and began searching the payment description field for the word "gestoria."
By day's end, they had found 441 gestor payments. Each was a potential bribe, and yet they had searched back only to 2003.
Mr. Cicero had said his main gestores were Pablo Alegria Con Alonso and Jose Manuel Aguirre Juarez, obscure Mexico City lawyers with small practices who were friends of his from law school.
Sure enough, Mr. Halter's team found that nearly half the payments were to Mr. Alegria and Mr. Aguirre. These two lawyers alone, records showed, had received $8.5 million in payments. Records showed Wal-Mart de Mexico routinely paid its gestores tens of thousands of dollars per permit. (In interviews, both lawyers declined to discuss the corruption allegations, citing confidentiality agreements with Wal-Mart.)
"One very interesting postscript," Mr. Halter wrote in an e-mail to his boss, Mr. Lewis. "All payments to these individuals and all large sums of $ paid out of this account stopped abruptly in 2005." Mr. Halter said the "only thing we can find" that changed was that Mr. Castro-Wright left Wal-Mart de Mexico for the United States.
Mr. Halter's team confirmed detail after detail from Mr. Cicero's debriefings. Mr. Cicero had given specifics — names, dates, bribe amounts — for several new stores. In almost every case, investigators found documents confirming major elements of his account. And just as Mr. Cicero had described, investigators found mysterious codes at the bottom of invoices from the gestores.
"The documentation didn't look anything like what you would find in legitimate billing records from a legitimate law firm," a person involved in the investigation said in an interview.
Mr. Lewis sent a terse progress report to his boss, Mr. Senser: "FYI. It is not looking good."
Hours later, Mr. Halter's team found clear confirmation that Mr. Castro-Wright and other top executives at Wal-Mart de Mexico were well aware of the gestor payments.
In March 2004, the team discovered, the executives had been sent an internal Wal-Mart de Mexico audit that raised red flags about the gestor payments. The audit documented how Wal-Mart de Mexico's two primary gestores had been paid millions to make "facilitating payments" for new store permits all over Mexico.
The audit did not delve into how the money had been used to "facilitate" permits. But it showed the payments rising rapidly, roughly in line with Wal-Mart de Mexico's accelerating growth. The audit recommended notifying Bentonville of the payments.
The recommendation, records showed, was removed by Wal-Mart de Mexico's chief auditor, whom Mr. Cicero had identified as one of the executives who knew about the bribes. The author of the gestor audit, meanwhile, "was fired not long after the audit was completed," Mr. Halter wrote.
Mr. Ainley arranged to meet the fired auditor at his hotel. The auditor described other examples of Wal-Mart de Mexico's leaders withholding from Bentonville information about suspect payments to government officials.
The auditor singled out José Luis Rodríguezmacedo Rivera, the general counsel of Wal-Mart de Mexico.
Mr. Rodríguezmacedo, he said, took "significant information out" of an audit of Wal-Mart de Mexico's compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The original audit had described how Wal-Mart de Mexico gave gift cards to government officials in towns where it was building stores. "These were only given out until the construction was complete," Mr. Ainley wrote. "At which time the payments ceased."
These details were scrubbed from the final version sent to Bentonville.
Investigators were struck by Mr. Castro-Wright's response to the gestor audit. It had been shown to him immediately, Wal-Mart de Mexico's chief auditor had told them. Yet rather than expressing alarm, he had appeared worried about becoming too dependent on too few gestores. In an e-mail, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo told Mr. Cicero to write up a plan to "diversify" the gestores used to "facilitate" permits.
"Eduardo Castro wants us to implement this plan as soon as possible," he wrote.
Mr. Cicero did as directed. The plan, which authorized paying gestores up to $280,000 to "facilitate" a single permit, was approved with a minor change. Mr. Rodríguezmacedo did not want the plan to mention "gestores." He wanted them called "external service providers."
Mr. Halter's team made one last discovery — a finding that suggested the corruption might be far more extensive than even Mr. Cicero had described.
In going through Wal-Mart de Mexico's database of payments, investigators noticed the company was making hefty "contributions" and "donations" directly to governments all over Mexico — nearly $16 million in all since 2003.
"Some of the payments descriptions indicate that the donation is being made for the issuance of a license," Mr. Ainley wrote in one report back to Bentonville.
They also found a document in which a Wal-Mart de Mexico real estate executive had openly acknowledged that "these payments were performed to facilitate obtaining the licenses or permits" for new stores. Sometimes, Mr. Cicero told The Times, donations were used hand-in-hand with gestor payments to get permits.
Deflecting Blame
When Mr. Halter's team was ready to interview executives at Wal-Mart de Mexico, the first target was Mr. Rodríguezmacedo.
