“While Mrs. Fiorina wasn’t responsible for the accounting fraud — she was never accused of being involved in any financial shenanigans — she did work with, and helped support, some of the employees who came under legal scrutiny for acts that took place after she left.”
So if some of your employees are crooks, let’s make you look guilty by association.
This writer attempts to do his best to drag her name thru the mud while hoping the reader doesn’t catch the truth that he’s forced to admit.
When you’re the boss you bear the responsibility for what your underlings do. Whether you are aware of it or not (and it strains credulity to think that she knew absolutely nothing).