EXTRACT: The elusive firm Hakluyt–founded by former MI6 operatives and legendary for doing business over port and cigars in London’s Tony White’s club–has also seen its share of lawsuits. Shell Oil and EADS , the company that brought us the Airbus A380, are said to be among its most loyal clients.
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By Ilana Ozernoy
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Post date: 03.13.07
Wal-Mart gets lots of bad press, but usually it’s about how the company treats wage laborers, not about how it treats the press. Yet, last week, CEO H. Lee Scott found himself calling an executive at The New York Times to apologize for having spied on their employees. In an effort to ferret out the source of a leak of embarrassing company memos, a Wal-Mart employee apparently intercepted text messages and telephone calls of other employees. Now, FBI investigators are on the case, and the Wal-Mart employee caught snooping was sacked (which may just be a token measure making him Wal-Mart’s Lynndie England). If this latest fiasco is anything like what happened at Hewlett-Packard last year–when Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned after it came to light that she hired spies to investigate a boardroom leak to the press–more heads are sure to roll. read more
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