Before joining Wal-Mart de Mexico in January 2004, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo had been a lawyer for Citigroup in Mexico. Urbane and smooth, with impeccable English, he quickly won fans in Bentonville. When Wal-Mart invited executives from its foreign subsidiaries for several days of discussion about the fine points of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo was asked to lead one of the sessions.
It was called "Overcoming Challenges in Government Dealings."
Yet Mr. Cicero had identified him as a participant in the bribery scheme. In his debriefings, Mr. Cicero described how Mr. Rodríguezmacedo had passed along specific payoff instructions from Mr. Castro-Wright. In an interview with The Times, Mr. Cicero said he and Mr. Rodríguezmacedo had discussed the use of gestores shortly after Mr. Rodríguezmacedo was hired. "He said, 'Don't worry. Keep it on its way.' "
Mr. Rodríguezmacedo declined to comment; on Friday Wal-Mart disclosed that he had been reassigned and is no longer Wal-Mart de Mexico's general counsel.
Mr. Halter's team hoped Mr. Rodríguezmacedo would shed light on how two outside lawyers came to be paid $8.5 million to "facilitate" permits. Mr. Rodríguezmacedo responded with evasive hostility, records and interviews show. When investigators asked him for the gestores' billing records, he said he did not have time to track them down. They got similar receptions from other executives.
Only after investigators complained to higher authorities were the executives more forthcoming. Led by Mr. Rodríguezmacedo, they responded with an attack on Mr. Cicero's credibility.
The gestor audit, they told investigators, had raised doubts about Mr. Cicero, since he had approved most of the payments. They began to suspect he was somehow benefiting, so they asked Kroll to investigate. It was then, they asserted, that Kroll discovered Mr. Cicero's wife was a law partner of one of the gestores.
Mr. Cicero was fired, they said, because he had failed to disclose that fact. They produced a copy of a "preliminary" report from Kroll and e-mails showing the undisclosed conflict had been reported to Bentonville.
Based on this behavior, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo argued, the gestor payments were in all likelihood a "ruse" by Mr. Cicero to defraud Wal-Mart de Mexico. Mr. Cicero and the gestores, he contended, probably kept every last peso of the "facilitating payments."
Simply put, bribes could not have been paid if the money was stolen first.
It was an argument that gave Wal-Mart ample justification to end the inquiry. But investigators were skeptical, records and interviews show.
Even if Mr. Rodríguezmacedo's account were true, it did not explain why Wal-Mart de Mexico's executives had authorized gestor payments in the first place, or why they made "donations" to get permits, or why they rewrote audits to keep Bentonville in the dark.
Investigators also wondered why a trained lawyer who had gotten away with stealing a small fortune from Wal-Mart would now deliberately draw the company's full attention by implicating himself in a series of fictional bribes. And if Wal-Mart de Mexico's executives truly believed they had been victimized, why hadn't they taken legal action against Mr. Cicero, much less reported the "theft" to Bentonville?
There was another problem: Documents contradicted most of the executives' assertions about Mr. Cicero.
Records showed Mr. Cicero had not been fired, but had resigned with severance benefits and a $25,000 bonus. In fact, in a 2004 e-mail to Ms. Munich, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo himself described how he had "negotiated" Mr. Cicero's "departure."
The same e-mail said Mr. Cicero had not even been confronted about the supposed undisclosed conflict involving his wife. (Mr. Cicero flatly denied that his wife had ever worked with either gestor.) The e-mail also assured Ms. Munich there was no hint of financial wrongdoing. "We see it merely as an undisclosed conflict of interest," Mr. Rodríguezmacedo wrote.
There were other discrepancies.
Mr. Rodríguezmacedo said the company had stopped using gestores after Mr. Cicero's departure. Yet even as Mr. Cicero was being debriefed in October 2005, Wal-Mart de Mexico real estate executives made a request to pay a gestor $14,000 to get a construction permit, records showed.
The persistent questions and document requests from Mr. Halter's team provoked a backlash from Wal-Mart de Mexico's executives. After a week of work, records and interviews show, Mr. Halter and other members of the team were summoned by Eduardo F. Solórzano Morales, then chief executive of Wal-Mart de Mexico.
Mr. Solórzano angrily chastised the investigators for being too secretive and accusatory. He took offense that his executives were being told at the start of interviews that they had the right not to answer questions — as if they were being read their rights.
"It was like, 'You shut up. I'm going to talk,' " a person said of Mr. Solórzano. "It was, 'This is my home, my backyard. You are out of here.' "
Mr. Lewis viewed the complaints as an effort to sidetrack his investigators. "I find this ludicrous and a copout for the larger concerns about what has been going on," he wrote.
Nevertheless, Mr. Herkert, the chief executive for Latin America, was notified about the complaints. Three days later, he and his boss, Mr. Duke, flew to Mexico City. The trip had been long-planned — Mr. Duke toured several stores — but they also reassured Wal-Mart de Mexico's unhappy executives.
