No. They agreed to pay an 11 million dollar fine. And now they are fighting a lawsuit filed by the people they hired:
"Plaintiffs lawyers in a federal class-action suit in Newark, N.J., challenging the labor practices of the world's biggest corporation, Wal-Mart, think they've got a fighting chance, now that they hold the fruits of a federal criminal probe.
"Affidavit testimony from an immigration investigation of Wal-Mart, they say, shows that two senior executives knew the company's cleaning contractors employed illegal aliens across the country -- the very scienter the plaintiffs need to prove their case.
"This document demonstrates very clearly that Wal-Mart executives knew of the operations of these subcontractors and were very, very much in agreement with the situation," says Gilberto Garcia, of Garcia & Kricko in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., one of the plaintiffs' lawyers in Zavala v. Wal-Mart, 03-5309.
"The suit charges that the contractors routinely hired illegal immigrants from Mexico and Eastern Europe to work seven days a week, housed them in squalid quarters, paid them less than minimum wage and even locked them in Wal-Mart stores at night."
You're right, I was wrong. I was thinking of Tyson, whose executives were prosecuted and acquitted.