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The woman fired as head of Wal-Mart’s (WMT) marketing operations, allegedly for having an affair with an employee and accepting gifts from suppliers, claims that the WMT CEO got his son a job with a supplier.. Julie Roehm also claims that the chief executive got special deals on yachts and a diamond due to a "preferential relationship."

Included in the allegations, part of a court filing, is the claim that several Wal-Mart executives had affairs with subordinates.

To a large extent the accusations miss the point, If all of these executives have been messing around, Wal-Mart should dismiss them, even if it means that the company loses its CEO.

While Ms. Roehm claims that the charges that caused her firing are not true, she has certainly not proved that. At the risk of sounding like a tin horn preacher, two wrongs do not make a right.

Wal-Mart remains it own worst enemy. There was surely some way to let Ms. Roehm go without the public fighting.

But, the idea of being subtle is not in the Wal-Mart DNA

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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