They arrived just as the investigators wrapped up their work and left.
A Push to Dig Deeper
Wal-Mart's leaders had agreed to consider a full investigation if the preliminary inquiry found Mr. Cicero's allegations credible.
Back in Bentonville, Mr. Halter and Mr. Ainley wrote confidential reports to Wal-Mart's top executives in December 2005 laying out all the evidence that corroborated Mr. Cicero — the hundreds of gestor payments, the mystery codes, the rewritten audits, the evasive responses from Wal-Mart de Mexico executives, the donations for permits, the evidence gestores were still being used.
"There is reasonable suspicion," Mr. Halter concluded, "to believe that Mexican and USA laws have been violated." There was simply "no defendable explanation" for the millions of dollars in gestor payments, he wrote.
Mr. Halter submitted an "action plan" for a deeper investigation that would plumb the depths of corruption and culpability at Wal-Mart de Mexico.
Among other things, he urged "that all efforts be concentrated on the reconstruction of Cicero's computer history."
Mr. Cicero, meanwhile, was still offering help. In November, when Mr. Halter's team was in Mexico, Mr. Cicero offered his services as a paid consultant. In December, he wrote to Ms. Munich. He volunteered to share specifics on still more stores, and he promised to show her documents. "I hope you visit again," he wrote.
Mr. Halter proposed a thorough investigation of the two main gestores. He had not tried to interview them in Mexico for fear of his safety. ("I do not want to expose myself on what I consider to be an unrealistic attempt to get Mexican lawyers to admit to criminal activity," he had explained to his bosses.) Now Mr. Halter wanted Wal-Mart to hire private investigators to interview and monitor both gestores.
He also envisioned a round of adversarial interviews with Wal-Mart de Mexico's senior executives. He and his investigators argued that it was time to take the politically sensitive step of questioning Mr. Castro-Wright about his role in the gestor payments.
By January 2006, the case had reached a critical juncture. Wal-Mart's leaders were again weighing whether to approve a full investigation that would inevitably focus on a star executive already being publicly discussed as a potential successor to Mr. Scott.
Wal-Mart's ethics policy offered clear direction. "Never cover up or ignore an ethics problem," the policy states. And some who were involved in the investigation argued that it was time to take a stand against signs of rising corruption in Wal-Mart's global operations. Each year the company received hundreds of internal reports of bribery and fraud, records showed. In Asia alone, there had been 90 reports of bribery just in the previous 18 months.
The situation was bad enough that Wal-Mart's top procurement executives were summoned to Bentonville that winter for a dressing down. Mr. Menzer, Wal-Mart's vice chairman, warned them that corruption was creating an unacceptable risk, particularly given the government's stepped-up enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. "Times have changed," he said.
As if to underscore the problem, Wal-Mart's leaders were confronted with new corruption allegations at Wal-Mart de Mexico even as they pondered Mr. Halter's action plan. In January, Mr. Scott, Mr. Duke and Wal-Mart's chairman, S. Robson Walton, received an anonymous e-mail saying Wal-Mart de Mexico's top real estate executives were receiving kickbacks from construction companies. "Please you must do something," the e-mail implored.
Yet at the same time, records and interviews show, there were misgivings about the budding reach and power of Corporate Investigations.
In less than a year, Mr. Lewis's beefed-up team had doubled its caseload, to roughly 400 cases a year. Some executives grumbled that Mr. Lewis acted as if he still worked for the F.B.I., where he had once supervised major investigations.
They accused him and his investigators of being overbearing, disruptive and naïve about the moral ambiguities of doing business abroad. They argued that Corporate Investigations should focus more on quietly "neutralizing" problems than on turning corrupt employees over to law enforcement.
Wal-Mart's leaders had just witnessed the downside of that approach: in early 2005, the company went to the F.B.I. with evidence that the disgraced former vice chairman, Mr. Coughlin, had embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars. The decision produced months of embarrassing publicity, especially when Mr. Coughlin claimed he had used the money to pay off union spies for Wal-Mart.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart de Mexico executives were continuing to complain to Bentonville about the investigation. The protests "just never let up," a person involved in the case said.
Another person familiar with the thinking of those overseeing the investigation said Wal-Mart would have reacted "like a chicken on a June bug" had the allegations concerned the United States. But some executives saw Mexico as a country where bribery was embedded in the business culture. It simply did not merit the same response.
"It's a Mexican issue; it's better to let it be a Mexican response," the person said, describing the thinking of Wal-Mart executives.
In the midst of this debate, Ms. Munich submitted her resignation, effective Feb. 1, 2006. In one of her final acts, she drafted a memo that argued for expanding the Mexico investigation and giving equal respect to Mexican and United States laws.
"The bribery of government officials," she noted dryly, "is a criminal offense in Mexico."
