The leadership of Mercury Public Affairs is emphasizing that it does not condone or tolerate unethical behavior just days after it fired a junior staffer for going undercover at a group critical of client Wal-Mart.
Last week, a 23-year-old associate at Mercury was caught posing as a student reporter at a closed press conference held by labor activists opposed to a store in Los Angeles' Chinatown district. Wal-Mart hired Mercury earlier this year to help it obtain a building permit ...