That unnamed person, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, was Chandra Holt: a retail-executive-turned-entrepreneur, who launched her own coffee brand, Incredibrew, earlier this year.

Kohl's filing revealed that the vendor in question had secured a multimillion-dollar consulting contract with unusually favorable terms.

Chandra Holt, once considered one of the most promising executives in American retail, is now at the center of a corporate scandal involving her former Walmart colleague, and reported former romantic partner,