She also warned against allowing implicated executives to interfere with the investigation. Wal-Mart de Mexico's executives had already tried to insert themselves in the case. Just before Christmas, records show, Mr. Solórzano, the Wal-Mart de Mexico chief executive, held a video conference with Mr. Mars, Mr. Senser and Mr. Stucky to discuss his team's "hypothesis" that Mr. Cicero had stolen gestor payments.
"Given the serious nature of the allegations, and the need to preserve the integrity of the investigation," Ms. Munich wrote, "it would seem more prudent to develop a follow-up plan of action, independent of Walmex management participation."
The Chief Weighs In
Mr. Scott called a meeting for Feb. 3, 2006, to discuss revamping Wal-Mart's internal investigations and to resolve the question of what to do about Mr. Cicero's allegations.
In the days before the meeting, records show, Mr. Senser ordered his staff to compile data showing the effectiveness of Corporate Investigations. He assembled statistics showing that the unit had referred relatively few cases to law enforcement agencies. He circulated copies of an e-mail in which Mr. Rodríguezmacedo said he had been treated "very respectfully and cordially" by Mr. Senser's investigators.
Along with Mr. Scott, the meeting included Mr. Hyde, Mr. Mars and Mr. Stucky, records show. The meeting brought the grievances against Corporate Investigations into the open. Mr. Senser described the complaints in Mr. Lewis's performance evaluation, completed shortly after the meeting. Wal-Mart's leaders viewed Mr. Lewis's investigators as "overly aggressive," he wrote. They did not care for Mr. Lewis's "law enforcement approach," and the fact that Mr. Scott convened a meeting to express these concerns only underscored "the importance placed on these topics by senior executives."
By meeting's end, Mr. Senser had been ordered to work with Mr. Mars and others to develop a "modified protocol" for internal investigations.
Mr. Scott said he wanted it done fast, and within 24 hours Mr. Senser produced a new protocol, a highly bureaucratic process that gave senior Wal-Mart executives — including executives at the business units being investigated — more control over internal investigations. The policy included multiple "case reviews." It also required senior executives to conduct a "cost-benefit analysis" before signing off on a full-blown investigation.
Under the new protocol, Mr. Lewis and his team would only investigate "significant" allegations, like those involving potential crimes or top executives. Lesser allegations would be left to the affected business unit to investigate.
"This captures it, I think," Mr. Hyde wrote when Mr. Senser sent him the new protocol.
Four days after Mr. Scott's meeting, with the new protocol drafted, Wal-Mart's leaders began to transfer control of the bribery investigation to one of its earliest targets, Mr. Rodríguezmacedo.


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You don't hear anything about impure thoughts these days, but I spent all the waking hours of my teenage years trying not to have them. I failed, of course. I failed in every hour of every day of every one of those years. In fact, from the time I was about 13 until sometime in the Carter Administration I hardly had any other kind of thoughts.
I can still recapture some of those sinful images from that distant time, and while I am hardly about to share them with you, I will tell you that some of them were well worth spending a little time in hell for. And if it turns out that hell is just a bad hotel with lumpy beds and a surly concierge, well, maybe a couple of weeks there would be a small price to pay for all those wonderful thoughts.
I imagine if you were to ask today's average 14-year-old boy how he was coping with impure thoughts, he would regard you as a deranged mutant cockroach and try to kill you with bug spray. You see, in today's anything-goes world teenage boys -- I don't know about teenage girls -- are simply unaware of the mortal moral danger they face from what they would call natural erotic impulses, but what are, as we were so well taught, unchaste, unclean, unnatural, unacceptable, immoral, amoral, soul-corroding impure thoughts.
Even thinking about impure thoughts has me looking over my shoulder to see if Father McTorquemada is following behind, he all-knowing, he who can tell just from the skulking look of me, from my craven slithery posture, that I am in the middle of thinking, or have just finished thinking, or, worst of all, am planning to think -- an impure thought.
At this late date it is hard even to get my mind around the idea of impure thoughts, but I can remember exactly what it felt like to have given in to them: shame and fear leading to wretchedness verging on despair. This was what it was to be among the fallen, to have been cast down into darkness with the other loathsome condemned.
My wife, on the other hand, who was also raised a Catholic, is bemused by the whole notion of the impure thought. "It seems to me," she says philosophically, "that there is no such thing as an impure thought." I think she is on to something here, but where was she when I needed her?
"I assume you're talking about sex," she continues. "But where does the idea of impure thinking come from? What's impure about sex? And what can possibly be impure about thinking about it?"
Is she kidding? Which Church did she grow up in? Where I came from, everybody knew that sex started out bad and only got worse. Maybe the only thing worse than sex was thinking about it. Sex was the way to perdition, a one-way pass to the netherworld. Keep thinking about sex and the only place you're going is hell, with a possible stop along the way at the loony bin.
