PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: … Members of Hershey’s boards have spent millions of dollars investigating themselves over possible conflicts of interest as they have also indulged in limo rides and costly travel and reaped millions in board compensation.
[Mark] Pacella’s approach – and one backed by five elected or appointed attorneys general over him since 2000 – has been to correct wrongdoing on the Hershey boards through negotiated settlements as opposed to court actions seeking more drastic consequences.
But those deals in 2013 and 2003, critics say, lacked hard-and-fast penalties on the politically powerful charity, leading to more scandals… (more)
