"We've taken all the right steps to prevent it happening again," he said. "It was a mistake but we are very sure that it was a unique event.
A mistake? Sorry, how is a pre-planned hooker party for your best sales-people (presumably male in this case) a mistake? Surely that sort of mistake takes a lot of mistaken and deliberate planning and effort.
It would have been far more genuine for them to have said 'misguided'.