And people say there is no difference between the sexes! It turns out that girls didn't spend their teenage years defending themselves against impure thoughts. You know why? Because they didn't have impure thoughts. At least that's what my wife says, and given her demonstrated wisdom on the subject, I choose to believe every word she says. Of course girls thought about boys, but not in that way, says my wife upon whose every word I hang. Girls' reveries that included boys tended to have a romantic coloration. Otherwise, says my wife, girls thought about books they were reading, or their friends, or horseback riding, or basketball, or their parents and brothers and sisters, or conjugating Latin verbs.
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West leads the Q♠ and, when Dummy goes down, Declarer can see that his 6♥ contract is quite hopeless. The A♣ must be lost, and there is no way to avoid a Diamond loser. Declarer will win the opening Spade, draw trumps and then cash the K♦ and A♦ before conceding the third round of Diamonds. When West wins the J♦, he will quickly shift to a Club, and East's A♣ scores the setting trick before Declarer's Clubs disappear on the long Diamonds. Down one.
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As a Freshman in 2013|Stats : Recipient of the James H. Fullerton Memorial Trophy as Brown's Rookie of the Year … One of seven Bears to play in all 36 games, Naclerio was Brown's top center throughout the season … Finished second on the team in scoring with 23 points and was tied for second with 17 assists … Scored one power play goal, one short-handed goal and two game-winning goals … Was also +3 for the season and had 2-11-13 totals in ECAC Hockey contests … Tallied at least one point in 17 games, including five multi-point outings … Earned 2-6-8 totals in seven playoff games … Named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on February 26th after helping lead Brown to a three-point weekend at Princeton (W, 4-1) and #1 Quinnipiac (T, 3-3) … Posted four points on the weekend, including a career-high three pints (1g, 2a) in the win over Princeton, assisting Brown's two first period goals, including the game-winner, and scoring an empty net goal … The next night as Brown rallied from a late 3-1 deficit to tie the Bobcats, Naclerio had the primary assist on the Bears' second goal, which brought the team to within 3-2 with 2:16 left in regulation … Finished the weekend with a +5 rating and also won 17 total faceoffs … Recorded his first career point with an assist on the goal that tied the game at 2-2 in 3-3 tie with Clarkson … Scored his first career goal, the game-winner, in 3-2 come-from-behind win over Holy Cross, named 1st Star … Won what was then a career-high 10 faceoffs in 2-2 tie with RPI … Scored a short-handed goal to bring Brown to within 2-1 late in the third period and also won 11 of 14 faceoffs against #18 Minnesota State … Won 12 of 17 faceoffs the next night in 7-2 win over AIC … Notched a pair of assists, including one on Harlow's game-winning goal, in 3-2 victory at Clarkson; Was also 12 of 15 in the faceoff circle … Went 11 of 15 in faceoffs the next night at St. Lawrence … Was 11 of 15 in faceoffs, winning at least 10 draws for the sixth straight game, against #11 Dartmouth … Tallied an assist on Harlow's goal in 2-1 loss at Colgate … Earned another assist, on the game-winning goal, the next night in 3-0 shutout at #18 Cornell … Posted a point for the third straight game with an assist on Pfeil's goal in 1-1 tie with #2 Quinnipiac … Tied his career-high with two assists in 5-1 win over Princeton … Won a career-high 16 faceoffs in 1-0 victory over #9 Yale … Scored his fourth goal of the year and earned a point for the third straight game to get Brown on the board against Cornell; named 3rd Star … Scored the game-winning goal, his first career power play goal, to help lift Brown to a 3-0 win over Clarkson in game one of ECAC First Round; Also added an assist on Lorito's goal, earning 2nd Star honors … Notched an assist on Lorito's power play goal, giving Brown a 1-0 lead in 4-3 win over Clarkson as Brown swept the First Round series; also won a career-high 17 faceoffs … Scored an empty net goal with 10 seconds left in regulation to help clinch a 3-1 win over RPI in game one of ECAC Quarterfinals … Tallied an assist on Lappin's game-winning goal, which gave Brown a 3-0 lead early in the second period, in 3-2 win over #16 RPI in game three of the Quarterfinals, while helping the Bears advance to the Semifinals for the first time since 2010; Also won 14 of 26 faceoffs … Matched a career-high with two assists, including one of the game-winner, in 4-0 victory over #1 Quinnipiac in ECAC Semifinals, helping Brown advance to the Championship game for the first time since 1993; also won 18 of 28 faceoffs and was named 3rd Star … Earned an assist on Robertson's power play goal in Championship game against #18 Union.
