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Walmart Fires VP in Tech for Taking Daily Kickbacks Starting from $30K


Walmart fired Global Tech VP for daily kickbacks up to $120K from contractors, terminating 1,200 workers overnight amid corruption crackdown.

The mass termination wasn't the result of budget cuts or strategic pivots—it was the fallout from a corruption scheme that reached into the highest echelons of Walmart's Global Tech division. It illuminates a shadowy economy of influence-peddling that has metastasized throughout the technology sector's contingent workforce infrastructure, creating systemic vulnerabilities that industry observers suggest could trigger widespread operational disruptions across corporate America. The rapid expansion of technology organizations has consistently outpaced the development of robust third-party risk management protocols, creating what compliance experts describe as "controls debt"—the accumulation of regulatory and operational vulnerabilities that eventually demand dramatic remediation.

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