Sherron Watkins, the plainspoken former vice president whom Congress anointed as a whistleblower after the company’s collapse, repeated much of what she said then: Enron needed to come...
Sherron Watkins is a leadership and ethics advocate and is known as the Enron whistleblower. She is an internationally recognized speaker on the topics of ethics, corporate governance...
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WASHINGTON - Enron's in-house lawyers asked for outside legal advice to spell out the trouble they faced if they fired whistleblower Sherron Watkins, a House investigator said yesterday. "It tells...
What the what? Steve sat down for an interview with Sherron Watkins, the whistleblower at the heart of the Enron scandal, to get the whole scoop on what led up to her reporting the crimes, her life...
Sherron Watkins exposed corporate misconduct in the infamous Enron scandal paving the way for the enactment of the SOX corporate reform law. ; Sherron Watkins is the Enron vice president who wrote a letter to chairman Kenneth Lay in the summer of 2001 warning him that the company’s methods of accounting were improper. ; In recognition of her whistleblowing, Watkins (along with Coleen Rowley and Cynthia Cooper) was named Time Persons of the Year in 2002.
Sherron Watkins was raised in a town of 6,000 people, Tomball, Texas. A town where she was surrounded by adults who believed their actions mattered. It was interesting, Watkins noted, that the three female whistleblowers on the Time cover of December 2002 , all came from small towns. In Tomball, when something needed to be done, the townspeople took action and did it. Your actions mattered, and the feeling was that “we are all in this together.” Watkins has always carried that philosophy from her small town with her. ...
Another famous whistleblower is Sherron Watkins, a former Enron employee, who shed light on the company's fraudulent accounting practices. As a result, Enron ceased operations and brought...
The name "Enron" is practically synonymous with corporate fraud. With thousands of lost jobs and enough economic heft to shake the stock market for years, the scandal was monumental, to say the least. At the heart of that scandal was Sherron Watkins, Enron's VP of corporate development, who blew the whistle on the company's financial crimes. At the SOX Summit 2020, the SOX & Internal Controls Professionals Group was lucky enough to interview Sherron and hear her story firsthand. Keep reading for...
The Enron employee who first challenged bosses about fraud at the firm says she feels Ken Lay's death has cheated the US people of justice. ; Lay, Enron's former chairman, died in July, just weeks after he and fellow executive Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty of orchestrating a massive fraud at the failed energy business. ; "There was a sense here in the US that justice was robbed," Ms Watkins says in BBC Radio 4's The Choice programme.