Before Brown: Spent the 2011-12 season playing for the Waterloo Black Hawks of the United States Hockey League (USHL) … Appeared in 50 regular season games for the Black Hawks, scoring 14 goals and registering 28 assists, a number that had him ranked in the top 25 for assists in the USHL … Played a key role in the Black Hawks' run for the Clark Cup, earning 8 points (3g, 5a), a total that ranked among the top ten in the league for playoff scoring … Recipient of the 2012 "Unsung Hero" award for Waterloo … Played hockey at Avon Old Farms from 2008-2011, captaining the team during the 2010-2011 season … Recorded 94 points (36g, 58a) in 81 career games played at the school and was honored as MVP for a season … Helped lead the team to the 2010 New England Prep School Championship Title … Named to the All-New England Prep School Team during his senior season with Avon.
Personal: Mark Allan Naclerio is the son of Joseph and Holly Naclerio of Bridgeport, Connecticut … Has two brothers, Craig, a student at UConn, and Eric, a student at Connecticut College … Was a member of the National Honor Society, earned a spot on the Dean's List for three years and was also selected for the Headmaster's List at Avon Old Farms … A member of the Order of Old Farms and a recipient of the Yale Book Award … Also played a year of JV lacrosse and a year of JV baseball while at Avon … Works as a camp counselor for youth hockey camps during the summer … Interests: Going to the beach, reading and playing golf … Concentration: Undeclared.
Naclerio's Career Highs
Goals: 1, 6x, last at RPI (3/15/13)
Assists: 2, 4x, last vs. Quinnipiac (3/22/13)
Points: 3, at Princeton (2/22/13)
PPG: 1, vs. Clarkson (3/8/13)
SHG: 1, vs. Minnesota State (12/29/12)
Shots: 3, 8x, last at RPI (3/15/13)
Blocked Shots: 4,2x, last vs. Yale (2/12/13)
Faceoff Wins: 18, vs. Quinnipiac (3/22/13)
Faceoff Winning %: .800, at Clarkson (1/11/13)
Naclerio's Career Stats | ||||||||||
GP | G | A | PTS | PPG | SHG | GWG | BLK | +/- | Pen/Min | |
2012-2013 | 36 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 28 | +3 | 8/16 |


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Sandpiper Studio at Sand Dollar Cottages in Manasota Key
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- pets allowed yes
- type Studio
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$ 1,050 - $ 1,600 / month
vacation rental description
Experience the old Florida lifestyle when you book your stay at the Sand Dollar Cottages. Our studio unit is great if you want to save on the budget and still stay in a great place. The units are located just 500 yards down the street from the beach. The foliage-filled property also has a private courtyard for guests with patio and grill. We are pet friendly so you can bring your pets and not worry about leaving them at home. It is fully furnished and stocked with everything from bed & shower linens and beach towels & chairs to kitchen cooking tools and utensils. Just grab your bathing suit, and stroll on over for a tropical stay!
studio rental amenities
All included in the price:
Wireless Internet
King Size Bed
Coffee Maker
Kitchen with stove, microwave, and refrigerator
activities and attractions in Manasota Key Gulf Coast South
All of these fun things are less than 20 miles away; Tampa Bay Rays Spring Training, The World Famous Warm Mineral Springs, and Tarpon Fishing at Boca Grande. A little further away is the Ringling Museum in Sarasota or the Baltimore Orioles Spring Training facilities.


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Cigarette tax jumps on Monday in Minnesota
Jody Meyers plans to quit smoking on Monday. She's not entirely thrilled about the idea. "They're trying to raise taxes on everything, and it just seems like they're taking it out on the poor people," the Duluth woman said on Thursday as she smoked a cigarette while waiting for a bus on Superior Street. "Because the cigarettes are going up, now I have to quit smoking."By: John Lundy, Duluth News Tribune
Jody Meyers plans to quit smoking on Monday.
She's not entirely thrilled about the idea.
"They're trying to raise taxes on everything, and it just seems like they're taking it out on the poor people," the Duluth woman said on Thursday as she smoked a cigarette while waiting for a bus on Superior Street.
"Because the cigarettes are going up, now I have to quit smoking."
Meyers, 39, was referring to the $1.60-per-pack increase on the cigarette tax that takes effect Monday in Minnesota. The increase, approved by the state Legislature this year, will bring the total tax to $2.83 per pack (20 cigarettes), sixth-highest in the nation.
Her decision to quit is exactly what health advocates want.
"We know the impact from other states (that have increased cigarette taxes)," Pat McKone, director of mission programs for the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest, said. "People who smoke will take the opportunity to quit. We know for sure that it will reduce the amount of youths who start smoking."
The increase is expected to bring a little more than $400 million additional revenue to the state general fund in the fiscal year that begins Monday, according to Minnesota Department of Revenue estimates. That takes into account an expected 64 million reduction in the number of packs sold, to 160 million. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the American Cancer Society estimate the pricier cigarettes will prevent 47,000 kids from starting to smoke and help 36,600 current smokers quit.
