You kind of figured this one would get ugly. From a report in today’s Wall Street Journal:

 

Fired Wal-Mart Stores Inc. marketing executive Julie Roehm took aim at the retailer’s chief executive and other senior executives, claiming they skirted its ethics policy, accepting travel, concert tickets and preferential prices on yachts and jewelry.

 

Ms. Roehm contends that Chief Executive H. Lee Scott Jr. and his family have close ties to financier Irwin Jacobs, whose companies provide services and products to Wal-Mart, according to her filing in U.S. District Court, Detroit. She alleged their ties go “beyond a business relationship” that Wal-Mart’s ethics policies dictate. Mr. Jacobs, reached today, denied any favoritism.

The court filing is the latest twist in a war of words between the high-profile advertising executive and the world’s largest retailer. In March, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart described what it said were suggestive personal emails and cited unnamed co-workers describing an admission of an affair between Ms. Roehm and a subordinate, former Vice President Sean Womack.