RAMPANT CORRUPTION AT WALMART/SAM'S CLUB IN CALIFORNIA

The purpose of this article is to demand that the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) conduct an investigation into the alleged corruption of Walmart/Sam's Club. Who is protecting the rights of the stockholders at Walmart /Sam's Club ? This article will be published in several parts, in order to expose the daily corruption at the world’s largest retailer. We will profile the company officers engaged in several specific acts of the violation of numerous State and Federal laws; some may actually have crossed the threshold of criminality. Our sources come from the personal testimony of  honest and respectful managers/whistleblowers who have grown tired of the status quo of corruption at local clubs, and are speaking out to expose it publicly.

Walmart hired a former Trump DOJ official who formerly "oversaw" criminal foreign bribery enforcement. This was at the same time Trump's DOJ decided NOT to prosecute Walmart for criminal foreign bribery allegations on three continents. The revolving door spins; Corporate crime pays. 

John Scudder is Senior Vice President and U.S. Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer. He leads the company's multi-disciplinary ethics and compliance program and team for Walmart U.S. and Sam's Club. 

Sam’s Club (NYSE symbol: WMT) a division of Walmart Inc., is a warehouse club with 597 locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Its Headquarters is located in Bentonville, Arkansas. Sam's Club employs more than 10,000 employees. Kathryn McLay is Chief Executive Officer at Sam's Club.

Walmart/Sam's Club has set up a complaint hotline,  known as Global Ethics and Open Door for Employee/Associates to report suspected unlawful activities that concern them,. However, it is the contention of over 90% of the employees, many of whom are victims, and other Associates, who are convinced that the Sam’s Club/Walmart complaint system to report questionable behavior by management, is designed to cover up and shield the bad actors from being held accountable for their corruption, violations and abuse of associates.

 

This company has a long and sordid history of employment-related lawsuits from present and former workers. The complaints of State and Federal Labor law violations appear in hundreds of court case filings, that read like a broken record. Sam’s Club, the retail warehouse chain owned by Walmart, failed to pay thousands of workers for time spent waiting for the stores to close, in violation of California law, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court in Los Angeles, entitled Carlos Sanchez vs. Sams West, Inc.

 (https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/SanchezvSamsWestIncaArkansascorporationdbaSamsClubDocketNo221cv05/1?1647911641)

We have found that this is not the only litigation against Sam's Club in California as there are many more in different local jurisdictions throughout the state, all appearing to be labor law related, including age discrimination, harassment, and retaliation for reporting to and exposing corrupt management.The company's regional division in California, which seems to generate the most lawsuits and complaints is under the leadership of 28-year tenured employee Market Manager Brenda Caldera. As the manager at one of the Los Angeles area Sam's Club, located in El Monte, Ms. Caldera has been accused of violating numerous state and labor laws in several court filings. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendamcaldera/recent-activity/ ) She manages and operates clubs in her district as her own mom and pop establishments, hiring the worst of the worst managers and supervisors off the streets, some with zero retail or work experience. Some like a 21 year old Saraeva Morales, with no work experience, and who frequently uses racial slurs about other races, was promoted to supervisor at Sam’s Club Number 6609 at Palm Desert California, by Ms. Caldera and her corrupt managers.

Walmart/Sam's Club investors and stockholders would be astonished to learn this is the type of person according to her Facebook page posting of February 3, 2022 is the person in charge of $10 Million worth of inventory at that club. Most employee associates have complained to Sam's Club. about the matter. The fact that this individual was chosen by Brenda Caldera to be a supervisor is a disgrace to all the hardworking associates with over 16 years on the job. See her 2022 Facebook page below with multiple racial slurs in the posting. 

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Saraeva Morales-Villa

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Sam’s newest Supervisor 

Saraeva Morales-Villa

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Intro

supervisor at Sam's Club

Studies at College of the Desert

Lives in Coachella, California

From Los Angeles, California

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Friends

160 friends

Ailyn Rios

Emily Avina

Adrian Villarreal

Lizzy Murguia

Adriana Montaño

Malia Guebara

Lucy Valencia

Julia Weems

This is part one of several parts of the story that this blog will be covering in the future. In our next part, we will profile additional corrupt managers at several clubs, their program of manipulation and deception, whereby they  set up associates they consider to be whistleblowers and cooperators. Global ethics officers who look the other way while employees' corrupt activities pose a financial risk to stockholders and other employees, can be liable for civil damages, for regulatory action, and for any crime that they may commit while on duty. It appears that a number of state and federal agencies have taken a major interest into the alleged crimes and daily labor law violations at Sam's Club; Stay tuned.