Tobacco retailers and their customers are bracing for the impact.
Outside the Super America convenience store at St. Marie Street and Woodland Avenue, a sign that slightly overstates the tax increase urges customers to "buy today."
Mike Kasapidis, manager of Cigs for Less in West Duluth, said he isn't advertising, but many of his customers are well-aware of the tax hike.
"Oh, yeah," Kasapidis said. "A lot of people are stocking up."
Kasapidis said he stands to lose business from Wisconsin, where the tax of $2.52 per pack has made it worthwhile for smokers to cross the bridge for cheaper cigarettes. He estimated 50 percent of the customers in his Grand Avenue store come from Wisconsin.
Mike Waz, manager of the Smoke Shop on West Central Entrance, said about 30 percent of his customers are from Wisconsin.
"That's going to be a huge loss for us, truthfully," Waz said. "We're going to try to adjust."
Kasapidis said that with added fees, the actual increase will be close to $1.90 per pack. The price for a middle-of-the road carton (10 packs) of cigarettes now is $50, he said. That will go up to $69.
Waz and Kasapidis said some of their customers have been stocking up on cigarettes. But Jan Jacobson, 70, said she hasn't done that because if she had extra cigarettes, she would smoke them.
The West Duluth woman, who said she smokes a little less than a pack a day, doesn't plan to change her smoking habits. But she's angry about the tax increase.
"I think it's way too much," Jacobson said. "That's a very big jump in the price. … Why do you have to pick on the smokers?"
Blaine Cox, 36, who was waiting for a bus across the street from Meyer, was only vaguely aware of the coming tax hike. When told the amount, Cox said, "That's kind of unreasonable."
Cox, who smokes about a pack a day, said he probably wouldn't change his habits, either. "I'm definitely buying the ones on sale," Cox said.
Jacobson said she also was angry that cigarette tax revenue would go toward the new Vikings stadium.
She was referring to a one-time floor-stock tax on stock the retailers have in their stores when the increase goes into effect. That's expected to generate $30.5 million, but no more than $26.5 million would go toward the stadium, said Ryan Brown, a Minnesota Department of Revenue spokesman. Everything else will go into the general fund.
The floor-stock tax was earmarked for the stadium because of the "slow growth" of electronic pulltab games intended to provide some of the state's share, Brown said.
Meyers, who said she smokes at least a pack a day, said she hates the tax.
"(Smoking) is the one stress-reliever that I have in my life because I don't drink," she said. "I figure if they want to go after something, go after the people who drink."
On reflection, though, she said it might turn out to be a good thing.
"I've been wanting to quit for years but I haven't been able to, and it's like I'm going to be quitting cold turkey now," Meyers said. "And it's going to be really hard, but I'm going to give it a shot."
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For Sean Ulley, the owner Smokehouse Barbecue in Somerville, grilling meats is a family tradition; his father runs his own barbecue joint in Andover. To infuse ribs, brisket, and pulled pork with deep flavor, Sean seasons the cuts with a dry rub and smoke them for up to 17 hours—as deliciously described in the Somerville Today. The cooks also make good use of their fryer, deep-frying everything from corn on the cob to Oreos. Patrons can also opt for fried chicken, burgers, or Creole dishes such as the Louisiana Steampot—a medley of clams, mussels, crawfish, and shrimp served over rice and garnished with a strand of sautéed Mardi Gras beads. In the summer and spring, diners can head to an outdoor patio to eat in the warmth of the sun.
When most people hear "fondue," they think of a warm pot of cheese. While that might be the most popular variety of the dish, Melting Pot also specializes in less well-known fondues. A simmering pot of broth in the center of the table can cook nuggets of meat or vegetables that diners hold there, a method of eating that's very conducive to dinner-table conversation and sharing. The chefs at Melting Pot have adapted these techniques to ingredients from around the world, filling their kitchen with everything from lobster tails and curry to ravioli and teriyaki glazes.
The seas have been the frontier of some of humanity's greatest travels and the source of some of its most delicious food. Savor Restaurant's chefs celebrate the sea's diversity of flavors with a robust menu of oceanic treats. At their raw bar, they prepare fresh shellfish such as oysters or clams on the half shell for consumption in their naturally briny juices. They augment the flavor of other seameats, searing Atlantic salmon in sherry wine sauce or baking tender cod with fresh herbs and roasted potatoes. Savor's culinary crew also a crafts a number of authentic pasta dishes, including wild mushroom ravioli and seafarer-friendly zuppa di pesce, served with clams, mussels, shrimp, scallops, and eye patch.
Since its humble south Philadelphia beginnings in the 1990s, Primo Hoagies has quickly expanded throughout the region and garnered several awards on the strength of its cold-cut sandwiches, made with Thumann's brand of gourmet meats and cheeses. The shop's robust menu features dozens of specialty hoagies, such as the Bada Bing, Bada Boom, and Schwartzie, many of which were created in-house rather than underwater, as is the industry norm. Sharp Italian hoagies teem with prosciutto and genoa salami, and pork Diablo hoagies marry Thumann's homestyle roasted pork with a blend of piquant spices.


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Up, up and away ... to Bright Night of Superheroes, an evening of science discovery for caped crusaders, masked marvels and winged avengers. Come dressed as your favorite superhero (you know, your average weekend attire) and enjoy a night of hands-on action 6 p.m. to midnight Friday at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 NE 52nd St. Admission is $45 per child, $25 per adult. Call 602-3760, or visit sciencemuseumok.org.
If you like your "trick or treat" heavy on the "treat," then treat yo'self at Midwest City Parks and Recreation's Trick or Treat City. The family-friendly fun takes place 2-4:30 p.m. Saturday at Joe B. Barnes Regional Park, 8700 E. Reno Ave. in Midwest City. Admission is free. Call 739-1293, or visit midwestcity.org.
It's starting to feel like autumn (maybe even winter) out there, and you know what that means. Shopping season! Specifically crafts, antiques, clothes and jewelry shopping season. If you like these things (and really, who doesn't?), check out An Affair of the Heart Friday through Sunday at State Fair Park, 3001 General Pershing Blvd. Call 632-2652, or visit aaoth.com.
You know what else autumn is the season of? Outdoor food festivals like Fall Fest, which features vendor booths, live music, fun for kids and, yes, food trucks. Festivities run 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday at the OKC Farmers Public Market, 1235 SW Second St. Admission is free. Call 232-6506, or visit okcfarmersmarket.com.
They don't just give away nicknames like The Red Rocker; they have to be earned. Sammy Hagar has been "Livin' It Up" with "Heavy Metal" and "Mas Tequila," so the dude is a bona fide rock star (dressed in red, get it?). See the former Van Halen frontman with The Wabos, Tom Keifer and more, starting 7 p.m. Saturday at Grand Casino Hotel and Resort, 777 Grand Casino Blvd. in Shawnee. Tickets are $45-$75. Call 964-7777 or visit grandshawnee.com.
Some horror tales are forgotten (Sharknado, anyone?), while others endure. Considering Euripides died some 2400 years ago, his disturbing tragedy Medea qualifies as the latter. The OKC Theatre Company will resurrect the ancient production at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave. Tickets are $10. Call 297-2584 or visit okctheatrecompany.org.
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Claude Chalhoub is a better violinist than you. That's not a dig. Chalhoub is kind of a big deal. The world-renowned virtuoso will perform his original compositions with UCO students at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday in Mitchell Hall Theater, University Drive and Main Street on The University of Central Oklahoma Campus in Edmond. Tickets are $4-$14. Call 974-3375 or visit click4tix.com/uco.
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Do you like to laugh out loud? Then check out Opolis Comedy Night, featuring comedic whiz kid James Nghiem as he releases his new album That Lonely Beast. Other performers include Cameron Buchholtz, Ryan Drake, Jeramy Westbrook and more. Laughs commence 9 p.m. Thursday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford in Norman. Admission is $5. Visit opolis.org.
After his untimely death almost a decade ago, Elliott Smith has proven to be one of the most influential songwriters of a generation. In honor of his life and music, a number of local musicians — including Ricky Salthouse, Ryan Lindsey, Josh Jones and many others — will perform A Tribute to Elliott Smith. The music starts 8 p.m. Friday at Opolis, 113 N. Crawford in Norman. Admission is $5. Visit opolis.org.
Ghosts are real, you guys. At least they are at at the Edmond Historic Preservation Trust's Historic Ghost Tours, with local actors playing the part of Edmond's founding fathers at each individual's gravesite. The tours begin Friday and Saturday evening at Gracelawn Cemetery, Danforth Road and Boulevard Street in Edmond. Tickets are $7. Call 285-9700.
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"Prana" refers to the life force that comes from the sun and connects all elements of the universe. You know, like, energy and stuff. Feel it throughout your body at Embrace Your Rhythm: Prana Yoga Flow with Cari Wallenberg. The class is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at The Mat's Edge, 722 N. Broadway Ave. Local singersongwriter Anna Kinder will provide live music. Admission is $20. Visit matsedge.com.
Winter has that whole wonderland thing goin' for it, but what about autumn? Pumpkinville seeks to fill that void with a celebration of all things fall: scarecrows, straw creatures and a good 3,000 pumpkins or so. The seasonal display starts at 10 a.m. Friday and runs through Oct. 31 at Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno Ave. Admission is free for members, and $5 per child or $3 per adult for nonmembers. Call 445-7080 or visit myriadgardens.org.
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